Support Artists Creating New Work

Your tax-deductible gift directly supports artists creating new work and building sustainable practices. With philanthropic partners like you, Creative Capital can continue to identify and support artists at catalytic moments in their careers via our democratic, open call awards process. Your support empowers more artists with: 

  • Creative Capital Awards provide each artist with an unrestricted project grant up to $50,000, plus bespoke professional services, and community-building opportunities.
  • State of the Art Prizes will provide an unrestricted grant of $10,000 to one artist in every U.S.state and territory.
  • Support Educational Resources for Artists
    • Creative Capital Curriculum, used by more than 15,000 artists in 106 countries, with free, evergreen, professional tools on how to craft an artist statement, hone an elevator pitch, and design a project budget. 
    • Artist Opportunities Listings to help our 275,000 subscribers save time in applying to other grants, fellowships, residencies, or jobs.

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Image: Dyani White Hawk in her studio. Courtesy of the artist.

Supporter Benefits

Creative Capital relies on donations from individuals to support our awards, professional development curriculum, and bespoke services to nurture the voices of artists who are pushing formal, conceptual, and social boundaries through their practices. Your tax-deductible donation underwrites our purpose, elevating artists’ achievements and bringing new understanding to public audiences around the world.

Supporter benefits may include:

  • Recognition in our Impact Report and on our online support page
  • Invitations to Creative Capital Awardee regional project premieres, including performances, exhibitions, film screenings, and book launches
  • Priority access to special events, including the Creative Capital Carnival Awardee Dinner and Project Presentations, Artist Benefit + Banquet, and patron trips

Contact Emily Gerard at [email protected] or (212) 598-9900 x223 to learn about the opportunities and benefits for having major impact. For gifts of $10,000 or more, please mail a check or send a wire transfer (to bypass credit-card fees). For questions or for wire instructions, write to: [email protected].

Image: Nicole Fleetwood, Erin Gilbert, Legacy Russell at the 2023 Artist Benefit + Banquet. BFA/ Deonté Lee.

Advisory Council

Creative Capital’s Advisory Council is a group of industry leaders, specialists, artists, and philanthropists. The Advisory Council expands global awareness of the Creative Capital mission, supports our goals, and helps our awardees build thriving artistic practices.

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Click “inquire” to send us an email and learn more about applying to the Advisory Council.

Member Premiums

  • Invitation to one annual meeting with cultural conversation by leading experts and academics
  • Invitations to Creative Capital Carnival, regional artist gatherings, patron trips, awardee project premieres, and other explorations
  • Advanced access to Creative Capital awards announcements, news, and events
  • Special listing on Creative Capital’s website and on other materials
Image: Creative Capital patrons visited the Venice Biennale in September 2024 to see the work of Jeffrey Gibson (2005 Awardee), the first Indigenous artist to represent the US.

Thank You, Supporters!

We are tremendously grateful to all of the generous people and institutions whose support helps to maintain the vitality, renown, and success of future generations of Creative Capital Awardees and their most groundbreaking work—thank you!

Image: June 2024 Creative Capital Carnival

Founding Supporter

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

$500,000+

Doris Duke Foundation
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

$50,000–499,999

Bloomberg Philanthropies
Reginald M. Browne
Isa Catto and Daniel Shaw, Catto Shaw Foundation
The Harry R. Halloran Jr. Charitable Trust
Public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham
Margaret Silva
Walder Foundation
Paige West

$10,000–49,999 

Cary Brown and Steven Epstein
The Linda Genereux and Timur Galen Family Fund
Elaine Goldman and John Benis
Agnes Gund
Tamar Guttman
Mariane Ibrahim
Emi Kolawole
Wanda Kownacki
Lyda Kuth
Melony and Adam Lewis Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation
Joseph V. Melillo
Grace Oh, Formation Association
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Corey M. Robinson
Michele Tortorelli and Thomas Kearns

$5,000–9,999

Edgar Arceneaux* in memory of Merc Marie Arceneaux
Sarah Arison
Hilary Bates and Jerome Simon
James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach
Jane Brown, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson
Paula Cooper Gallery
Sarah Duzyk
JiaJia Fei
Jane Gullong
Lisa Heller
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
Christine Kuan
Jessica Gaynelle Moss
Colleen A. Murphy
Kevin A. Pemberton
In Memory of Henry Leplin Rasof and Bernard Rasof
Marquise Stillwell
Supergoop!
Mickalene Thomas
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Gretchen Wagner
Kristina Wong*
X, A Google Company

$1,000–4,999

Alexandre Gallery
Laura Bardier, James Howell Foundation
The Alben F. Bates and Clara G. Bates Foundation
Sunny Bates
Charlotte Eyerman
Kristina Horn-Wright
Aunt Karen’s Farm
Colleen Keegan, The Muriel Pollia Foundation
KJB Images
Jill and Peter Kraus
Ruby Lerner
Meg Miles

Aliza Nisenbaum*
Scott “Sourdough” Power, Creator, NotRealArt.com
Sekka Scher
Joan Shigekawa
Catharine R. Stimpson

$250–999

Anonymous (3)
Amelia Cline
Michelle Coffey
Comcast
S. David Deitcher
Gina Duncan
Hasan Elahi*
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Kris From
Give Lively Foundation
Robby Gordon in honor of Grace Oh
Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Marjorie Heins
Jordan Huelskamp
Lewis Hyde
Helen Kauder
Allen Kleinman
Margaret Lawrence
Meg Malloy
KC Maurer
National Philanthropic Trust
Kristen K. O’Connor
Sheryl Oring*
Anne Patterson*
Lisa Philp
James Schamus
Ira Silverberg
Bill and Alison Washabaugh
Rosie Williams
Scott Wilson and Lucy Cummings

*Creative Capital Awardee
Listings include contributions from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.

Bow Ty and Liz Ferrer (2023 Creative Capital Awardees) with Brian Fernandes-Halloran and Carles Garcia O'Dowd at Carnival 2023. Deonté Lee/BFA.com
Martha Redbone, Eisa Davis, and Angela Mattox at Carnival 2024. Matt Borkowski/BFA.com.
Rebecca Snedeker, Annie Han, and Alejandro Durán at Carnival 2022. Photo by Deonté Lee/BFA.
Gia Kuan and Advisory Council Member JiaJia Fei at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
2022 Creative Capital Awardees in front of the Village East Cinema marquee.
Christine Kuan, Anicka Yi (2023 Literature Awardee), and Sherrill Roland (2021 Visual Arts Awardee) at the 2023 Artist Benefit + Banquet. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Molaundo Jones, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, and Kristina Wong at Carnival 2023.
2023 Creative Capital Awardees at Carnival 2023, NYC.
Lorraine O’Grady (2015 Visual Arts Awardee) with Board Members Colleen Jennings-Roggensack and Dr. Cheryl Finley at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago EXPO, 2024.
Aliza Shvarts, Allison Glenn, and Christine Kuan Carnival 2023. Deonté Lee/BFA.com.
Chris Doyle (2000 Visual Arts Awardee) and Board Member Isa Catto at the 2022 inaugural Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
Dancing on the Circle Line at Carnival 2023. Deonté Lee/BFA.com.
Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
Board Member Grace Oh and John Chan at the 2023 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Times Square EDITION. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Artists settling in for the project screening inside the ornate Village East Cinema theater. Photo by Deonté Lee/BFA.
Board Vice Chair Colleen Jennings-Roggensack with Stephen Reily at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
2023 Benefit Co Chair Kimberly Drew and Thebe Magugu at Times Square EDITION. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Nicole Fleetwood, Shelley Fox Aarons, Phil Aarons and Emily Gerard at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
Board Chair Reginald M. Browne speaking at the 2024 Carnival Awardee Dinner. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Allison Glenn with Dean Kymberly Pinder and Bernard Lumpkin at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.