Deadline: 4 April 2024
For their 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms.
The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.
Creative Capital provides grants to support the creation of groundbreaking art by innovative and adventurous artists across the country. Their transformative giving approach is built on the principle that artists need funding as well as networks and professional services in order to build long-term sustainable projects and careers. Awardees have access to direct project funding of varying amounts, artist services, and a community of fellow awardees and other professionals who may provide additional support for the project. They encourage a spirit of mutual generosity among their awardees and seek to foster exchange through their online, regional, national, and international gatherings. Over the course of a funded project, they partner with each artist to help define critical moments of development and determine how to best meet their goals.
Grants are awarded via a democratic, national, open call, external review process. Their goal is to fund individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.
Categories
- Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, performance art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged, and/or sustainable visual art-based practices
- Performing Arts: including dance, theater (new theatrical work, playwriting), jazz, music, opera, singing, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performing arts-based practices
- Film/Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices
- Technology: including augmented reality/virtual reality, bio art, data visualization, hardware, software, digital media, internet art, and socially engaged and/or sustainable technology-based practices
- Literature: including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and socially engaged and/or sustainable literature-based practices
Funding Information
- Award amounts range from $15,000 up to $50,000 per project. Creative Capital grants are structured so that the artist(s) may draw down the funds over a multi-year period. Creative Capital plans to award approximately 50 individual artists across a range of disciplines, demographics, and geographic locations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artist Eligibility
- US citizen, permanent legal resident, O-1 visa holder, or Tribal ID holder
- At least 25 years old by April 4, 2024
- Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice
- Applicant may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program
- May not apply to the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program in the same year
- May not have previously received a Creative Capital Award
- May not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year
- Projects are not eligible if the main purpose is:
- Promotional
- To fund ongoing operations of an existing business
- The curation or documentation of existing work.
For more information, visit Creative Capital.
