SPRING 2004 HIGHLIGHTS | Follow links for more information
and be sure to visit www.creative-capital.org
SPRING 2004 HIGHLIGHTS | Follow links for more information
and be sure to visit www.creative-capital.org
Creative Capital News and Events: |
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Creative
Capital received more than 3,000 Inquiry Forms for 2004 grants in Visual
Arts and Film/Video.
The deadline for completed Inquiry Forms was March 15, 2004;
those applicants whose proposals are selected will be invited
to submit a full application in June. |
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CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANTEES are busy as ever, with exhibits and performances scheduled throughout the country this spring. For a full listing, be sure to visit the Creative Capital Channel Arts Calendar. The picture at left is froma 1971 news clipping about Lisa Kron's mother, the subject of Kron's Well, presented by the Public Theater in New York from March 16 - April 18. |
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Congratulations to Creative Capital Film/Video grantee Sam Green, whose film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This feature-length documentary film (co-directed with Bill Siegel) follows the rise and fall of the Weather Underground - a group of several hundred young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the American government during the late 1960s and 70s. [ Learn more about The Weather Underground ] |
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May 2004, Creative Capital grantees Critical Art Ensemble,
Tana Hargest, William Pope.L, subRosa, and The Yes Men (®™ark) will participate in The Interventionists:
Art in the Social Sphere at the Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams, Massachusetts.
The Interventionists explores the work of contemporary artists
who have utilized the strategies of art to engage non-art audiences.
In large part, these strategies are influenced by the political
art of the 1980s. |
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NEW IN THE ARTIST'S TOOLBOX: Creative Capital's Artist Toolbox is intended to serve the type of artists who might apply to Creative Capital for funding, and is an annotated collection of career-resource sites. One of our newest additions is GoTour.org <http://www.gotour.org>, a resource for independent performing artists, arts administrators, and audiences nationwide, a comprehensive resource for touring artists. [ Browse the Artists Toolbox ] |
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WEBCASTS are always being added to the Creative Capital Channel, including video, audio, and e-art. Come view Suzan Pitt's story of a woman's journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal Joy Street, or see Todd Downing's Jeffrey's Hollywood Screen Trick, a dark comedy that satirizes gay romantic comedies using fifty anatomically-exceptional "Billy dolls" in stop-motion animation. [Browse Webcasts] |
Adam Cohen and Beverly McIver were recently awarded grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
The CD of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s Creative Capital project In What Language was favorably reviewed in the March 18 issue of Rolling Stone. Vijay’s solo album was also reviewed in the same issue.
George Legrady and Lynne Yamamoto have been awarded commissions to create permanent works for the new Central Public Library in Seattle. Lynn has also been shortlisted for a commission for the new building housing Columbia University's School of Social Work. Jason Salavon has been offered a commission for the new U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in the Suitland Federal Center, Virginia.