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Welcome back from summer travels, everyone! Fall is here and so
is a new season of news from Creative Capital. And it shouldn’t
be any surprise that we’re busier than ever.
The big buzz from grantmaking is the selection of the 122 visual
arts and 134 film/video finalists that will proceed to panels in
October and November. These finalists represent 33 states in total,
and you’ll get to know some of them much better when they
are announced as our new grantees this winter.
Inside, learn what we did on our summer vacation, and what’s
coming up next, including a New Mexico exhibition by Professional
Development Program workshop graduates, our film and video grantees
at the New York Film Festival, and performances and exhibitions
abound from Portland to Finland!
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LISA BIELAWA AND SUSAN NARUCKI STAGE A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
While wandering the streets of a busy city, ever tune out—or
tune in—and listen to the urban symphony of traffic, daily
chores and overheard conversations? That’s the idea behind
composer Lisa Bielawa and soprano Susan
Narucki’s Chance Encounter, premiered outside
the Seward Park Library in lower Manhattan on September 28. The
two have set fragments of conversations collected over the past
year to music, and arranged a team of musicians to bring their score
to life across the neighborhood from every random corner. As Bielawa
says, “music can sometimes be a little ghettoized among the
arts. . . it’s really great to enter a community of artists
from other disciplines and break out of the music community—and
this project is challenging people in the music community as well.”
Bielawa and Narucki are both veterans of Carnegie Hall—what
Bielawa
describes as a very "special interest audience." With
Creative Capital's support, the venerable musicians take their music
down from ivory tower and into the city that supports it. Bielawa
continues that, in doing so, the work gains more commerce, more
real engagement and exchange with audiences. The duo's Creative
Capital experience has been all about exchange—exchanging
ideas, sharing work, forging new relationships. It was at the Retreat
that they met fellow grantee Sheryl Oring, who has come onboard
Chance Encounter as a photographer to archive the performance.
And after years of preparation, the curtain has risen. "We
partnered with Creative Capital and it has been exactly a perfect
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RADIOHOLE PREPARES FOR ANOTHER FLUKE
Radiohole is back at it again, eyes painted shut
for an encore, international tour of their 2006 Creative Capital-supported
performance Fluke, a wildly random and rigorous stage adaptation
of Moby-Dick. The show kicks off at The Collapsable Hole
in Brooklyn, October 4–7, and from there travels to the Copenhagen
PSK Festival, November 22–25; On The Boards in Seattle, January
10–13, 2008; and next April to the DonauFestival in Krems, Austria. |
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A VIEW FROM LINCOLN CENTER
Three Creative Capital Grantees are featured in the 45th annual
New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant-Garde program
at Lincoln Center in New York, October 6 & 7. The 11th installment
of this pivotal experimental film and video round-up features new
works by Peggy Ahwesh and Lewis Klahr,
as well as Jacqueline Goss’ Creative Capital-supported
film Stranger Comes to Town. |
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KEEPING THE WORLD STRANGE & FREE
As the legal saga of Creative Capital grantee Steve Kurtz
of the Critical Art Ensemble wages on, wider audiences
learn of his ongoing travails with the FBI. Lynn Hershman Leeson’s
new feature documentary on these events, and preparations for Kurtz’
impending trial, Strange Culture, has drawn massive praise
at film festivals and community screenings. Having screened theatrically
in over fifteen cities, Strange Culture has qualified for Academy
Awards consideration, and following a special screening on October
1 at MoMA, the film will have its first theatrical run at Cinema
Village in Manhattan, October 5–18. www.strangeculture.net
and www.caedefensefund.org. |
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GRANTEE ACCOLADES ABOUND FROM FELLOWSHIPS TO HOT LISTS
Over a busy summer, Creative Capital grantees from all disciplines
were tapped for awards from leading arts and cultural organizations.
Danny Hoch worked on his play A Word Is Born
at his Sundance Theatre Institute residency; The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation supported Amelia Rudolph’s
Project Bandaloop through a three-year, $90,000 grant; Jeffrey
Allen had a residency on the island of Lamu in Kenya, where
he worked on his novel Song of the Shank; OUT Magazine
named James Bidgood number 9 on their annual Hot
List; and Natalia Almada, Jake Mahaffy and
Chel White all received Rockefeller Foundation Renew
Media Awards. |
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CREATIVE CAPITAL MAKES A SPLASH IN THE PRESS
On the heels of a recent profile in the Next section of business
innovation magazine Fast Company, Creative Capital received a story
in the indispensable international finance newspaper the Financial Times.
The story examines the unique method of venture philanthropy support pioneered
by Creative Capital. And as Creative Capital artists continue to make waves
across the country, articles have sprouted all over, including a piece on
Creative Capital grantees in the Pacific Northwest in Seattle’s The
Stranger, and a cover story about Chris Doyle’s behemoth exhibition
50,000 Beds that ran in Connecticut papers syndicated throughout
the state.
NEW MEXICO ARTISTS ONCE AGAIN LOOSELY JOINED BY CREATIVE CAPITAL
Santa Fe Art Institute Director Diane Karp has curated an exhibition entitled
Loosely Joined: New Mexico Artists from Creative Capital’s Professional
Development Program, which opens at 516 Arts in Albuquerque on November
3. The show is an unofficial epilogue to the 2006 Professional Development
Program workshop held at the Santa Fe Art Institute, rejoining all 23 of
the local artists who participated in that workshop and illustrating the
momentum of organizing efforts within the New Mexico arts community.
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CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
MAP FUND 2007 GRANTS ANNOUNCED!
Selecting from more than 650 submissions, the Multi-Arts Production Fund
has awarded 40 grants ranging from $14,000 to $45,000 and totaling $1,000,000
to arts organizations in eleven states for the production of new works.
Learn more about the awards at www.mapfund.org.
ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM DRAWS MORE THAN 250 APPLICANTS
The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
closed their 2007 application on September 12 and drew more than 250 submissions
from writers nationwide. Now in its second year, the program will announce
finalists in November and convene panels in January before announcing the
new grantees in early 2008. For more information visit www.artswriters.org
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