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It’s my pleasure to introduce the summer with what else but
scores of stories about Creative Capital and our artists. I’m
thrilled to report that 2,535 artists from across the country have
submitted proposals for the 2007 grants in visual arts and film/video,
many of whom have recently advanced to the application phase!
In this issue, find out about our recent trip to Los Angeles where
Creative Capital artists, funders and staff celebrated in style;
catch up on grantee Liz Cohen’s project Bodywork
, which may be motoring to a museum near you; and get the scoop
on all the art happening in Europe as Creative Capital artists break
out their passports for summer.
Welcome to our new readers and new supporters, including the Muriel
Pollia Foundation in Los Angeles. Keep cool, happy travels, and
look forward to a new batch of stories come September.
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THE SINGULAR CHRIS DOYLE:
45 ARTISTS AND 50,000 BEDS COME TOGETHER
Wonder what Connecticut’s defining contemporary art spaces all
share in common? It’s Chris Doyle. When curators
from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield), Real Art Ways
(Hartford) and Artspace (New Haven) conceived of a first-ever, joint
exhibition to span their institutions for summer 2007, they turned
to Creative Capital to find their artist. Flash forward two years:
visual arts grantee Chris Doyle is preparing to thrice unveil his
ambitious collaboration 50,000 Beds in simultaneous exhibitions
across the state.
Doyle has enlisted forty-five artists—nine of whom are fellow
Creative Capital grantees: Liz Cohen, Jacqueline
Goss, Brent Green, Braden King,
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Dread Scott,
Chris Wilcha and Marina Zurkow—to
film forty-five short videos, each set in a different Connecticut
hotel room. The videos express the quiet intrigue of hotel rooms,
the tension between a functional veneer and untold stories brimming
beneath the surface.
The potential to bring people together by telling stories is a long-running
thread of Doyle’s public art practice. For his Creative Capital-supported
project Leap (2000), he projected the images of forty-two
skyward-jumping New Yorkers onto the façades of two Columbus
Circle buildings.
With 50,000 Beds, these connections extend beyond the art
and into Doyle and his collaborators’ lives as working artists.
Take his word for it: "The project ended up helping me to build
a community, and I think that's a big part of the Creative Capital
mission as well—the idea that you can make your work on an individual
basis but you can also forge a community in the process. The truth
is without Creative Capital, I probably would know less than half
the artists I do, and couldn't have made something of this scope without
approaching strangers on the street."
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GRANTEE WORK CROSSES THE ATLANTIC EN MASSE THIS SUMMER
Creative Capital is well represented at this year’s Venice Biennale
with work by Luca Buvoli in both the American and
Irish Pavilions, plus an outdoor installation by Hasan Elahi
in the exhibition Migration Addicts. Meanwhile, June marks the European
premiere of Zoe Leonard’s Creative Capital-supported
project Analogue at Documenta 12 in Kassel, and don’t
miss Laura Carton at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in
Berlin; Mark Newport at Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum
in Bergen, Norway; and Marie Sester at Laboral in
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JENNIFER FOX'S FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN
SCREENING AT FILM FORUM
Opening July 4 for a two-week run at Film Forum in New York, Jennifer
Fox's Creative Capital-supported film Flying: Confessions
of a Free Woman is a 6-hour long documentary in which Fox contrasts
her own intercontinental romances with portraits of disparate sexual
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SUSAN SIMPSON TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE IN LOS ANGELES
In June, Susan Simpson’s Creative Capital-supported
project Lead Feet and Nothing Upstairs premieres at the
Manual Archive micro-theater in Los Angeles. A critical history
of the simulated body, Lead Feet is a puppet work that
collides the different generations of tools and technologies used
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LIZ COHEN KEEPS THE HEAT
Recently featured in a Fast Company magazine article about
Creative Capital, Liz Cohen’s project Bodywork—for
which she has transformed an East German auto into an American lowrider,
and herself into both a bonafide mechanic and bikini model—is
included in Fuori Uso 2006 at Galeria Noua and the National Museum
of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, on view through July. August burns
on with two more exhibitions of Cohen’s Creative Capital-supported
project, at Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco and the Center for
Contemporary Art in Sante Fe. |
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GRANTEES ACROSS DISCIPLINES NAB MAJOR AWARDS
Creative Capital grantees enjoyed a sweep of some of the most prestigious
honors in the arts this season: Karyn Olivier and
Joe Goode both received Guggenheim Fellowship Awards;
the American Academy in Rome presented their annual Rome Prize to
both Lead Pencil Studio (Dan Mihalyo and Annie
Han) and Caveh Zahedi; Mason Bates
received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2007 Award
for Music; Christian Hawkey has been selected for
the German Academic Exchange Service’s 2008 Berlin artist program
(DAAD award); and the winner of CalArts’ $75,000 Alpert Award
in Film/Video is grantee Jacqueline Goss, the third
consecutive Creative Capital Film/Video honoree (succeeding Jem
Cohen, 2005 and Bill Morrison, 2006). Our
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FRIENDS OF CREATIVE CAPITAL CELEBRATE IN CALIFORNIA
On May 3, board member Jeffrey Soros hosted a celebration
of Creative Capital’s California grantees and funders at their home
in Los Angeles. Grantees Sam Green, Ruben Ochoa,
and Kristina Wong helped set the tone for the evening with
their remarks about how their relationship with Creative Capital has helped
deepen their creative projects, and Artemio Rodriguez signed
copies of his book AMERICAN DREAM for guests. In addition to honoring long-time
California funders—including William K. Bowes, Peter
Norton, Jeffrey & Catharine Soros, Lucy
& Isadore B. Adelman Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation,
and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation—Creative
Capital was pleased to introduce one of its newest funders, The
Muriel Pollia Foundation.
SUZI CORDISH AND JOHN WATERS
CO-HOST BALTIMORE DINNER
Fresh from the west coast, on May 22 Creative Capital was introduced to
Baltimore arts leaders at a dinner hosted by board member Suzi Cordish at
her home. The evening was co-hosted by legendary local John Waters who applauded
Creative Capital’s commitment to daring art
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM LAUNCHES NEW WORKSHOP
This spring Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP)
successfully piloted a new advanced-level workshop in Durham, North Carolina
with the North Carolina Arts Council. The workshop enrolled
twenty North Carolina alumni of past PDP workshops for a curriculum including
new material on promoting work in the digital age and specialized advice
for literary artists, as well as advanced strategic planning and fundraising
for all participants.
PDP will present its first international workshop with BritDoc in London,
July 22–24. The workshop will bring together twenty UK-based filmmakers
for training led by PDP's team of strategic planning, marketing and public
relations consultants, plus a specialized fundraising consultant based in
the UK.
PDP has now served nearly 1500 artists across the country, partnering with
thirty-four different organizations in twenty-seven communities
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CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
COMING SOON: MAP FUND GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT
The MAP Fund held its
2007 grants cycle panels in June. Awards to forty projects for new work
in the disciplines of Dance, Theater, and New Music Composition will be
announced in July.
ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM 2007 GUIDELINES
NOW AVAILABLE
The 2007 application for the Creative
Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program will be
open from August 6 to September 12, 2007. For more information about the
program now in its second year and for complete guidelines visit artswriters.org
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