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WINTER 2007 HIGHLIGHTS | Follow
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Creative Capital’s Highlights has a fresh new look
and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
In this issue we kick off the next round of grants in visual arts
and film/video with new program consultants, share news from grantees
premiering in Chicago, welcome the Muriel Pollia Foundation in Los
Angeles to our family of funders—and that’s just the
tip of the iceberg!
Get the full report on all the inspired and inspiring artists, events,
awards, and happenings you can expect to meet in Highlights, and
watch for future issues each winter, spring and fall.
Ruby Lerner
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CREATIVE GRANTEES
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The Animated Brent Green: At Sundance and Going
Solo in New York
Filmmaker Brent Green is the sort of guy who speaks enthusiastically
about the farm he lives on, alone, in Schuylkill County Pennsylvania.
And understandably so. It has to be where he finds all the materials
for his films—twigs, animal bones, fur. This is what he used
to make his stop-motion animated, Creative Capital-funded film Paulina
Hollers. The Appalachian folktale, which recently premiered at Sundance,
follows a mother’s struggles after her son is killed by a passing
car; unable to live with her own sadness, she commits suicide, joining
her son in Hell, then searches for a way for them to escape. It is
Green’s second time at Sundance, having screened an earlier
animation at last year’s festival.
Coinciding with Sundance was Green’s first solo show at New
York City’s Bellwether Gallery. When recently asked about it,
Green smiled sheepishly behind his round wire glasses, describing
the multiple video screens Paulina Hollers will be shown on, but when
he got to the part about a grandfather clock, his shoulders sprang
up. “I carved the clock by hand from oak and walnut,”
said Green excitedly and went on to say how it’s a prop from
the film and the show’s only object. Last year, Green met independent
film producer Scott Macaulay and fellow grantee Chris Doyle at the
Creative Capital Artist Retreat. Shortly thereafter, Macaulay put
Green in touch with representatives from Sundance, and Doyle arranged
introductions with Bellwether gallery, which gave Green a solo show
in January 2007.
www.nervousfilms.com
www.bellwethergallery.com
www.sundance.org
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Mickle Maher and Theater Oobleck's Premiere Performance
in Chicago
Whether you call Mickle Maher's play The Strangerer political satire
or lampoon, one thing’s certain: everyone’s calling it
funny. Premiering at the Chopin Theater in Chicago through March 25th,
Theater Oobleck's production of The Strangerer opened to glowing reviews
and previews from Time Out Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Public
Radio, and more. Read the reviews at Theater Oobleck |
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Radiohole at Collapsable Hole in Brooklyn Reviewed
It’s impossible to contain the ocean in one show, but Radiohole
comes very near to doing just that. Combining PEEK-A-BOO technology
with live performance, Radiohole reveals the Myriad Mysteries and
ushers in the Oceanic Times in Fluke.
The performance was recently reviewed in The New York Times, which
called it “a collage of enigmatic riffs on ‘Moby-Dick.’”
www.radiohole.com
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Lights, Camera, Opera and Art in Chicago
In February, Max King Cap’s new media opera God’s Punk
premieres at the Jackman Goldwasser Gallery at Hyde Park Arts Center
in Chicago. An exhibition for the senses, God’s Punk features
digital video, sculpture, drawing, and live performances. See it
now through April 8.
www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2007/02/gods_punk.php |
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In Case You Missed It: Premieres, Panels, and More at the
Sundance Film Festival
Park City was the site of two Creative Capital project premieres—Jennifer
Fox’s Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (Special Screenings)
and, as reported earlier, Brent Green’s Paulina Hollers (Animated
Shorts). More festival screenings included shorts by Sharon Lockhart
and James Fotopoulos, Steve Kurtz as the subject of the documentary
Strange Culture, and a score by M. Cera featured in Infinite Delay.
Chris Wilcha joined a panel about This American Life and watch for
the latest on Braden King’s project Here after participating
in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
www.sundance.org |
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CREATIVE NEWS
Six New Program Consultants Join Selection Team
This year, Creative Capital welcomes two teams of arts professionals who
will assist with the grants selection process. The consultant team for
visual arts is Romi Crawford, lead program consultant
and director of the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago; Lauri Firstenberg, director of
LAX Art in Los Angeles; and Gilbert Vicario, assistant curator of Latin
American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. For film/video, the
consultants are: Andrea Grover, lead program consultant
and director of Aurora Picture Show in Houston; Kelly DeVine,
former acquisitions executive for the Independent Film Channel (IFC),
currently artistic director for the Global Peace Film Festival and an
independent programmer based in Port Jefferson, New York; and Shari
Frilot, programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. Ms. Frilot
resides in Los Angeles.
Gifts from the East and the West: An $800,000 Gift from Doris
Duke and A $250,000 Grant Leads to Named Gift
In a tremendous show of support and recognition, longtime funder Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation recently increased its contribution from $350,000
to $800,000, to be paid out to Creative Capital over two years. The grant
will go toward the organization’s work with performing artists.
In addition, Creative Capital has been awarded $250,000 from the newly
established Los Angeles-based Muriel Pollia Foundation. The gift will
be distributed over five years and will fund the Muriel Pollia Award at
Creative Capital, providing two grantees from southern California full
access to Creative Capital’s financial and advisory services.
New Ways to Give: www.ChangingThePresent.org
In the spirit of being generous for a cause, the website ChangingThePresent.org
offers an alternative to gift giving as we know it. The site selected
Creative Capital to be a part of a program that matches shopping for gifts
with the work done by nonprofits. Now, gift givers going to the site can
choose issues they care most about and have the opportunity to make something
happen in that arena. Choose arts and culture and fund Creative Capital’s
work with artists directly. Personalize your gift by selecting what part
of the process interests you, or your gift recipient, most—from
artist coaching sessions to travel funds to project grants. To start giving,
visit www.changingthepresent.org.
10 Chances to Join a Workshop
In 2007, look for 10 weekend retreats, with six new partners, including
the first international workshop with Brit Doc in Oxford, England, to
be held by Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP).
This year PDP adds new topics to the docket, piloting a Verbal Communications
and Leadership Workshop with Kirby Tepper, performer/writer/speech coach,
and a module especially designed for Literary Artists with poet and literary
consultant Amy Holman.
In addition, PDP is working with longtime partner North Carolina Arts
Council (NCAC) to develop an Advanced Workshop for North Carolinian PDP
alumni. Sharing the impact of the program on the community, NCAC reports
many success stories from participants who have put into practice the
tools learned in the workshops, resulting in more artist visibility across
the state.
CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
has announced its first round of grants. Ranging from $8,500–$50,000,
the grants were selected by a national panel of distinguished art historians,
critics and editors. For names and descriptions of funded writers and
their projects, visit www.artswriters.org.
The Arts Writers Grant Program is a program of Creative Capital, supported
by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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