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SARAH MICHELSON's dance performance Dogs
will be performed at this years BAM
Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 18
– 21. Dogs was commissioned specifically for the unique
surroundings of BAM’s Harvey Theater. Several Creative Capital
alumni are also presenting work at the festival: CARL HANCOCK
RUX (Mycenaean), MEREDITH MONK (Impermanence),
SEKOU SUNDIATA (The 51st (Dream) State),
and VIJAY IYER & MIKE LADD, (Still Life with
Commentator: An Oratorio). The Festival runs from October 10
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PEGGY DIGGS premieres objects from her community-based
project WorkOut at the Broad
Street Ministry in Philadelphia. The exhibition is the culmination
of a collaboration with fifteen inmates at the maximum-security State
Correctional Institute in Graterford, Pennsylvania, where Diggs and
the inmates spent time developing innovative solutions for confined
living habitats. October 12 – 25 |
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BRENT GREEN presents his film Paulina Hollers,
a work-in-progress, at the Williams Auditorium at the Getty
Center in Los Angeles on October 7. The film will then be screened
at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
on November 20 and at the Wexner
Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio on November 21. All films
will be accompanied by live improvised soundtracks by Califone and
Brendan Canty.
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SOPHILINE CHEAM SHAPIRO's dance piece Revisited
has its world premiere at Vienna’s
Celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday. Commissioned by
New Crowned Hope Festival, Revisited is a Cambodian classical
dance based on Mozart’s Magic Flute, performed by
a company of professional classical Cambodian dancers. December
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LOCUST premieres mockumentary at On
the Boards in Seattle, Washington. The dance, video and music
collaboration is part documentary, part horror film and part rock
show featuring composer/musician Zeke Keeble and choreographer/performer
Amy O’Neal with dancer Elie Sandstrom and five performers. October
19 – 21 |
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FOUNDATION NEWS
Creative Capital in the News
Creative Capital’s distinct approach to working with artists was
recently recognized in the August 20 Los Angeles Times, the August 21
issue of New York Magazine and in an Associated Press article appearing
in the Chicago Tribune. The latter, published on August 7, also appeared
in the LA Times, U.S. News and World Report, Yahoo! Finance, and Forbes.com,
among others.
August
21: Bohemian Boot Camp (New York Magazine)
August
20: Creative Types Get a Bit of Business Schooling (LA Times)
August
2: Creative Financing for Struggling Artists (Associated Press)
www dot creative-capital dot org: An Exhibition of Creative
Capital Artists
For www dot creative-capital dot org, former program director
Ken Chu selected 19 Creative Capital artists and artist teams to present
an exhibition of their work at The
Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York City. The exhibition uses images
and texts of their projects, along with documentation, displayed on Sony
PlayStation Portables and freestanding wall panels. On view at the Cummings
Foundation beginning October 23.
Artist Retreat 2006
In August, Creative Capital held its Artist
Retreat for grantees at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
More than 200 grantees, consultants, and art professionals from across
the country met for a weekend of project
presentations, workshops, and consultations. For the artists funded this
year, the retreat marks the start of their “granteeship” which
offers them support services such as the initial grant, supplemental financial
awards, and professional development services.
Creative Capital Calendar
October 18: Executive Director Ruby Lerner to attend
POP!Tech conference in Camden, Maine
October 23, 2006–January 19, 2007: www dot creative-capital
dot org, an exhibition of Creative Capital grantees in conjunction
with the Nathan Cummings Foundation Opening reception October 26, 6 –
8 p.m.
November: Program consultants for 2006 Grants in Visual Arts and Film/Video
announced
GRANTEE NEWS
BAM Next Wave Festival
Sarah Michelson’s dance performance Dogs
will be performed at this year’s BAM Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, October 18 – 21. Dogs was commissioned
specifically for the unique surroundings of BAM’s Harvey Theater.
Several Creative Capital alumni are presenting work at this year’s
festival as well: Carl Hancock Rux (Mycenaean),
Meredith Monk (Impermanence), Sekou
Sundiata (The 51st (Dream) State), and Vijay
Iyer & Mike Ladd, (Still Life with Commentator: An Oratorio).
The Festival runs from October 10 – December 16.
At The Edge of Art
Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito’s collaboration, At The Edge of
Art (published by Thames and Hudson, 2006), is a comprehensive, if not
dizzying, survey of new art media featuring more than 50 artists and as
many as 500 color illustrations in 250 pages. Among the highlighted artists
are several Creative Capital grantees, including Golan Levin,
Natalie Bookchin, Eduardo Kac, Mark Napier, and more.
2005–06 SEASON BESSIE AWARDS
Jennifer Monson, Bebe Miller, and Yasuko
Yokoshi were recipients of the 2006 New York Dance and Performance
Awards (the Bessies). Monson won for her choreography of Bird Brain, her
continuing Creative Capital project, presented at New York City’s
Dance Theater Workshop, and Miller won for choreography of Landing/Place,
also performed at Dance Theater Workshop. Yokoshi won for What We When
We performed at Danspace Projects. Miller was also this year’s host
along with Stephen Petronio, at New York City’s Joyce Theater on
September 17.
http://www.danspaceproject.org/programs/bessies.html
Suzan Pitt’s animated film El Doctor began
broadcast on PBS stations in September. The New York Times calls
the film “visually compelling . . . punchy and often shocking. .
. in images borrowed from Mexican folk art, it tells the story of an elderly
doctor’s nightmarish final day on earth.” Pitt will have a
retrospective film screening at MoMA in New York City on November 20,
and First Run Features is releasing a DVD compilation of her films–El
Doctor, Joy Street, & Asparagus: The Wonderfully Strange and Surreal
Animation of Suzan Pitt. http://home.earthlink.net/~suzanpitt/
Jane D. Marsching is one of four finalists for The Institute of Contemporary
Art’s 2006 ICA Artist Prize Honoring Outstanding Boston Artists
for her project Arctic Listening Post. The finalists will be
shown in ICA’s new Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed building this
fall.
http://www.icaboston.org
http://www.janemarsching.com
John Jota Leaños’s interactive net opera
and media installation Imperial Silence: A Days of the Dead New Media
Opera is premiering at the Oakland Museum of California. Leaños
received a $35,000 Creative Work Fund Award to complete the project in
collaboration with the museum. The opera will be set in a 1968 Chevy Impala
which was designed by Creative Capital grantee Artemio Rodríguez.
October 15 – November 30
http://www.leanos.net
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro’s dance piece Pamina
Devi: The Magic Flute Revisited is having its world premiere at Vienna’s
Celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday. Commissioned by New Crowned
Hope Festival, Pamina Devi is a Cambodian classical dance based
on Mozart’s Magic Flute, performed by a company of professional
classical Cambodian dancers. December 8 – 22
http://www.wienmozart2006.at
http://www.khmerartsacademy.org
Brent Green presents his film Paulina Hollers,
a work-in-progress, at the Williams Auditorium at the Getty
Center in Los Angeles on October 7. The film will then be screened
at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
on November 20 and at the Wexner
Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio on November 21. All films will
be accompanied by live improvised soundtracks by Califone and Brendan
Canty.
Peggy Diggs premieres objects from her community-based
project WorkOut at the Broad
Street Ministry in Philadelphia. The exhibition is the culmination
of a collaboration with fifteen inmates at the maximum-security State
Correctional Institute in Graterford, Pennsylvania, in which Diggs and
the inmates developed innovative solutions for confined living habitats.
October 12 – 25
Pablo Helguera is wrapping up a 30-stop tour of his project
in North and South America with final stops in Argentina and Brazil, with
an epilogue to be announced at New York City’s Museo del Barrio.
In collaboration with host cities, The
School of Panamerican Unrest is a traveling schoolhouse featuring
discussions, workshops, films and public programming which offer alternative
ways to understand the history, ideology, and lines of thought that have
significantly impacted political, social and cultural events in the Americas.
December 8 – 17
Stephen Vitiello will be premiering segments of Sound
Objects/Open Space at The
Project, New York in the solo exhibition Sound Works and Drawings,
opening October 5. The show will include audio installations, sound recordings,
and works on paper. Related works were also exhibited in September at
Museum 52, London,
in the solo exhibition Night Chatter, and Vitiello will be performing
October 15 with Matt Flowers and Nic Desantis as part of the 804
Noise Festival at ArtSpace in Richmond, Virginia.
http://www.stephenvitiello.com
locust will premiere mockumentary at On
the Boards in Seattle, Washington. The dance, video and music collaboration
is part documentary, part horror film and part rock show featuring composer/musician
Zeke Keeble and choreographer/performer Amy O’Neal with dancer Elie
Sandstrom and five performers. October 19 – 21
http://www.locustsucka.com
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
1,100 Artists, 40th Workshop, and Headlands Reunion
The Professional Development Program is delighted to report that more
than 1,000 artists nationwide have participated in its workshops. This
important milestone for the program was reached earlier this year when
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the partner for PDP’s first-ever
workshop, returned to the program to host a second workshop for artists
in June. Additionally, the Professional Development workshop for Creative
Capital grantees, held during this summer’s Retreat, was the 40th
workshop the program has delivered in just over three years.
In November, PDP will return to San Francisco to do a 6th workshop in
the Bay Area, and while there will host a follow up event and reunion
at Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County for alumni from the Headlands
and California College of the Arts weekend workshops as well as alumni
from a workshop given to participants chosen by Z Space, Film Arts Foundation
and Dancers Group.
PDP Workshop Calendar
October 7: Artists U, Philadelphia, PA
October 20: Harwood Art Center, Institute of American
Indian Arts, The Lensic, Santa Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
November 10: Z Space, San Francisco, CA
December 8: Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix,
AZ
STATE RESEARCH PROGRAM
Destination Spots: Arizona and Maine
This summer Ruby Lerner met with representatives in Arizona, and Lerner
and Celia O’Donnell visited Maine—both states are research
project participants. The collaborations have inspired conversations about
supporting local artists. “Supporting individual artists is a priority,
as one piece of our strategy to build on Maine’s strengths. But
we must do more, and welcome the new partnership with the Creative Capital
Foundation,” said John E. Baldacci, Governor of Maine. Findings
from the State Research Project will be available in early 2007.
MAP FUND
Multi-Arts Production Fund (MAP) Announces its 2006 Grant Recipients
Forty-two new works in the live performing arts, from arts organizations
in 13 states, received awards of $15,000 to $33,000; the total amount
of grants is roughly $1,000,000. Selected from more than 650 submissions,
the projects were chosen by national evaluators in a preliminary round
and a final selection panel of artists, arts professionals, and arts advocates
from across the field.
For the complete list of 2006 grantees, go to http://www.mapfund.org.
Young Jean Lee was awarded a seven-year playwriting residency at New
Dramatists in New York City. She will direct Songs of the Dragons
Flying to Heaven at HERE
Arts Center (New York City) from September 22 – October 15 and
at the Walker Art Center
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) from January 18 – 20, 2007.
ARTS WRITERS PROGRAM
First Deadline Closes, Selection Begins
Approximately 500 submissions were received on September 18 for the inaugural
grants to be awarded by The
Arts Writers Grant Program. Spearheaded by The Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and
administered by Creative Capital, the program is designed to support writers
whose work addresses contemporary visual art, through project-based grants
issued directly to individual authors. With the selection process now
underway, look for grantee announcements in mid-February 2007.
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