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Creative Capital is moving full steam ahead into another trailblazing year. Project premieres, artist awards and upcoming events are all here in this issue of Highlights, and I am excited to report that our ever-expanding community can count 52 new artists among us.
The 2008 Creative Capital artists in film/video and visual arts are announced!
Film/Video
Kenseth Armstead, Anita Chang, Erin Cosgrove, Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, Rodney Evans, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Brad Lichtenstein and Vernon Reid, Billy Luther, Tara Mateik, Cat Mazza, Leighton Pierce, Laura Poitras, Anayansi Prado, Jay Rosenblatt, David Russo, Luke Savisky, Cauleen Smith, Daniel Sousa, Banker White and Zach Niles, and Julie Wyman.
Visual Arts
Sanford Biggers, Susan Brandt and Kristine Woods, Kianga Ford, Joseph Grigely, Wayne Hodge, Jennie C. Jones, Kalup Linzy, Naeem Mohaiemen, Matthew Moore, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Angela Reginato, Kaneem Smith, Eve Sussman, SuttonBeresCuller, Mark Tribe, Trimpin, lauren woods, Mario Ybarra, Jr., Bruce Yonemoto and Juli Carson, and Emna Zghal and Michael Rakowitz.
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> CREATIVE GRANTEES
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NATALIA ALMADA BREAKS ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE
“My first experience that showed me how different Creative Capital is as a funder,” says film/video artist Natalia Almada, ”is that they supported the premiere of Al Otro Lado at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005. They recognized that a successful premiere of my previous documentary would help push my career forward and be a great impulse for my Creative Capital-supported project, El General. This kind of support reminds someone like me that it isn’t just about this or that project but about a lifetime of work.”
With miles to go, this lifetime of work has been has been in the express lane ever since. El Otro Lado is still generating new audiences and acclaim; along with work by six other Creative Capital artists, Almada’s documentary is included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial opening in March. After Creative Capital cast the first vote of confidence for her new film El General, several funders followed suit, including NYSCA and Sundance Documentary Fund, and Almada recently received a MacDowell Colony residency.
“I don’t know quite how to express this, but applying for grants and raising money often feels like begging for handouts, and with Creative Capital I feel that there is a partnership of sorts, because the support isn’t only financial. Knowing that I can use Creative Capital as a strategic resource is a huge form of support.”
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BINARY BONANZA
The 2nd Biennial of 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge, curated by Steve Dietz and presented by ZER01, unfolds across Silicon Valley June 4–8, and there within the wires are many Creative Capital artists. The core biennial exhibition, Superlight, includes new work by Cory Arcangel, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jane Marsching, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Eddo Stern and Marina Zurkow. Satellite exhibitions are still being planned, but perhaps the most expansive is a Bay Area-wide retrospective of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work, Life to the power of n, which spans the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, de Young Museum, The Hess Collection, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Jose Museum of Art.
Near by, the Berkeley Big Bang at the Berkeley Center for New Media celebrates the Bay Area as the birthplace of this alliterative theory, as well as the Free Speech Movement, though a program of artist projects including an iteration of Mark Tribe’s Creative Capital-supported series of site specific reenactments of political speeches, The Port Huron Project.
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TOP PRIZES AT SUNDANCE
Creative Capital artists who screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival left Park City as the recipients of five major awards. The Grand Jury Prize Documentary went to Tia Lessin and Carl Deal for their Creative Capital-supported film Trouble the Water; Lessin also received the L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth "Vision" Award; The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize were awarded to Alex Rivera for his feature Sleep Dealer; and the United States Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award was presented to Braden King for his Creative Capital-supprted project HERE. |
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CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE: FREE TO EXPRESS
Creative Capital artist collaborative Critical Art Ensemble was awarded the inaugural Andy Warhol Foundation Wynn Kramarsky Freedom of Artistic Expression Grant, recognizing 20 years of work on behalf of freedom of expression. The grant comes at a critical time for the collective, as the government's post-PATRIOT Act prosecution of founding member Steve Kurtz is expected to go to trial this summer. Said Kurtz, "This grant makes it possible for us to continue our work, since Critical Art Ensemble has been effectively expatriated by the case. Labs in the U.S. have been intimidated, so we now have to leave the country to make projects at all." |
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CHAIN OF OPPORTUNITY: RECENT AWARDS
Natalie Bookchin, Kianga Ford and Artemio Rodriguez received California Community Foundation Fellowships for the Visual Arts; the Marlon Riggs Award for Courage and Vision in the Bay Area Film Community went to Lynn Hershman Leeson for her lifetime of vanguard work to date; Brian Knep won an LEF Foundation Grant; Allison Wiese received the 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; other artists recently honored include Joanna Haigood, Rennie Harris, Alex Rivera and Edgar Arceneaux
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> CREATIVE NEWS
CUE THE PARTY
Creative Capital kicked off 2008 with a reception at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea honoring our new film/video and visual arts grantees. Artists, board members, and the rest of Creative Capital’s many friends and family rallied around opening remarks by our own James Schamus and Fred Wilson
ON THE ROAD WITH THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Having served more than 200 artists in 2007, Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program presented its first weekend retreat of 2008 in Louisiana, hosted by the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Upcoming events include one-day marketing workshops in Florida and with the Six Points Fellowship in New York, a one-day communications workshop at LACE in Los Angeles, and weekend retreats in Kansas City, New York and San Antonio.
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CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS MAP FUND
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has partnered with the Rockefeller
Foundation to underwrite the MAP Fund as the program, administered by
Creative Capital, moves into its twentieth year. The Doris Duke Foundation
made a $3.3 million award to MAP, providing $1 million per year through 2010
for grants to performing arts project.
ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM ANNOUNCES 2007 GRANTEES
In its second year of a three-year pilot program, the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded a total of $300,000 to 16 individual authors. The 2007 grants range from $7,000 to $35,000 in three categories—short-form writing, articles and books—and support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences.
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