Creative Capital invites applications for radical new arts projects

Founded in 1999, Creative Capital Foundationaims to uplift underserved, risk-taking artists with unrestricted project grants, professional development, and community-building services to advance freedom of expression and foster sustainable careers.For its 25th anniversary, Creative Capital has issued an Open Call for innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project funding from $15,000 to $50,000, which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.Artists are invited to propose experimental, original, bold projects in the visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms which push boundaries formally and/or thematically. Artists are invited to select a primary

discipline for their proposals based on which experts are most suited and qualified to review the project proposal, with the understanding that radical art is often by nature interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or antidisciplinary. In 2025, 50 grants will be awarded in the following categories: Visual Arts:Including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, performance art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged, and/or sustainable visual art-based practices.Performing Arts:Including dance, theater (new theatrical work, playwriting), jazz, music, opera, singing, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performing arts-based practices.Film/Moving Image:Including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices.Technology:Including augmented reality/virtual reality, bio art, data visualization, hardware, software, digital media, internet art, and socially engaged and/or sustainable technology-based practices.Literature:Including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and socially engaged and/or sustainable literature-based practices.To be eligible, applicants must be United States citizens, permanent legal residents, or O-1 visa holders; at least 25 years old; and a working artist(s) with at least five years of professional artistic practice. Applicants may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program, may not apply to the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program in the same year, may not have previously received a Creative Capital Award, and may not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year.Letters of inquiry will be accepted from March 4, 2024, to April 4, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. ET. Upon review, selected applicants will be notified of advancement to Round II in June 2024; and to Final Panel Review in September 2024, with the public announcement of the 2025 Creative Capital Awards to be made in January 2025.For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Creative Capital website.