Creative Capital Announces 2025 Awards
156Jan. 23, 2025
The nonprofitCreative Capital Foundationhas announced the 2025 recipients of its annual grants, which this year total $2.45 million. Forty-nine projects will each receive $50,000 in unrestricted funding, as well as multiyear professional development assistance and community-building opportunities for the fifty-five individual artists and collectives working on them. Among the disciplines represented are painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, video, installation, dance, theater, jazz, opera, multimedia performance, narrative film, experimental film, documentary film, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The projects are themed around topics including climate emergency, gentrification, queer ecologies, anti-colonialism, mental health, artificial intelligence, immigration, and slavery reparations, as well as around concepts of motherhood, family, and land.
The winning projects were chosen from among more than 5,600 entries, by a sixteen-member multidisciplinary panel who considered each project together, regardless of genre. The winning artists range in age from twenty-nine to seventy-two and represent eighteen US states and twenty-nine cities, among them Demorestville, Canada, and Berlin. Seventy-five percent of the cohort are artists of color, while 56 percent identify as women and 18 percent as gender nonconforming, transgender, or nonbinary. Eleven percent are artists with disabilities.
“From a landscape opera that tells ancestral stories of environment in the Jurassic canyons of southern Colorado, to an experimental documentary exploring migration and forensics on the South Texas border, to a project that transforms a Louisiana plantation into a site of reckoning, these fifty-five visionary artist proposals are boldly pushing form and ideas forward,” said Angela Mattox, Creative Capital’s director of artist initiatives, in a statement.A full list of grantees is below.
VISUAL ARTSKathy Aoki, Santa Clara, CASusan Chen, Queens, NYJen de los ReyesandOscar Rene Cornejo; Ithaca, NY, and ChicagoKatie Grinnan, Los AngelesVishal Jugdeo, Los AngelesKameron Neal, Brooklyn, NYSamantha Nye, PhiladelphiaJared Owens, New YorkSteve Parker, Austin, TXJulia Phillips, ChicagoLee Pivnik, MiamiIlana Savdie, Brooklyn, NYJeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Richmond, VAChristine Wong Yap, Daly City, CA
TECHNOLOGYMorehshin Allahyari, Berkeley, CAShayla Blatchford, Santa Fe, NMAlice Bucknell, Los Angeles
PERFORMING ARTSThana Alexa, Queens, NYDahlak BrathwaiteandChristopher Marianetti; Queens, NYAsh Fure, BostonSusie Ibarra, Berlinyuniya edi kwonandHolland Andrews; Brooklyn, NYKate Ladenheim, Los AngelesLeilehua Lanzilotti, HonoluluDamon Locks, ChicagoRashaad Newsome, Oakland, CAPaola Prestini, Brooklyn, NYAshwini Ramaswamy,Aparna Ramaswamy, andRanee Ramaswamy; Minneapolis and La Cañada Flintridge, CAZane Rodulfo, Saint Albans, NYMarike Splint, Los AngelesSister Sylvester, New YorkTakahiro Yamamoto, Portland, OR
FILM/MOVING IMAGESophia Nahli Allison, Los AngelesAmber Bemak, DallasLori Felker, ChicagoAsh Goh Hua, Queens, NYJuan Pablo González, Glendale, CADarol Olu Kae, Los AngelesAngelo Madsen, Burlington, VTDolissa Medina, Brownsville, TXEmily Mkrtichian and Kamee Abrahamian; Salt Lake City and Demorestville, ONClyde Petersen, Anacortes, WATshay, PhiladelphiaJanelle VanderKelen, Knoxville, TN
LITERATUREThi Bui, New OrleansHarmony Holiday, Los AngelesJonah Mixon-Webster, Flint, MIAaron Robertson, Brooklyn, NYDivya Victor, East Lansing, MI