Creative Capital Names Recipients of 2024 “Wild Futures” Awards

Creative Capital on January 22 announced $2.5 million in grants. Its 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Award is divided into two categories, one recognizing visual artists and the other in support of filmmakers and those working with the moving image. Fifty projects will each receive up to $50,000 in unrestricted funding to the fifty-four artists working on them. The money is disbursed over a multiyear period, with the intent of fostering a long-term relationship between Creative Capital, the artists, and the broader artistic community, with the organization offering connections to professional advice across various fields, from law to finance, as well as that of other artists. Theawardsare aimed at helping artists develop sustainable practices on which they may build.RelatedELKE SOLOMON (1943–2024)2024 VENICE BIENNALE: MOROCCAN PAVILION SHAKEUP, GERMANY ANNOUNCES ARTISTS “The selected fifty projects poignantly navigate personal and political questions that shape our human experience and collective imaginations of the future, from Hawaiian and African diaspora, to aging in relation to geological time, to sci-fi and Afrofuturistic AI humanoids, to blood quantum, burden belts, and new monuments to Native survival and creativity,” said Aliza Shvarts, Creative Capital’s director of artist initiatives, in a statement. The projects were chosen from some 5,600 entries via a democratic peer-review process.

The winning artists are scattered across the US and Puerto Rico and represent a variety of generations and career stages; their practices span painting, drawing, sculpture, public art, video art, architecture and design, printmaking, installation, documentary film, experimental film, and narrative film, among other forms. Eighty percent identify as BIPOC; of these, 20 percent are Native or Indigenous. Fifty-three percent of the 2024 cohort are women; 11 percent identify as nonbinary; and 5 percent are disabled. “Creative Capital’s open call process continues to astound us with the compelling new ideas burgeoning across the country—from environmental conservation to community voices embedded in outdoor sculpture to women’s rights,” said Christine Kuan, Creative Capital’s president and executive director, in a statement. “We’re committed to not only helping these brilliant artists realize their projects, but to also creating the conditions that will enable their artistic practices to thrive.” A full list of 2024 recipients is below: VISUAL ARTS Jordan Ann Craig, Santa Fe, NM; Brigit Johnson, Placerville, CA Emily Barker, Los Angeles Andrea Carlson, Grand Marais, MN and Chicago Nani Chacon, Albuquerque Christy Chan, Richmond, CA william cordova, North Miami Beach, FL Sofía Córdova, Emeryville, CA and Carolina, PR Russell Craig, Brooklyn, NY Azza El Siddique, New Haven Jes Fan, Brooklyn, NY Avram Finkelstein, Brooklyn, NY Beatrice Glow, San Jose, CA J Jan Groeneboer, Brooklyn, NY Chase Hall, New York Nona Hendryx, New York; Mickalene Thomas, Brooklyn, NY Chaz John, Santa Fe, NM Mary Kelly, Los Angeles Gavin Kroeber, St.

Louis Erica Lord, Santa Fe, NM Chico MacMurtrie, Brooklyn, NY Jackie Milad, Baltimore Meleko Mokgosi, Wellesley, MA Aliza Nisenbaum, Long Island City, NY Jonathan Rajewski, Kyle Daniel-Bey, Detroit Rachel Rossin, New York Charisse Pearlina Weston, Brooklyn, NY Dyani White Hawk, Shakopee, MN Şerife (Sherry) Wong, San Francisco FILM/MOVING IMAGE Carmen Amengual, Los Angeles Ephraim Asili, Hudson, NY Mamadou Dia, Charlottesville, VA Nazlı Dinçel, Milwaukee Chris Eyre, Santa Fe, NM Billy Gerard Frank, Brooklyn, NY Kelly Gallagher, Syracuse, NY Leah Gipson, Oak Park, IL; Dwayne Young, Union City, GA Elisa Harkins, Tulsa, OK Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Baltimore Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Miami Miatta Kawinzi, Brooklyn, NY Sofian Khan, Milford, CT A.S.M. Kobayashi, Brooklyn, NY Loira Limbal, San Juan, PR Tchaiko Omawale, Los Angeles Lourdes Portillo, San Francisco Tiare Ribeaux, Honolulu Anocha Suwichakornpong, Brooklyn, NY Colleen Thurston, Tulsa, OK Thanh Tran, Hayward, CA TRINH T. Minh-ha, Berkeley, CA.