Creative Capital, a non-profit dedicated to supporting creative projects, has announced the 55 artists that will receive funding from its annual awards. Now running for 25 years, the awards will support 49 new projects across several disciplines, including visual arts, technology, performing arts, film/moving image, and literature. This year, the grants will total $2.45 million.
Up to $50,000 in direct funding will be provided for each project. Additionally, the artists will receive advisory services, mentorship, and community-building opportunities.
“Creative Capital is proud to support experimental, pathbreaking artists seeking to realize new works at a grassroots level, from rural communities to metropolitan cities,” said Christine Kuan, president and executive director of Creative Capital. “We continue to see trailblazing ideas burgeoning in all disciplines, and this is exactly the time in America when we need these voices to be heard and new works to come to life.”
The 2025 award recipients were selected from an applicant pool of 5,653, with contenders from all 50 states.
This year’s cohort comprises 75% artists of color, 56% women, and 18% who identify as gender-nonconforming, nonbinary, or trans. Additionally, 11% of the awardees are artists with disabilities.
Many of the funded projects explore critical issues such as climate change, gentrification, queer ecologies, anti-colonialism, and mental health. Colombian painter Ilana Savdie was awarded for her project “Festejeros,” exploring the cultural history of carnivals, which will result in a video and an installation investigating these festive forms of resistance and their historical context. Meanwhile, digital media artist Morehshin Allahyari received a grant in the technology category to research the Islamic Golden Era (7th–15th century) through an anti-colonial queer feminist lens. Focusing on historical innovators such as “father of optics” Ibn Al Haytham, the Iranian artist plans to build a case for reintegrating mysticism into scientific progress.
Elsewhere, Richmond-based artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste was selected for his innovative public art project, “There, Eyes Were Watching.” This project focuses on a “rebranded” former plantation in South Louisiana that now serves as a bed-and-breakfast glorifying the antebellum South. Toussaint-Baptiste will use funds to demolish the site and replace it with a monument for local and Indigenous groups.
“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 55 visionary artist proposals are boldly pushing form and ideas forward,” said Angela Mattox, director of artist initiatives at Creative Capital.
Since 1999, Creative Capital has supported 1,010 artists and funded 832 new projects. Creative Capital award winners from 2024 included Jes Fan and Dyani White Hawk.
The award winners in visual arts are as follows:
- Kathy Aoki
- Susan Chen
- Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene Cornejo
- Katie Grinnan
- Vishal Jugdeo
- Kameron Neal
- Samantha Nye
- Jared Owens
- Steve Parker
- Julia Phillips
- Lee Pivnik
- Ilana Savdie
- Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
- Christine Wong Yap
The full list of award winners, including film/moving image, performing arts, literature, and technology, can be found here.
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