Scope: Marking 25 years of groundbreaking artist support, Creative Capital is expanding its support of individual artists across the United States and its territories with the 2026 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award and the launch of a new two-year initiative, theState of the Art Prize, which is designed to further expand our grants and services to uplift more regional and rural artists, to invest in grassroots creative economies, and to foster a vibrant cultural landscape across the U.S. Our goal is to support artists of various identities, ages, and career stages working across a range of disciplines, themes, and ideas.
Creative Capital encourages a spirit of mutual generosity and exchange among our community through awardee gatherings, peer learning, and artist-to-artist connections. Creative Capital also invites artists who have realized financial success through our programs to give back to the organization through tax-deductible donations to help support the next generation of artists creating groundbreaking new works.
The Creative Capital Award seeks project proposals in the following disciplines:
* Visual Arts: architecture & design, craft, drawing & illustration, ecological art, installation, painting & printmaking, performance art, photography, public art, sculpture, social practice, sound art, video art, technology, and socially-engaged visual art
* Performing Arts: dance, jazz, multimedia performance, music, musical theater, opera, theater, playwriting, technology, and socially-engaged performing arts
* Film:animation, documentary film, experimental film, and narrative film
* Literature: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
Due Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 3PM ET.
Contact: awards@creative-capital.org
https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/
