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# Creative Capital Awards $2.45M to 55 Artists
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/creative-capital-awards-millions-to-55-artists/
- Published: 2025-01-21T22:43:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:12:07.000Z
- Description: Harmony Holiday, Rashaad Newsome, Morehshin Allahyari, and Ilana Savdie are among this year’s awardees, who range between 29 and 72 years old.
- Author: Rhea Nayyar
- Tags: News, Creative Capital, Grants, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025)

The Creative Capital Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual grant awards, amounting to $2.45 million allotted across 55 artists and collectives for 49 individual projects. Each grant provides $50,000 of unrestricted project funding alongside multi-year professional development and opportunities for community building.

Founded in 1999, Creative Capital deliberately taps "[risk-taking, underinvested artists](https://creative-capital.org/mission/?ref=hyperallergic.com)" who work across visual and performing arts, architecture and design, film, and literature to facilitate socially engaged and culturally meaningful projects. [Harmony Holiday](https://hyperallergic.com/649322/an-intimate-look-at-james-baldwin-and-his-rarely-discussed-suicide-attempts/), [Rashaad Newsome](https://hyperallergic.com/715398/rashaad-newsomes-riveting-artistic-universe-continues-to-expand/), [Morehshin Allahyari](https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/), [Susan Chen](https://hyperallergic.com/837239/the-many-lives-of-a-purell-bottle/), and [Ilana Savdie](https://hyperallergic.com/631780/ilana-savdie-maps-electrifying-geographies-deli-gallery/) are among the awardees selected from a pool of over 5,600 applicants.

The foundation outlined in a press release that 75% of the 2025 recipients are artists of color, 56% identify as women, and 18% identify as gender non-conforming, transgender, or nonbinary. Artists with disabilities make up 11% of the awardee cohort. Therecipientsrange between 29 and 72 years old, with artists representing 18 states across the US and 29 cities total — including Berlin, Germany, and Demorestville, Canada.

Among the grantees, 14 are visual artists, 15 work in performing arts, 12 are in the film and moving image sector, three were awarded for projects in technology, and five received grants for literary projects.

"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, in a press statement.

The details of each recipient and their project are available [here](https://creative-capital.org/award/awardees/2025/?ref=hyperallergic.com). A list of every grantee and their category award is appended below.

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## 2025 Creative Capital Awards Grantees

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The Creative Capital Foundation selected 55 artists and collectives for its annual grant award from a pool of over 5,600 applicants. (image courtesy Creative Capital)

### Visual Arts

**Kathy Aoki**  
Santa Clara, California  
*Koons Ruins Atlas*  
Painting and Printmaking  
  
**Susan Chen**  
Long Island City, New York  
*Chinatown Girl Scouts: Past & Present*  
Painting and Printmaking  
  
**Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene Cornejo**  
Ithaca, New York, and Chicago, Illinois  
*LAND*  
Ecological Art, Social Practice  
  
**Katie Grinnan**  
Los Angeles, California  
*The Vault*  
Ecological Art, Sculpture, Video Art  
  
**Vishal Jugdeo**  
Los Angeles, California  
*Hurl a Rock, Feel a Flame*  
Installation, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Video Art  
  
**Kameron Neal**  
Brooklyn, New York  
*What Year Is It?*  
Installation, Video Art  
  
**Samantha Nye**  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  
*Possible Pleasures*  
Installation, Performance Art, Video Art  
  
**Jared Owens**  
New York, New York  
*Remembering Attica: the optics of uprising*  
Painting and Printmaking, Sculpture, Social Practice  
  
**Steve Parker**  
Austin, Texas  
*HOUSTON IS SINKING*  
Public Art, Sculpture, Sound Art  
  
**Julia Phillips**  
Chicago, Illinois  
*Pentasomnia*  
Installation, Sculpture, Video Art  
  
**Lee Pivnik**  
Miami, Florida  
*The Living Room: A Symbiotic Home*  
Architecture and Design, Ecological Art, Sculpture  
  
**Ilana Savdie**  
Brooklyn, New York  
*Festejeros*  
Painting and Printmaking, Installation, Video Art  
  
**Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste**  
Richmond, Virginia  
*There, Eyes Were Watching*  
Architecture and Design, Ecological Art, Public Art

**Christine Wong Yap**  
Daly City, California  
*Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花*  
Craft, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Visual Art

### Technology

**Morehshin Allahyari**  
Berkeley, California  
*The Remaining Signs of Future Centuries / نشانه های باقی از سده های آتی*  
Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Technology  
  
**Shayla Blatchford**  
Santa Fe, New Mexico  
*Anti-Uranium Mapping Project*  
Data Visualization, Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Technology  
  
**Alice Bucknell**  
Los Angeles, California  
*Earth Engine*  
Data Visualization, Digital Media, Games

### Performing Arts

**Thana Alexa**  
Jackson Heights, New York  
*Resonance*  
Jazz, Music, Socially-Engaged Performance  
  
**Dahlak Brathwaite and** **Christopher Marianetti**  
Ridgewood, New York, and Jackson Heights, New York  
*COMMERCIAL*  
Multimedia Performance, Music, Theater  
  
**Ash Fure**  
Boston, Massachusetts  
*ANIMAL \[the underground\]*  
Music, Socially-Engaged Performance, Opera  
  
**Susie Ibarra**  
Berlin, Germany  
*CHAN*  
Multimedia Performance, Music, Opera  
  
**yuniya edi kwon and Holland Andrews**  
Brooklyn, New York  
*How does it feel to look at nothing*  
Multimedia Performance, Music, Opera  
  
**Kate Ladenheim**  
Los Angeles, California  
*Gestural Publics*  
Dance, Multimedia Performance  
  
**Leilehua Lanzilotti**  
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi  
*Lili'u*  
Opera

**Damon Locks**  
Chicago, Illinois  
*Live from CPS*  
Dance, Music, Socially-Engaged Performance  
  
**Rashaad Newsome**  
Oakland, California  
*I Come As One, But Stand As One Thousand*  
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Music  
  
**Paola Prestini**  
Brooklyn, New York  
*Sensorium Ex*  
Music, Opera, Socially-Engaged Performance  
  
**Ashwini Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy, and Ranee Ramaswamy** Minneapolis, Minnesota, and La Cañada Flintridge, California  
*The Liminal Museum*  
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Socially-Engaged Performance  
  
**Zane Rodulfo**  
Saint Albans, New York  
*SHOUTER!*  
Jazz, Multimedia Performance, Socially-Engaged Performance  
  
**Marike Splint**  
Los Angeles, California  
*SHOW FULL HISTORY*  
Multimedia Performance, Theater  
  
**Sister Sylvester**  
New York, New York  
*Ghost Genes*  
Multimedia Performance  
  
**Takahiro Yamamoto**  
Portland, Oregon  
*Hollow Center*  
Dance, Multimedia Performance

### Film/Moving Image

**Sophia Nahli Allison**  
Los Angeles, California  
*No Kisses Like Youres'*  
Experimental Film, Narrative Film  
  
**Amber Bemak**  
Dallas, Texas  
*Cosmic Moose and Grizzly Bears Ville*  
Documentary Film, Experimental Film  
  
**Lori Felker**  
Chicago, Illinois  
*Patient*  
Narrative Film  
  
**Ash Goh Hua**  
Woodhaven, New York  
*Confinement (坐月)*  
Narrative Film  
  
**Juan Pablo González**  
Glendale, California  
*The Measure of Time*  
Documentary Film  
  
**Darol Olu Kae**  
Los Angeles, California  
*Without a Song*  
Narrative Film  
  
**Angelo Madsen**  
Burlington, Vermont  
*OUT OF ME INTO YOU*  
Documentary Film, Narrative Film, Experimental Film  
  
**Dolissa Medina**  
Brownsville, Texas  
*A Light for Ambiguous Loss*  
Documentary Film, Animation, Experimental Film  
  
**Emily Mkrtichian and Kamee Abrahamian**  
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Demorestville, Ontario, Canada  
*Portals*  
Narrative Film  
  
**Clyde Petersen**  
Anacortes, Washington  
*Our Forbidden Country*  
Animation  
  
**Tshay**  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  
*Tell Me When You Get Home.*  
Animation, Narrative Film  
  
**Janelle VanderKelen**  
Knoxville, Tennessee  
*The Golden Thread*  
Animation, Experimental Film

### Literature

**Thi Bui**  
New Orleans, Louisiana  
*NOWHERELAND*  
Graphic Novel  
  
**Harmony Holiday**  
Los Angeles, California  
*After the End of the World*  
Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Literature  
  
**Jonah Mixon-Webster**  
Flint, Michigan  
*The Hauntology of Slavery*  
Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Literature  
  
**Aaron Robertson**  
Brooklyn, New York  
*A Separate Rite*  
Literary Fiction, Socially-Engaged Literature  
  
**Divya Victor**  
East Lansing, Michigan  
*Kin*  
Literary Nonfiction