The money gave me the chance to prioritize my writing — something that I wish didn’t feel like a privilege but does — and it gave me the encouragement I needed to keep going.
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Creative Capital Grants $1.75M to Artists, 76% of Whom Are POC
The Black Schoolhouse and a comedic film by Suha Araj are among the 35 projects receiving $50,000 grants.
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A Net Artist on Why the Cloud Is a Bad Metaphor for the Internet
Evan Roth is increasingly interested in exploring the physical infrastructure of the internet. His latest project brings his research into your bedroom.
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Photographs of a Cree Community Before a Manmade Flood Washed It Away
A new online archive revisits George Legrady’s 1973 photography project about the Cree communities of James Bay, Quebec.
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What Role Can Artists Play in Prison Reform?
When I walked into the Greene Space for Creative Capital’s first Creative Conversations event — focused on artists who make work about criminal justice and the prison system — I felt a little skeptical.
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In an Artist’s Video Project, Getting to Know Trans and Intersex Activists
A project by artist Carlos Motta to interview and document the work of transgender and intersex activists recently went public, in the form of an online archive.
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Under Construction: Engaging with Art from the Ground Up
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (renovation in progress). (Photo by the author for Hyperallergic) WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — After a while it felt like a barrage: a darkly rendered animation set in a psychiatrist’s office and a gigantic space station; a Chinese labor camp investigation enacted by singing puppets; a film featuring […]