Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Presents “Wave & Particle”
Wave & Particle: A group exhibition celebrating Creative Capital’s 15th anniversary February 14 – March 21, 2015 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 31 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10013 Open Tuesday –...
View ArticleAli Momeni Releases a DIY Manual for Urban Projection
“The Gutless Warrior,” a participatory projection installation Ali Momeni was born in Isfahan, Iran, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He currently works as an artist and professor...
View ArticleStephanie Rothenberg’s Garden of Global Crowdfunding
Stephanie Rothenberg’s “Garden of Virtual Kinship” at ZKM Center for Art and Media Stephanie Rothenberg, like many corporations, is interested in what you’re doing online. But unlike those companies...
View ArticleAngel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere Premiere “Memory of a Time Twice Lived” at...
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, “Memory of a Time Twice Lived,” production still, 2015 The first U.S. survey of the work of Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere (2009 Emerging Fields) opens this week at...
View ArticleJen Bervin Mixes Poetry with Cutting-Edge Medical Technology
VIDEO: Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems Visual artist and writer Jen Bervin’s Creative Capital-supported project, Silk Poems, premieres this month in the exhibition Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the...
View ArticlePass It On: Curator Lindsay Howard Offers Tips for Artists
“Daisy” by Pascual Sisto, from bitforms exhibition “Temporary Highs” curated by Lindsay Howard No artist lives in a vacuum. Even though the art world is increasingly competitive, it’s possible to share...
View ArticleArtists to Watch: Highlights From The Creative Capital Retreat
The Elephant Room: Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah. Photo by Scott Suchman. Paddy Johnson’s final installment on the 2012 Artist Retreat, originally published on Art Fag City You wouldn’t...
View ArticleIn Focus: Mark Shepard's "Sentient City Survival Kit"
Mark Shepard’s “Quick Start Guide for the Sentient City Survival Kit” This week, Mark Shepard (2009 Emerging Fields) presents the Serendipitor iPhone app in Spontaneous Interventions, the U.S....
View ArticleIn Focus: Kelly Heaton's "The Parallel Series"
Short video of Kelly Heaton’s Restless Bird Chatters, Still Bird, 2012 This is the last week to catch a fantastic exhibition of new work by one of our Emerging Fields grantees: Kelly Heaton‘s The...
View ArticleRemembering Beatriz da Costa (1974-2012)
We were devastated to learn that Beatriz da Costa passed away on December 27, 2012, from cancer. An intelligent and innovative artist who became a Creative Capital Emerging Fields grantee in 2009,...
View ArticleMeet Our 2013 Grantees in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts!
Today, Creative Capital announced our 2013 project grants in the categories of Emerging Fields, Literature and the Performing Arts, representing a total of 46 funded projects by 66 artists hailing...
View ArticleThe Journey From PDF to Book: How To Find the Best E-Publishing Service
Our friends at Eyebeam asked alums eteam (2009 Emerging Fields) to write a blog post detailing their experiences with e-book publishing. We wanted to repost their findings here to help others who may...
View ArticleShih Chieh Huang Creates New Commissioned Work for Glasstress 2013
Shih Chieh Huang, Seductive Evolution of Animated Illumination, 2013 The art world has gotten used to managing their calendars around the Venice Biennale every two years. In 2009, a collateral event...
View ArticleIn James Coupe's "Swarm," Surveillance Equipment and Profiling Algorithms...
James Coupe, composite images from “Swarm” On September 4, James Coupe (2009 Emerging Fields) premiered the responsive media installation Swarm at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in...
View ArticleArtist to Artist: John Sutton and Juan William Chávez Talk Public Space,...
Concept rendering of SuttonBeresCuller’s “Mini Mart City Park” John Sutton: So, a little bit of background to start: I’m a 2008 Visual Arts grantee—one third of the group SuttonBeresCuller—and I’ve...
View ArticleVideo: Quintan Ana Wikswo at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Quintan Ana Wikswo (2013 Emerging Fields) presented on her Creative Capital-supported project, problemkinder / Mercy Killing Aktion, at the 2013 Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations...
View ArticleVideo: Ghana ThinkTank at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Ghana ThinkTank (2013 Emerging Fields) presented on their Creative Capital-supported project, Ghana ThinkTank at the Mexican Border, at the 2013 Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations...
View ArticleArt at the Edge: Creative Capital Artists at IdeaFestival 2013
Clockwise from top left: Eric Dyer, Elaine Tin Nyo, Paul Rucker, Jesse Sugarmann On Friday, September 27, Ruby Lerner presents at the IdeaFestival in Louisville with four amazing Creative Capital...
View ArticleVideo: Chemi Rosado-Seijo at the Artist Retreat
Chemi Rosado-Seijo (2013 Emerging Fields) presented on his project La Perla’s Portrait, Kite Festival at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations from the...
View ArticleVideo: Julia Christensen at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Julia Christensen (2013 Emerging Fields) presented on Project Project at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations from the Retreat on our Vimeo channel.
View ArticleVideo: Miriam Simun at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Miriam Simun (2013 Emerging Fields) presented on her project Eat Your Future at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations from the Retreat on our Vimeo channel.
View ArticleVideo: Nick Hallett and Shana Moulton at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Nick Hallett and Shana Moulton (2013 Emerging Fields) presented their project Whispering Pines ∞ at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations from the Retreat...
View ArticleVideo: Susan Robb at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Susan Robb (2013 Emerging Fields) presents her project Wild Times at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. Wild Times is a work of land art that takes its form as a thru-hike from Mexico to Canada...
View ArticleVideo: Fallen Fruit at the 2013 Artist Retreat
Fallen Fruit (2013 Emerging Fields) presented their project Endless Orchard at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. Endless Orchard is a non-contiguous map of fruit trees in public space which...
View ArticleArtist to Artist: Cory Arcangel and Julia Christensen on Media Fluidity and...
Cory Arcangel & Julia Christensen As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, Cory Arcangel (2006 Emerging Fields) and Julia Christensen (2013 Emerging Fields) connected over the phone to...
View ArticleSusan Robb's "Wild Times" Explores Wildness as a Geographic Ideal and a State...
On April 17, Susan Robb (2013 Emerging Fields) will embark on a five-month adventure from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. This marks the culmination of her Creative Capital-supported...
View ArticleLouisville Bound: Creative Capital Presents at IdeaFestival and Celebrates 15...
Left: Sam Van Aken, Blind Spots, 2014. Silver nitrate photograph.Right: Julia Christensen, Burnouts, 2014. Videos, plastic with mirrors, glass lenses, smartphones. On October 2, Creative Capital...
View ArticleJulia Christensen Turns Old iPhones Into Art
Media artist Julia Christensen (2013 Emerging Fields) is making DIY projectors out of discarded iPhones. In this video, she introduces her project Burnouts, which is part of a series of works...
View ArticleApplying to Creative Capital? What you need to know
A still from 2013 Performing Arts Awardee Kyle Abraham’s “Pavement.” Photo by Carrie Schneider. Today, we begin accepting applications for Creative Capital’s Awards in Emerging Fields, Literature and...
View ArticleHeather Dewey-Hagborg Imagines How Our Biodata Could Be Hacked
We spoke to Heather about her work. Alex Teplitzky: Usually I start by asking people to describe their project, but I feel like with your work, there is a personal narrative about how you arrived at...
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