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NEW<\/span> YORK<\/span>, NY (January 8, 2009) \u2013Creative Capital, the national organization that supports individual artists, announces the recipients of its 2009 grants. Initial awards of $10,000 have been made to 41 projects in emerging fields, innovative literature and performing arts. These projects represent 61 artists across the country working individually and in collaboration. Each project becomes eligible for additional funds of as much as $50,000 over the course of the organization\u2019s multi-year commitment.<\/p>\n Artists also participate in Creative Capital\u2019s distinctive Artist Services Program valued at $25,000 per artist. This program offers artists skills-building assistance in areas such as fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning with the goal of advancing both their projects and their careers. So far Creative Capital has devoted more than $7 million to the Artists Services Program and has served more than 400 artists in its ten-year history.<\/p>\n The panelists who chose the 16 emerging fields projects were Sarah Cook (CRUMB<\/span>\/Eyebeam, New York, NY); Steve Dietz (ZERO1, San Jose, CA); Susan Kennard (Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada); Gunalan Nadarajan (Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD); Paul Vanouse (Creative Capital artist, Buffalo, NY); and emerging fields lead program consultant Pamela Winfrey (The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA).<\/p>\n The panelists who chose the six innovative literature projects were Jeffrey Renard Allen (Creative Capital artist, New York, NY); lead program consultant for innovative literature Ethan Nosowsky (Graywolf Press, New York, NY); Robert Polito (New School, New York, NY); Matthew Stadler (Clear Cut Press, Portland, OR); Suzanna Tamminen (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT); and Diane Williams (NOON<\/span>, New York, NY).<\/p>\n The panelists who chose the 19 performing arts projects were Tamara Alvarado (1stACT Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA); Philip Bither (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN); Grisha Coleman (Creative Capital artist, Tempe, AZ); lead program consultant for performing arts Boo Froebel (Lincoln Center Festival, New York, NY); George Lugg (REDCAT<\/span>, Los Angeles, CA); and Ruth Waalkes (Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD).<\/p>\n Creative Capital\u2019s director of grants and services, Sean Elwood, served on all three panels, which were moderated by Ruby Lerner, president of Creative Capital.<\/p>\n Selected from 2,068 applications, the funded projects come from across the country. Creative Capital artists now represent 29 states in total. About the new class of grantees, Lerner said, \u201cThe breadth of ideas and issues that these projects address confirms that American artists are rising above global uncertainty and unsettlement, propelled by the spirit of invention. These artists are each reinventing the world they live in, and as their projects come to life I think we can expect their influence to ripple outward.\u201d<\/p>\n Foundation Update<\/strong> About Creative Capital<\/strong> Sustaining support for Creative Capital is currently provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The TOBY<\/span> Fund, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and more than 100 other foundations and individuals.<\/p>\n CREATIVE<\/span> CAPITAL<\/span> 2009 ARTISTS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Emerging Fields 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation<\/strong> (Culver City, CA) New Genres Cesar Cornejo<\/strong> (Tampa, FL) Architecture James Coupe<\/strong> (Seattle, WA) Digital Arts Beatriz da Costa<\/strong> (Long Beach, CA) Digital Arts eteam<\/strong> (Queens, NY) Interdisciplinary Futurefarmers<\/strong> (San Francisco, CA) Interdisciplinary Catherine Herdlick<\/strong> (San Francisco, CA) Gaming Shih Chieh Huang<\/strong> (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary Lisa Jevbratt<\/strong> (Santa Barbara, CA) Interdisciplinary Jae Rhim Lee<\/strong> (Cambridge, MA) Interdisciplinary neuroTransmitter<\/strong> (Queens, NY) Interdisciplinary Richard Pell<\/strong> (Pittsburgh, PA) Interdisciplinary Stephanie Rothenberg <\/strong>(Buffalo, NY) New Genres Mark Shepard<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) New Genres Karolina Sobecka<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Design Sam Van Aken<\/strong> (Portland, ME) New Genres Innovative Literature 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Beatty<\/strong> (New York, NY) Fiction Kenny Fries<\/strong> (Toronto, ON, Canada) Nonfiction Ben Marcus<\/strong> (New York, NY) Fiction Bernadette Mayer<\/strong> (East Nassau, NY) Poetry Rebecca Solnit<\/strong> (San Francisco, CA) Nonfiction Deb Olin Unferth<\/strong> (Lawrence, KS) Fiction Performing Arts 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Byron Au Yong<\/strong> (Seattle, WA) and Aaron Jafferis<\/strong> (New Haven, CT) Opera Victor D. Cartagena, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Violeta Luna, David Molina and Antigone Trimis<\/strong> (San Francisco, CA) Performance Art Nora Chipaumire<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary Steve Cuiffo<\/strong>, (New York, NY) Trey Lyford<\/strong> (New York, NY) and Geoffrey Sobelle<\/strong> (Philadelphia, PA) Lisa D\u2019amour<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) and Katie Pearl<\/strong> (Austin, TX) Interdisciplinary Chris M. Green<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary Miguel Gutierrez<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Dance Robert Farid Karimi<\/strong> (Minneapolis, MN) Spoken Word Zoe Keating<\/strong> and Jeffrey Rusch<\/strong> (Camp Meeker, CA) Experimental Music Performance Heidi Latsky Dance<\/strong> (New York, NY) Dance Young Jean Lee<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Theater Los Angeles Poverty Department<\/strong> (Los Angeles, CA) Interdisciplinary Taylor Mac<\/strong> (New York, NY) Theater Barak Marshall<\/strong> (Los Angeles, CA), Tamir Muskat<\/strong> (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Margalit Oved<\/strong> (Los Angeles, CA) Experimental Music Performance David Neumann<\/strong> and Richard Sylvarnes<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary Ken Nintzel<\/strong> (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary Tere O\u2019Connor<\/strong> (New York, NY) Dance Tommy Smith<\/strong> and Reggie Watts<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary
\nWith these awards, Creative Capital\u2019s roster of artist projects grows to 324. In 2008 the foundation issued 41 grants in film\/video and visual arts. Many of those grantees attended Creative Capital\u2019s Artist Retreat in July 2008, the kickoff event of the Artist Services Program. Through the grant program and its Professional Development Program (a series of public workshops for artists held nationwide), Creative Capital has now served more than 2,500 artists.<\/p>\n
\nTen years ago, Creative Capital embarked on a mission to reinvent the existing model of arts philanthropy, to construct a new paradigm, and to fulfill the specific needs of the country\u2019s most innovative artists. Today, it is the premier national artist support organization, committed to the principle that time and advisory services are as crucial to artistic success as funding. Over the lives of its funded projects, Creative Capital provides artists with a flexible program of multi-faceted, sequential support and partners with them to determine how those targeted funds and services can best work in concert to progress towards the grantees\u2019 own goals. Since its founding in 1999, the organization has committed more than $14 million in financial support and services to 324 projects representing 411 artists. A complete list of grantees, profiles of funded projects, and up-to-date grant cycle information can be found online at the foundation\u2019s website at www.creative-capital.org.<\/p>\n
\nAmerican Land Museum<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPuno Museum of Contemporary Art<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSurveillance Suite<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nStories of the Rodent<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFranziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger
\nOpen Source Grabeland<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLocal Landscape Campus (L.L.C.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Cowgirl Way Society<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEX-SE-10<\/em><\/p>\n
\nZoomorph<\/em><\/p>\n
\nN=0=Infinity, Infinity Mushroom<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAngel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere
\nEmpire MHz<\/em><\/p>\n
\nInstitute for Post Natural Studies<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBest Practices<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSentient City Survival Kit<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAmateur Human<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI Am Here Today. . .<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDepresso<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGenkan: Entries into Japan<\/em><\/p>\n
\nChildren, Cover Your Eyes!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Faces That Launched A Thousand Ships<\/em><\/p>\n
\nInfinite City: A San Francisco Atlas<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNatural Citizens<\/em><\/p>\n
\nStuck Elevator: The Super-Heroic Stationary Journey of Mind Kuang Chen<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBORDER<\/span> TRIP<\/span><\/acronym> \/ TRIP<\/span><\/acronym> de la frontera<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Thomas Mapfumo Project, or lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTheater Next Stop: Amazingland<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHow To Build A Forest<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUltra-Local Sublime<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMisinterpreted<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Musician\u2019s Mind\u2019s Eye: A Synaesthetic Experience of \u2018One Cello x 16\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGIMP<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
\nKing Lear<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHenriette Bro\u00fcwers, Kevin Michael Key, John Malpede and Pamela Miller-Macias
\nHistory of Incarceration<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Lily\u2019s Revenge<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSymphony of Tin Cans<\/em><\/p>\n
\nOH NO NATURE<\/span> (or, Blaming on his Boots the Fault of his Feet)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nYou Are Here<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nReggie Watts: Transition<\/em><\/p>\n
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