Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel, and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster a successful and sustainable practice for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 325 projects representing 406 artists, and has reached an additional 3,000 artists through its Professional Development Program. For more information, visit www.creative-capital.org.
By engaging the public through regular outreach, Creative Capital helps bring projects to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. With a growing community of more than 40,000 friends and supporters, Creative Capital offers its grantees a range of promotional opportunities to maximize a project’s impact and reach, including press releases, mailings, social networking blasts and a quarterly newsletter. The Creative Capital website also provides an important online venue for artists to showcase their work and document a project’s progress, featuring individual grantee and project profiles, original content and work samples.