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Creative Capital Open Call 2027 is sponsored by Creative Capital. The Creative Capital Open Call seeks proposals from individual artists in all 50 states for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature.
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Creative Capital Award - Creative Capital What can we help you find? Kassa Overall (2023 Awardee) is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer, and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques, and has been working at the forefront of New York City’s jazz scene for two decades.
Image courtesy of Patrick O’Brien Smith Creative Capital Awards and Grants empower individual artists with unrestricted project funding and professional services to bring bold, innovative, and impactful new works to life.
2026 State of the Art Prize 2026 State of the Art Prize The inaugural State of the Art Prize provides a $10,000 unrestricted grant to one individual artist in every state, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D. C.
2026 Creative Capital Award 2026 Creative Capital Award The 2026 Creative Capital Award will support the creation of 49 new works in visual arts, film, dance, theater, music/jazz, and literature, as well as technology, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms in all disciplines.
Celebrating Visionary Artists Across Disciplines Since 1999, Creative Capital has recognized boundary-pushing artists working across an array of disciplines at catalytic moments in their careers. Since its inception, the Creative Capital Award has funded over 1,000 visionary artists working in the visual arts, performing arts, dance, theater, jazz, film, literature, technology, and multidisciplinary and socially engaged forms.
Creative Capital Awardees have presented across the country at leading venues, festivals, and institutions, including MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, LACMA, Broadway, Venice Biennale, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Art Center, and SXSW.
Awardees have received other prestigious honors and accolades, including: 169 Guggenheim Fellowships, 35 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships, 6 Pulitzer Prizes, and 3 Academy Awards, and 15 Academy Award nominations.
Notable awardees include: Jeffrey Gibson, Simone Leigh, Anicka Yi, Guadalupe Maravilla, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Larissa FastHorse, Sidra Bell, Alice Sheppard, Terri Lyne Carrington, Etienne Charles, Garrett Bradley, Laura Poitras, Cristina Ibarra, Chris Eyre, Cory Arcangel, Rachel Rossin, Titus Kaphar, Percival Everett, Maggie Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, and many others.
The Creative Capital Award is the only national open call grant program dedicated to funding artists creating new work in every discipline, including visual arts, performing arts, film, literature, technology, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. Creative Capital’s unrestricted project grants are purposefully made through an open, national, multidisciplinary, external review process for proposals for new artistic works.
Since 2020, Creative Capital receives thousands of proposals each year, demonstrating the urgent and widespread need for project support. The Creative Capital Award provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants (up to $50,000) and professional development services for the creation of innovative, original, groundbreaking new artistic works.
Creative Capital’s transformative giving approach is built on the principle that artists need funding as well as networks and advisory services in order to realize ambitious projects and thriving careers. Building Thriving Community Woven into the ethos of the Creative Capital Award is a spirit of generosity—helping artists nurture relationships that will carry them through their professional careers.
Creative Capital hosts regional and national artists gatherings, inviting awardees to come together with industry experts, cultural producers, arts professionals, and philanthropists to preview new projects, discuss opportunities and challenges, and celebrate our artist-centered community. Support Creative Capital Awards ”Creative Capital has been a sweet transformative gift.
I accessed funding to purchase computer and VR equipment to deepen my work in virtual-reality design, now a staple in my practice. ” In honor of 25 years of grantmaking, Creative Capital has expanded its support of individual artists with the launch of the new State of the Art Prize .
Through the open call process for the Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital will also select recipients of the State of the Art Prize, which aims to recognize one artist residing in each U.S. state and territory with an unrestricted artist grant of $10,000 per artist.
For the 2026 and 2027 grant cycles, all applicants to the Creative Capital Award are automatically considered for the State of the Art Prize and are evaluated for the Prize using the same criteria; there is no separate application process. Creative Capital Awardees may not apply for the State of the Art Prize. State of the Art Prize winners may apply to future grant cycles for the Creative Capital Award.
Both the Creative Capital Award and State of the Art Prize are one-time distinctions. Support State of the Art Prizes 2019 Awardee and Sundance Film Festival Next Award–winner for "Desire Lines" ”This award was the first—and only—support we received from an arts institution for this project. I will be eternally grateful to Creative Capital for taking a chance on me.
” 2019 Awardee and Sundance Film Festival Next Award–winner for "Desire Lines" 2019 Awardee and Sundance Film Festival Next Award–winner for "Desire Lines" Grants are awarded by discipline via a national, open call, external review process. Through the open call process for the Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital will also select recipients of the State of the Art Prize.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Individual artists in all 50 states working in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $50,000 (unrestricted project grants), $10,000 (State of the Art Prize). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
This listing does not include a published deadline, but it is a periodic program. Check the official notice for the current cycle's exact dates.
Creative Capital Open Call 2027 is funded by Creative Capital. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
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