Grant
Creative Capital Award
Unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 plus professional-development services for individual artists creating innovative new work.
About this opportunity
The Creative Capital Award supports individual artists developing original, groundbreaking work across visual and performing arts, film, literature, technology, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged practices. Grants are selected through a national multidisciplinary open call and external review. Awardees receive unrestricted project funding of up to $50,000 together with professional-development services, networks, and advisory support. The 2026 awardees have been published; the organization also references a 2027 grant cycle without a current verified deadline on the source page.
Current published details
1funding amount
amount shape: maximum · currency code: USD · amount max: 50000.00 · scope: per_recipient · usd amount max: 50000.00 · usd conversion rate: 1.00000000 · usd converted on: 2026-07-22
How the program has evolved
1lifecycle
awarded
Status history
1Between cycles
Creative Capital states that the 2027 Open Call portal is closed and its 2 April 2026 deadline has passed.
Current application seasons
0No current season is published.
Past seasons
3Historical cohorts
12019 Creative Capital Award
0 published recipients · unknown
Published recipients
60Ada Ferrer
Aponte: An Opera
Alexandra Chreiteh
Sweetmeats or, Who Killed Issam Sukkar?
Alia Farid
Migration of Forms
American Artist
Shaper of God
Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz
Aponte: An Opera
Black Quantum Futurism
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States
Brandon Kazen-Maddox
The ASL Dance Theatre Reimagining of Andrew Lippa’s WILD PARTY
Camae Ayewa
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States
Cheswayo Mphanza
Zambia: Tomorrow the Moon!
Christopher K. Morgan
N(8)tive Enough