Creative Capital announce awardees in three categories

Creative Capital believes in honoring the beauty of art and celebrating its true forms. In the same procedure, Creative Capital has announced that it will award funding to 46 projects by 63 individual artists. These projects should be by the artists in emerging fields, literature and performing arts and whose type of work cannot be classified under traditional mediums.

President Ruby Lerner highlights her Creative Capital favorites

Ruby Lerner, the president and executive director of Creative Capital, confirmed the news on Monday. “Our goal is to fund really exciting artists and projects. It’s not a lifetime achievement award. It’s for people who have really interesting ideas, whether you’ve heard of them or you haven’t heard of them.” She added that, in an effort to bring out more diversity among the 2,500 applicants, the organization deliberately made sure wild cards were involved in the selection process”, said Ruby Lerner in a phone interview.

She also told about her favorite projects from the shortlisted ones. When asked about her favorites, she said that she loved Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s project in which the artist has collected DNA samples from the subway and has made reverse-engineered portraits based on them. Another project that she admires and admits being partial to was Desert ArtLAB’s chosen project. The project involves making an extensive cookbook which was based completely on the desert. She also loved Evan Roth’s project that extensively applies ghost-hunting technology to the Internet. Kenya Robinson’s project which offers online courses that blurs and gels the boundaries between audiences and the artist was also praised by her.

Lerner further added, “One of the things I love about every roster that we announce is that it covers the waterfront, and it would be pretty hard for someone to say, ‘Oh, that Creative Capital, they’re only interested in’ fill in the blank. How would you even fill in that blank?”

Awardees of the year 2016

Below is the full list of awardees that were honored in three categories, vis-à-vis, Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts. To know more about their projects and to know the details regarding it, you can visit Creative capita’s website.

Category – Emerging Fields