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Cogratulations! You deserve it! Great Work! On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, info at zoekeating <info@zoekeating.com> wrote: > > hi loopers, > its official now and i can talk about it...jeff rusch and i have been > awarded a 2009 creative capital grant to produce a live, synaesthetic > experience of my music. > (i.e. looped/layered cello with midi-triggered video) > > i'm still in shock about it... > > happily loopily, zoe > > > > CREATIVE CAPITAL ANNOUNCES 2009 ARTISTS > > NEW YORK, NY (January 8, 2009) –Creative 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's multi-year commitment. > Artists also participate in Creative Capital's 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. > > The panelists who chose the 16 emerging fields projects were Sarah Cook > (CRUMB/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). > > 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, New York, NY). > > 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, Los Angeles, CA); and Ruth Waalkes > (Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, >College > Park, MD). > > Foundation Update > With these awards, Creative Capital's roster of artist projects grows to > 283. In 2006 the foundation issued grants in emerging fields, innovative > literature and the performing arts. Many of those grantees attended >Creative > Capital's Artist Retreat in August 2006, 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 served more than 1,700 artists. > > Creative Capital's director of grants and services, Sean Elwood, served >on > all three panels, which were moderated by Ruby Lerner, president of >Creative > Capital. > > 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, "The 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." > > Foundation Update > With these awards, Creative Capital's 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's 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. > > About Creative Capital > Ten 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's 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' 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's website at > www.creative-capital.org. > > Sustaining support for Creative Capital is currently provided by The Andy > Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, >The > TOBY 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. > > > CREATIVE CAPITAL 2009 ARTISTS > > Emerging Fields 2009 > > Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA) >New > Genres > American Land Museum > > Cesar Cornejo (Tampa, FL) Architecture > Puno Museum of Contemporary Art > > James Coupe (Seattle, WA) Digital Arts > Surveillance Suite > > Beatriz da Costa (Long Beach, CA) Digital Arts > Stories of the Rodent > > eteam, (Queens, NY) Interdisciplinary > Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger > Open Source Grabeland > > Futurefarmers (San Francisco, CA) Interdisciplinary > Local Landscape Campus (L.L.C.) > > Catherine Herdlick (San Francisco, CA) Gaming > The Cowgirl Way Society > > Shih Chieh Huang (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary > EX-SE-10 > > Lisa Jevbratt (Santa Barbara, CA) Interdisciplinary > Zoomorph > > Jae Rhim Lee (Cambridge, MA) Interdisciplinary > N=0=Infinity, Infinity Mushroom > > neuroTransmitter (Queens, NY) Interdisciplinary > Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere > Empire MHz > > Richard Pell (Pittsburgh, PA) Interdisciplinary > Institute for Post Natural Studies > > Stephanie Rothenberg (Buffalo, NY) New Genres > Best Practices > > Mark Shepard (Brooklyn, NY) New Genres > Sentient City Survival Kit > > Karolina Sobecka (Brooklyn, NY) Design > Amateur Human > > Sam Van Aken (Portland, ME) New Genres > I Am Here Today. . . > > > Innovative Literature 2009 > > Paul Beatty (New York, NY) Fiction > Depresso > > Kenny Fries (Toronto, ON, Canada) Nonfiction > Genkan: Entries into Japan > > Ben Marcus (New York, NY) Fiction > Children, Cover Your Eyes! > > Bernadette Mayer (East Nassau, NY) Poetry > The Faces That Launched A Thousand Ships > > Rebecca Solnit (San Francisco, CA) Nonfiction > Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas > > Deb Olin Unferth (Lawrence, KS) Fiction > Natural Citizens > > > Performing Arts 2009 > > Byron Au Yong (Seattle, WA) and Aaron Jafferis (New Haven, CT) Opera > Stuck Elevator: The Super-Heroic Stationary Journey of Mind Kuang Chen > > Victor D. Cartagena, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Violeta Luna, David Molina >and > Antigone Trimis > (San Francisco, CA) Performance Art > BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico) de la frontera > > Nora Chipaumire (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary > The Thomas Mapfumo Project, or lions will roar, swans will fly, angels >will > wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi > > Steve Cuiffo, (New York, NY) Trey Lyford (New York, NY) and Geoffrey >Sobelle > (Philadelphia, PA) Theater > Next Stop: Amazingland > > Lisa D'amour (Brooklyn, NY) and Katie Pearl (Austin, TX) >Interdisciplinary > How To Build A Forest > > Chris M. Green (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary > Ultra-Local Sublime > > Miguel Gutierrez (Brooklyn, NY) Dance > Misinterpreted > > Robert Farid Karimi (Minneapolis, MN) Spoken Word > The Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy > > Zoe Keating and Jeffrey Rusch (Camp Meeker, CA) Experimental Music > Performance > The Musician's Mind's Eye: A Synaesthetic Experience of 'One Cello x 16' > > Heidi Latsky Dance (New York, NY) Dance > GIMP > > Young Jean Lee (Brooklyn, NY) Theater > King Lear > > Los Angeles Poverty Department (Los Angeles, CA) Interdisciplinary > Henriette Broüwers, Kevin Michael Key, John Malpede and Pamela >Miller-Macias > History of Incarceration > > Taylor Mac (New York, NY) Theater > The Lily's Revenge > > Barak Marshall (Los Angeles, CA), Tamir Muskat (Tel Aviv, Israel) and > Margalit Oved (Los Angeles, CA) Experimental Music Performance > Symphony of Tin Cans > > David Neumann and Richard Sylvarnes (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary > OH NO NATURE (or, Blaming on his Boots the Fault of his Feet) > > Ken Nintzel (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary > You Are Here > > Tere O'Connor (New York, NY) Dance > Untitled > > Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary > Reggie Watts: Transition > > Deke Weaver (Champaign, IL) Interdisciplinary > The Unreliable Bestiary > > Download Project Descriptions and Artist Biographies (PDF) > > ### > > > Creative Capital Foundation > 65 Bleecker Street, 7th floor > New York, NY 10012 > http://creative-capital.org > 212 598 9900 > -- Art Simon simart@null.net myspace [dot] com/artsimon