Creative Capital grant for layered cello and video project

[info at zoekeating <info@zoekeating.com>]

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)

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