Re: Creative Capital grant for layered cello and video project

["Art Simon" <simart@gmail.com>]

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
>



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