For the 2026 grant cycle, Creative Capital invites professional artists to propose experimental, original, bold new works in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. Multidisciplinary, technology, and/or socially engaged projects are welcome in all disciplinary categories.
Donor Name: Creative Capital
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 04/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Creative Capital seeks project proposals for formally and/or conceptually innovative works in all disciplines, including, but not limited to, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and multimedia, dance, theater, playwriting, jazz, opera, music, experimental film, documentary and narrative film, poetry, and fiction.
Creative Capital welcomes a full range of artistic approaches and thematic inquiries, including boundary-pushing formal explorations, as well as projects that engage urgent social issues of the time. Creative Capital also seeks new projects or works addressing subjects that Creative Capital has not previously funded. For example, for this grant cycle, Creative Capital also seeks strong visual arts projects dealing with fentanyl, veterans/military, or wealth inequality.
The Creative Capital Award seeks project proposals in the following disciplines:
- Visual Arts: architecture & design, craft, drawing & illustration, ecological art, installation, painting & printmaking, performance art, photography, public art, sculpture, social practice, sound art, video art, technology, and socially-engaged visual art
- Performing Arts: dance, jazz, multimedia performance, music, musical theater, opera, theater, playwriting, technology, and socially-engaged performing arts
- Film: animation, documentary film, experimental film, and narrative film
- Literature: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Funding Information
The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work.
Eligibility Criteria
- US citizen, permanent legal resident, O-1 visa holder, or Tribal ID holder
- At least 25 years old by application deadline
- Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice within their chosen discipline
- Applicant may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program
- May not apply to the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant program in the same year
- May not have previously received a Creative Capital Award
- May not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year
- State of the Art Prize recipients must be a resident of the state they are awarded in through February 1, 2026. Prize recipients must provide proof of residence in their state or territory to receive the grant.
For more information, visit Creative Capital.
