Creative Capital

In fy22 Creative Capital funded a new cohort of 50 awardee projects. The organization continued to invest in multi-year relationships with artists who were awardees in past years. Creative Capital continues to provide non-monetary support to awardees in the form of consultations and meetings at key moments in the lives of the funded projects by assisting with planning, marketing and distribution. In fy22, the organization also continued to offer skills building webinars to Creative Capital awardees and non-awardee artists in the subjects of fundraising, public relations, marketing, strategic planning and social media. Also in fy 22, Creative Capital hosted two in-person community building events for awardees. These were the first in-person Creative Capital events since the covid pandemic began in march 2020. Creative Capital also administered the 2022 hewlett 50 art commissions for media arts awards as well as piloted a partnership with kickstarter to fund creators of color with the Creative Capital x skoll creators fund.the arts writers grant program made 20 new grants to arts writers. The program also continued to provide a group of their grant applicants with the opportunity to meet with arts writings professionals for advice and consultations on their work.