Creative Capital

What is Creative Capital?

Creative Capital is an investment fund that operates in the realm of supporting individual artists across various disciplines.

They focus on championing visionary artists by providing them with the Creative Capital Award, a grant designed to offer comprehensive support for artists to realize specific projects. Their investment thesis revolves around fostering the creation of groundbreaking and challenging new works in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Technology, Film/Moving Image, and Literature. Creative Capital takes an approach that emphasizes the importance of creative risk-taking and dynamic, innovative ideas which have the potential to resonate within and potentially transform communities and the arts sector as a whole.

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, they have expanded their artist support through the introduction of the State of the Art Prize and the 2026 Open Call, which seeks proposals for new artistic works.

Their 2025 award cohort illustrated a strong commitment to diversity, providing a significant percentage of awards to artists of color, women, gender-nonconforming, nonbinary, trans artists, and artists with disabilities, ensuring a broad range of voices and perspectives are supported.

In addition to funding, Creative Capital also serves the wider artist community with educational resources, such as the Creative Capital Curriculum and Artist Opportunities listings.

Their impact reaches a national scale, having supported hundreds of artists in a multitude of cities, demonstrating their considerable influence within the creative landscape of the United States.