The Inventive Capital Basis has introduced the recipients of its annual grant awards, amounting to $2.45 million allotted throughout 55 artists and collectives for 49 particular person tasks. Every grant gives $50,000 of unrestricted mission funding alongside multi-year skilled improvement and alternatives for neighborhood constructing.
Based in 1999, Inventive Capital intentionally faucets “risk-taking, underinvested artists” who work throughout visible and performing arts, structure and design, movie, and literature to facilitate socially engaged and culturally significant tasks. Concord Vacation, Rashaad Newsome, Morehshin Allahyari, Susan Chen, and Ilana Savdie are among the many awardees chosen from a pool of over 5,600 candidates.
The muse outlined in a press launch that 75% of the 2025 recipients are artists of coloration, 56% establish as ladies, and 18% establish as gender non-conforming, transgender, or nonbinary. Artists with disabilities make up 11% of the awardee cohort. The recipients vary between 29 and 72 years outdated, with artists representing 18 states throughout the US and 29 cities whole — together with Berlin, Germany, and Demorestville, Canada.
Among the many grantees, 14 are visible artists, 15 work in performing arts, 12 are within the movie and shifting picture sector, three had been awarded for tasks in know-how, and 5 obtained grants for literary tasks.
“From a panorama opera that tells ancestral tales of surroundings within the Jurassic canyons of southern Colorado, to an experimental documentary exploring migration and forensics on the South Texas border, to a mission that transforms a Louisiana plantation right into a web site of reckoning, these 55 visionary artist proposals are boldly pushing type and concepts ahead,” mentioned Angela Mattox, director of Artist Initiatives at Inventive Capital, in a press assertion.
The small print of every recipient and their mission can be found right here. An inventory of each grantee and their class award is appended beneath.
2025 Inventive Capital Awards Grantees

Visible Arts
Kathy Aoki
Santa Clara, California
Koons Ruins Atlas
Portray and Printmaking
Susan Chen
Lengthy Island Metropolis, New York
Chinatown Lady Scouts: Previous & Current
Portray and Printmaking
Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene Cornejo
Ithaca, New York, and Chicago, Illinois
LAND
Ecological Artwork, Social Apply
Katie Grinnan
Los Angeles, California
The Vault
Ecological Artwork, Sculpture, Video Artwork
Vishal Jugdeo
Los Angeles, California
Hurl a Rock, Really feel a Flame
Set up, Socially-Engaged Visible Artwork, Video Artwork
Kameron Neal
Brooklyn, New York
What Yr Is It?
Set up, Video Artwork
Samantha Nye
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Potential Pleasures
Set up, Efficiency Artwork, Video Artwork
Jared Owens
New York, New York
Remembering Attica: the optics of rebellion
Portray and Printmaking, Sculpture, Social Apply
Steve Parker
Austin, Texas
HOUSTON IS SINKING
Public Artwork, Sculpture, Sound Artwork
Julia Phillips
Chicago, Illinois
Pentasomnia
Set up, Sculpture, Video Artwork
Lee Pivnik
Miami, Florida
The Dwelling Room: A Symbiotic House
Structure and Design, Ecological Artwork, Sculpture
Ilana Savdie
Brooklyn, New York
Festejeros
Portray and Printmaking, Set up, Video Artwork
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Richmond, Virginia
There, Eyes Have been Watching
Structure and Design, Ecological Artwork, Public Artwork
Christine Wong Yap
Daly Metropolis, California
Bay Home windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花
Craft, Social Apply, Socially-Engaged Visible Artwork
Know-how
Morehshin Allahyari
Berkeley, California
The Remaining Indicators of Future Centuries / نشانه های باقی از سده های آتی
Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Know-how
Shayla Blatchford
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Anti-Uranium Mapping Mission
Knowledge Visualization, Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Know-how
Alice Bucknell
Los Angeles, California
Earth Engine
Knowledge Visualization, Digital Media, Video games
Performing Arts
Thana Alexa
Jackson Heights, New York
Resonance
Jazz, Music, Socially-Engaged Efficiency
Dahlak Brathwaite and Christopher Marianetti
Ridgewood, New York, and Jackson Heights, New York
COMMERCIAL
Multimedia Efficiency, Music, Theater
Ash Fure
Boston, Massachusetts
ANIMAL [the underground]
Music, Socially-Engaged Efficiency, Opera
Susie Ibarra
Berlin, Germany
CHAN
Multimedia Efficiency, Music, Opera
yuniya edi kwon and Holland Andrews
Brooklyn, New York
How does it really feel to take a look at nothing
Multimedia Efficiency, Music, Opera
Kate Ladenheim
Los Angeles, California
Gestural Publics
Dance, Multimedia Efficiency
Leilehua Lanzilotti
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Lili’u
Opera
Damon Locks
Chicago, Illinois
Reside from CPS
Dance, Music, Socially-Engaged Efficiency
Rashaad Newsome
Oakland, California
I Come As One, However Stand As One Thousand
Dance, Multimedia Efficiency, Music
Paola Prestini
Brooklyn, New York
Sensorium Ex
Music, Opera, Socially-Engaged Efficiency
Ashwini Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy, and Ranee Ramaswamy Minneapolis, Minnesota, and La Cañada Flintridge, California
The Liminal Museum
Dance, Multimedia Efficiency, Socially-Engaged Efficiency
Zane Rodulfo
Saint Albans, New York
SHOUTER!
Jazz, Multimedia Efficiency, Socially-Engaged Efficiency
Marike Splint
Los Angeles, California
SHOW FULL HISTORY
Multimedia Efficiency, Theater
Sister Sylvester
New York, New York
Ghost Genes
Multimedia Efficiency
Takahiro Yamamoto
Portland, Oregon
Hole Heart
Dance, Multimedia Efficiency
Movie/Shifting Picture
Sophia Nahli Allison
Los Angeles, California
No Kisses Like Youres’
Experimental Movie, Narrative Movie
Amber Bemak
Dallas, Texas
Cosmic Moose and Grizzly Bears Ville
Documentary Movie, Experimental Movie
Lori Felker
Chicago, Illinois
Affected person
Narrative Movie
Ash Goh Hua
Woodhaven, New York
Confinement (坐月)
Narrative Movie
Juan Pablo González
Glendale, California
The Measure of Time
Documentary Movie
Darol Olu Kae
Los Angeles, California
With out a Tune
Narrative Movie
Angelo Madsen
Burlington, Vermont
OUT OF ME INTO YOU
Documentary Movie, Narrative Movie, Experimental Movie
Dolissa Medina
Brownsville, Texas
A Gentle for Ambiguous Loss
Documentary Movie, Animation, Experimental Movie
Emily Mkrtichian and Kamee Abrahamian
Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, and Demorestville, Ontario, Canada
Portals
Narrative Movie
Clyde Petersen
Anacortes, Washington
Our Forbidden Nation
Animation
Tshay
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Inform Me When You Get House.
Animation, Narrative Movie
Janelle VanderKelen
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Golden Thread
Animation, Experimental Movie
Literature
Thi Bui
New Orleans, Louisiana
NOWHERELAND
Graphic Novel
Concord Vacation
Los Angeles, California
After the Finish of the World
Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Literature
Jonah Mixon-Webster
Flint, Michigan
The Hauntology of Slavery
Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Literature
Aaron Robertson
Brooklyn, New York
A Separate Ceremony
Literary Fiction, Socially-Engaged Literature
Divya Victor
East Lansing, Michigan
Kin
Literary Nonfiction