Inventive Capital Awards $2.45M to 55 Artists


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 The recipients vary between 29 and 72 years outdated, with artists representing 18 states throughout the US and 29 cities whole — together with Berlin, Germany, and Demorestville, Canada.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

The Inventive Capital Basis chosen 55 artists and collectives for its annual grant award from a pool of over 5,600 candidates. (picture courtesy Inventive Capital)

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

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