2026 Open Call: Creative Capital Award and State of the Art Prize

Deadline: April 3rd

The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. For the 2026 Creative Capital Open Call, Creative Capital invites professional artists to propose experimental, original, bold new works in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature from March 3–April 3, 2025. Multidisciplinary, technology, and/or socially engaged projects are welcome in all disciplinary categories.

Marking 25 years of groundbreaking artist support, Creative Capital is expanding their support of individual artists across the U.S. and its territories with the launch of a new two-year initiative—the State of the Art Prize—which aims to recognize one artist from each U.S. state and inhabited territory, with an unrestricted artist grant of $10,000.

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