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It is hard to explain what it feels like to know that when you get up in the morning you can just sit and write — a journal, poetry, prose — all day long until you are too tired to pick up a pencil or sit at a keyboard, until your ability to put words together cohesively slips from your fingers — not from the fatigue of a long day at a job but from a long day of words bumping up against each other as they struggle to get from your brain to the page.

— Valentine Pierce

Creative Capital Awards Alliance Grantees and Others

The Creative Capital Foundation announced today the recipients of its 2009 awards, including two artists who have received grants from the Alliance: Victor Cartagena, who received the Alliance's Visions from the New California award in 2004; and Robert Farid Karimi, who received a Midwestern Voices and Visions award in 2007.

(pictured above. left to right: Victor Cartagena, Robert Farid Karimi)

Creative Capital’s press release is below


Creative Capital celebrates ten years with the announcement of our 2009 artists!

More than $2.5 million in grants and services has been committed to 61 artists across the nation, encompassing 41 projects in three disciplines:

Emerging Fields

Matthew Coolidge: Center for Land Use Interpretation; Cesar Cornejo; James Coupe; Beatriz da Costa; eteam: Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger; Futurefarmers: Amy Franceschini, Jonathan Meuser and Michael Swaine; Catherine Herdlick; Shih Chieh Huang; Lisa Jevbratt; neuroTransmitter: Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere; Richard Pell; Stephanie Rothenberg; Mark Shepard; Karolina Sobecka; Sam Van Aken

Innovative Literature

Paul Beatty; Kenny Fries; Ben Marcus; Bernadette Mayer; Rebecca Solnit; Deb Olin Unferth.

Performing Arts

Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis; Victor D. Cartagena, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Violeta Luna, David Molina and Antigone Trimis; Nora Chipaumire; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford and Geoffrey Sobelle; Lisa D¹amour and Katie Pearl; Chris M. Green; Miguel Gutierrez; Robert Farid Karimi; Zoe Keating and Jeffrey Rusch; Heidi Latsky Dance; Young Jean Lee; Los Angeles Poverty Department: Henriette Broüwers, Kevin Michael Key, John Malpede and Pamela Miller-Macias; Taylor Mac; Barak Marshall, Tamir Muskat and Margalit Oved; David Neumann and Richard Sylvarnes; Ken Nintzel; Tere O¹Connor; Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts; Deke Weaver.

Supporting artists nationally since 1999

Ten years ago, Creative Capital reinvented arts philanthropy, constructing a new paradigm to fulfill the specific needs of the country's most innovative artists. Today, it is the premier national artist support organization, committed to the principle that time and advisory services are as crucial to artistic success as funding. Over the lives of its funded projects, Creative Capital provides artists with a flexible program of multi-faceted support and partners with them to determine how targeted funds and services can best work in concert to progress towards the grantees' own goals. Since its founding in 1999, the organization has committed more than $14 million in financial support and services to 324 projects representing 411 artists.

Read the full story at creative-capital.org

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