Creative Capital Awards $5 Million to Fifty Artist Projects
Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Lauren McCarthy is among the awardees.
Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Lauren McCarthy, who also earned her M.F.A. from the department, is an artist based in Los Angeles whose work examines how surveillance, automation, and network culture affect our social relationships. She is the creator of p5.js, an open source programming language with over 1.5 million users, for learning creative expression through code online. She is co-director of the Processing Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields—and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities.
"Creative Capital announced today the fifty-eight recipients of awards totaling $5 million. Working in literature, performance, the visual arts, moving-image art, technology, and other disciplines, the awardees will receive up to $50,000 in project funding and an additional $50,000 in career development services.'There is no better way to mark our upcoming twentieth anniversary than by recognizing these artists and projects,' said Suzy Delvalle, Creative Capital’s president and executive director. 'The 2019 class of Creative Capital awardees is a window into some of the most innovative, exciting, and powerful work being undertaken today. We cannot wait to see how these projects develop, and how this incredible community of artists grows together and evolves.'
Among the fifty projects receiving support are niv Acosta’s BLACK POWER NAPS, a multipurpose installation and organizing space focused on rest, rejuvenation, and black joy and collaboration with Fannie Sosa; Brandon Ballengée’s Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, which will seek out Gulf species that have not been seen since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Garrett Bradley’s Love, which will provide art objects to families who have loved ones who are currently incarcerated; and Elissa Washuta’s White Magic, a personal essay collection detailing her journey in becoming a practicing witch."— Artforum, January 15, 2019
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the Artforum website.
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