Investing in Artists Who Shape the Future 20 13 “It is difficult to put Creative Capital has committed into words how powerful $29 million to 529 innovative the Creative Capital Artist Retreat has been artists with big ideas through for us, and all of our funding , counsel and career peers. It is disorienting to feel so much support, development services . encouragement and This has been another banner year for Creative Capital, including the wisdom. And we think announcement of 46 new grantees in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing we understand this Arts; our artists making national headlines and impacting communities with revolution that you are their boundary-pushing work; and our continued commitment to surrounding creating. We felt that we artists with the resources they need to be successful. were seeing the future We believe that artists are entrepreneurs in the cultural arena and that they of America in all of its deserve access to tools and resources that parallel what is available in other complicated glory—as if sectors. That’s why we partner with our grantees over the long-term to help all of these artists’ them transform their careers. We have seen our model break the cycle of artists working project-to-project, building the sustainable practices needed for them to work are one radical body, thrive as artistic visionaries and affect change as creative placemakers. each resonating on a different frequency Building on this core belief that artists with healthy careers grow healthy communities, our Professional Development Program brings our model for of the same music. Some self-management and strategic planning to artists across the U.S. Now in its more from the head, 10th year, this artist-centered system has helped 6,500 artists working in all some more from the heart, disciplines achieve success as they define it. some more from the As we look back on the last 15 years, and 2013 in particular, we have so gut, but all from a sense much to celebrate. I am incredibly proud of the Creative Capital system, and of wanting to change our even more proud of what our remarkable grantees have accomplished as they society to become a more envision and invent the world of tomorrow. compassionate, inclusive I hope you enjoy reading about some of our activities this year, and that you will and honest place.” join us in investing in artists who shape the future. Joshua Kohl & Haruko Best wishes, Nishimura, Degenerate Art Ensemble, 2013 Performing Arts

Ruby Lerner President & Founding Director Creative Capital photo by Gulshan Kirat Degenerate Art Ensemble Photo by Bruce Tom

2 CREATIVE CAPITAL 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 3 WORKING WITH ARTISTS Creative Capital’s unique model The Retreat is the centerpiece of our of grantmaking is based on the Artist Services. The 2013 Retreat in core principle that time and Williamstown, MA, was our largest advisory services are as crucial convening to date, attended by 350 to success as funding. Our artists, arts professionals and arts pioneering approach, inspired by advocates. This four-day event included venture-capital principles, helps artists presentations by 86 artists on their working in all creative disciplines realize works-in-progress, consultations and their visions and build sustainable networking events, and focus sessions practices. In addition to a total of on key issues in the field. $50,000 in financial support provided “It’s so great to know solidly that at key moments in a project’s life, we I have a team of allies to provide The 2013 grantees came to Williamstown offer each grantee a flexible program guidance. From the office staff to my two days early for Pre-Retreat workshops

WORKING WITH ARTISTS of advisory support valued at $40,000. concentrating on the public phase of Cohort leader to the team of outside their projects—helping the artists Over the last two years, we have consultants and advisors, the entire reach their desired constituencies and enhanced our Artist Services to create Creative Capital ‘family’ has rapidly maximize their impact. a more individualized structure that surrounds grantees with the resources, become the essential and primary To extend the powerful spirit of information and people they need to team in my professional life.” convening we created at the Retreat, achieve their project and career goals. Quintan Ana Wikswo, we’ve launched Community Capital, a 2013 Emerging Fields program that facilitates and financially Each grantee now has a Project supports regional gatherings organized Support Team, comprised of a staff “The infusion from Creative by Creative Capital artists throughout member, a previously funded artist who Capital’s Loan Fund allowed the year. serves as their Artist Advisor, and a us to meet pressing financial Cohort of fellow new grantees. The obligations and advance Expanded Alumni Loan Fund team may also include professionals In 2011, with funding from the Andrew across artistic disciplines and experts our work on ‘Citizen Koch.’ W. Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital in topics their work is addressing. In the face of scarce launched the Loan Fund for Performing Additionally, artists have access to foundation funding, dwindling Arts, offering low-interest loans to clinics to help guide them through government support, and grantees who have completed their legal, financial, business planning and Creative Capital-supported projects. PR questions. powerful forces that isolate Thanks to a major contribution from the political artists and push our Estate of Theo Westenberger, we Our working relationship with new work to the margins, Creative expanded the Loan Fund in 2013 to grantees begins with a three-day support new projects in all disciplines by Orientation, an intensive series of Capital always has our back.” alumni grantees. An artist can only presentations and discussions focused “Often artists want to share what Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, receive a Creative Capital grant once, on the money, space, people and time they are working on among peers 2008 Film/Video but the loan program allows us to their projects require. Grantees meet to get early feedback on a project. continue to support our grantees as they with their Artist Advisors and Cohorts to move on to their next projects, while discuss issues affecting their field and With Creative Capital’s support, also helping them build good credit and troubleshoot questions about their we organized a Community Capital learn to responsibly manage their individual practices. Our Project event at Eyebeam for grantees to financial lives. The loans, which are Workbook helps artists address these present their work, mingle and underwritten by Creative Capital, are issues and create a strategic plan accompanied by the opportunity to once they’ve returned home. exchange ideas.” participate in a financial planning clinic. eteam, 2009 Emerging Fields

4 CREATIVE CAPITAL 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 5 NEWS AND MILESTONES Creative Capital and our artists James Coupe (2009 Emerging Fields) were everywhere in 2013—in exhibited the responsive media the headlines, at major festivals and installation Swarm at the Museum of venues—and we celebrated the Contemporary Canadian Art, in premieres of 14 supported projects. conjunction with the Toronto International Film Festival. Swarm Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis marks the culmination of Coupe’s (2009 Performing Arts) premiered their Creative Capital-supported project, eclectic music-theater work Stuck Surveillance Suite, which employs Elevator at American Conservatory contemporary surveillance technology Theater in San Francisco. Based on to highlight demographic profiling the true story of a Chinese food practices. deliveryman who was trapped in an

NEWS AND MILESTONES elevator in the Bronx for 81 hours, the Rodney Evans (2008 Film/Video) production received glowing reviews celebrated the theatrical release of The and toured to the Art & Ideas Festival KEN JACOBS Happy Sad, a feature film that follows in New Haven, CT. two couples whose lives become intertwined as they explore sexual Brad Butler (2012 Film/Video) and identity and redefine monogamy. The film collaborator Karen Mirza premiered also screened at Frameline37 in San Direct Speech Acts, a series of films Francisco, QFest in Philadelphia and exploring the complexities of fearless Outfest in Los Angeles. speech, in a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center. The show was Ken Jacobs (2012 Film/Video) praised in an Artforum review by Julia premiered two new films supported by Bryan-Wilson as “an urgent and timely Creative Capital in the MoMA exhibition provocation.” Carte Blanche: Ken Jacobs, commemorating the artist’s 80th Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna birthday. These films, entitled Joys of Paravel (2012 Film/Video) celebrated Waiting for the Broadway Bus and A the theatrical release of Leviathan, Primer in Sky Socialism, represent which has screened in more than 25 LISA SIGAL Jacobs’ current experiments in digital international film festivals. The film, 3-D filmmaking. which captures the clash of man, nature and machine in the harsh Kalup Linzy (2008 Visual Arts) released theater of long-haul commercial fishing, his feature-length film Romantic Loner received rave reviews, including NPR, online, and presented a live performance , and Dennis version of the film at MoMA PS1, Lim of , who wrote, co-sponsored by the Tribeca Film LAURIE JO REYNOLDS “Leviathan looks and sounds like no Institute. other documentary in memory…” Neal Medlyn (2013 Performing Arts) DANIEL SOUSA Anita Chang (2008 Film/Video) presented King, the finale of a premiered her documentary Tongues performance series inspired by pop of Heaven, which explores the stars, at The Kitchen in New York. Built questions, desires and challenges of around Michael Jackson, King includes young indigenous peoples learning the radically rethought versions of Jackson’s languages of their forebears, at the music and considerations of Medlyn’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. personal and artistic trajectory.

LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR 6 CREATIVE CAPITAL RODNEY EVANS AND VERENA PARAVEL 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 7 NEWS AND MILESTONES Ken Nintzel’s (2009 Performing Arts) Major Awards & Milestones: In the News: You Are Here premiered in the Kyle Abraham (2013 Performing Arts) Creative Capital was the subject Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next and Vijay Iyer (2002 Performing Arts) of a Wall Street Journal feature, Wave Festival. The installation were awarded MacArthur “Genius” “Where Good Ideas Go to Live.” recreates the constellations of the Fellowships. Our 2013 Artist Retreat was night sky in physical form and Sanford Biggers (2008 Visual Arts) highlighted in articles in suspends them overhead to create a Artforum won the Berlin Art Prize. Hyperallergic, Art F City, life-size stellarium. and The Houston Chronicle. Akosua Adoma Owusu (2012 The controversy over Tia Lessin and Film/Video) won an Africa Movie Rick Prelinger’s (2012 Film/Video) Carl Deal’s film Citizen Koch was Academy Award. No More Road Trips? premiered in the the subject of a feature in The New Convergence program at the New Theaster Gates (2012 Visual Arts), Yorker, and their story was featured York Film Festival. This experimental Suzanne Lacy (2002 Emerging on hundreds of news outlets. Fields) and Naeem Mohaiemen

NEWS AND MILESTONES film takes to the highways and byways Laura Poitras (2008 Film/Video) through thousands of home movies (2008 Film/Video) were awarded helped break the NSA story in The and amateur films. Related work from Creative Time Global Residencies. Washington Post and The Guardian the Prelinger Archive is now available Lucien Castaing-Taylor (2012 Film/ (UK) after being contacted by online and through the Linger Video) won the Alpert Award in Edward Snowden. Laura was later iPhone app. the Arts. featured on the cover of The New John McManus (2013 Literature) York Times Magazine. Daniel Sousa (2008 Film/Video) BYRON AU YONG AND AARON JAFFERIS received a Fulbright to research premiered his hand-drawn animation his Creative Capital-supported Feral in the Sundance Film Festival project, a novel about gay refugees shorts competition. This film about a in South Africa. boy raised in the wild struggling to Complex Movements (2013 acclimate to human society played at Performing Arts) received the Knight dozens of festivals and received the Arts Challenge award for their Grand Prix Anima in Brussels and Creative Capital-supported project JEN BERVIN Corfu, Greece. Beware the Dandelions. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s (2008 lauren woods (2008 Visual Arts) Film/Video) Kickstarter campaign for Legislative Victories: premiered the public art installation Citizen Koch raised $169,522. The Artists Take On Social Injustice Fountains at the Dallas County 3,384 backers for this project put Laurie Jo Reynolds’ (2013 Emerging Courthouse, with a series of free them in the top one per cent of all Fields) Tamms Year Ten campaign public programs. Fountains transforms connie samaras Kickstarter campaigns. led to the closure of the Tamms a functional public drinking fountain Six Creative Capital grantees received Supermax Prison in Illinois. She was into an interactive monument to civil awarded Creative Time’s Leonore rights protests in the 1960s. Guggenheim Fellowships: luciana achugar (2013 Performing Arts), Annenberg Prize for Art and Faye Driscoll (2013 Performing Arts), Social Change. Mario Ybarra, Jr. (2008 Visual Arts) Nick Szuberla’s (2006 Emerging Curry Corndog Stand Sonali Gulati (2012 Film/Video), premiered his in Fields) Campaign for Prison Phone Around the Table: Food Barbara Hammer (2000 Film/Video), the exhibition , Justice celebrated a major victory Creativity, Community at the San Jose Ben Marcus (2009 Literature) and Carrie Moyer (2000 Visual Arts). when the Federal Communications Museum of Art. Ybarra is developing, Commission ruled to regulate inter- Dan Hurlin (2002 Performing Arts) producing and selling corndogs at this state phone charges to inmates. homemade stand to engage viewers and Reynold Reynolds (2001 Film/ around issues of food, identity, Video) received the Rome Prize. marketing and history. Penny Lane & Brian Frye’s (2012 For more artist news and events, Film/Video) Our Nixon premiered to visit creative-capital.org. rave reviews on CNN and in theaters.

8 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMILY JOHNSON 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 9 2013 AWARDEES In January, Creative Capital announced our 2013 awards to 46 projects in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts, repre-

senting an investment of $4,140,000. The remarkable artists in this Nick Hallett & Shana Moulton Trajal Harrell Natalie Jeremijenko Emily Johnson year’s class, hailing from 17 states and Puerto Rico, were selected through an open-call, three-phase application process from a pool of more than 2,700 applicants.

Read about these artists and their projects at creative-capital.org and blog.creative-capital.org.

Maryam Keshavarz & Roya Rastegar Dohee Lee Miwa Matreyek John McManus

Kyle Abraham luciana achugar Jessica Anthony Jen Bervin Jesse Bonnell Neal Medlyn Ali Momeni Mondo Bizarro (Millicent Johnnie, Sean LaRocca & Nick Slie)

Taylor Ho Bynum Wally Cardona Juan William Chávez Julia Christensen Jace Clayton Maggie Nelson Srikanth Reddy Laurie Jo Reynolds Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Susan Robb

Complex Movements (Carlos Garcia, Degenerate Art Ensemble Invincible, Wesley Taylor & Waajeed) Corey Dargel (Joshua Kohl & Haruko Nishimura) Chemi Rosado-Seijo Steve Rowell Gregory Sale Miriam Simun Makeda Thomas

Design 99 The TEAM (Jessica Almasy, Rachel Chavkin, (Mitch Cope & Gina Reichert) DD Dorvillier Faye Driscoll Michelle Ellsworth Matt Hubbs & Libby King) Elaine Tin Nyo Matias Viegener Arturo Vidich

Wakka Wakka Productions Fallen10 FruitCREATIVE CAPITAL Ghana ThinkTank (John Ewing, Maria del 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 11 (David Burns & Austin Young) Carmen Montoya & Christopher Robbins) Queen GodIs (Gabrielle Brechner, Kirjan Waage & Gwendolyn Warnock) Holcombe Waller Quintan Ana Wikswo T en years ago, we launched “The most pivotal aspect of P rofessional D evelopment rogram our Professional Development the program is the continued Program (PDP) to share with a broader community of artists the strategies for support of Creative Capital to career development that we created for all of us in Miami that have our grantees. Developed by artists for been through the program. artists, PDP provides career, community and confidence building tools to help The alumni are becoming a artists achieve success as they define it. denser part of the fabric that comprises ‘creative Miami,’ The program now includes dozens of collaborating with each other in-person and online offerings, including strategic and financial planning, and bringing new artists technology tools, verbal communications, into the mix. The pressure of branding and marketing, and community being ‘an artist’ is lessened engagement, as well as a workshop by the knowledge that I have created specifically for Spanish-speaking artists. Over the years, our workshops several others looking out for have changed lives and communities, my interests.” helping artists define and reach their Tom Virgin, Miami, FL goals, achieve financial sustainability and hone their negotiation skills. Partner organizations often report the

P rofessional D evelopment rogram transformative impact that our workshops have on artist communities in the longer term. “It would be hard to overstate To date, PDP has reached 6,500 the impact that the Creative artists in 275 communities through Capital Professional our workshops and webinars. Development Program had on my life. I participated in the “What impressed me most workshop eight years ago. was that the Creative Capital It was truly a turning point, a workshop was offered eureka event that changed in Spanish… It was the my self-image as an artist, first offering in many years changed my ability to set and of my attending meetings achieve personal and artistic sponsored by the city that goals, changed my mindset… took into account the power and set me on a path to of participants interacting connect within the art world in their native language.” that I had not imagined.” PDP Participant, Taller Lillian Warren, Houston, TX Professional de Desarollo Para Artistas (Spanish-language workshop)

12 CREATIVE CAPITAL 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 13 A ncillar y P rograms PDP is Built on Four Core Values: DOHEE LEE “It’s an immense honor to Creative Capital manages three ancillary receive this award and to programs that collectively award grants totaling more than $7.7 million each year! keep company with this Artist to Artist highly esteemed cast of In 2011, the Doris Our leaders are not only experts in what fellow awardees. The Doris Duke Charitable they teach—most are practicing artists, Foundation partnered and many are Creative Capital grantees. Duke Performing Artist with Creative Capital Leaders introduce concepts and practical Awards allows me to breathe to create the Doris tools, then share how they are used in a bit easier financially while Duke Performing Artist Awards, which their own lives. This approach helps pursuing my artistic goals offers up to $275,000 to extraordinary participants understand how they can creative talents in contemporary dance, use these skills and encourages them to with continued vim and vigor.” theater and jazz. In April, the program share resources with their peers. Rudresh Mahanthappa, announced its second class of 20 Doris 2013 Doris Duke Artist Duke Artists, including five Creative Capital grantees: Lisa D’Amour, DD Practical Tools Dorvillier, John Malpede, Tere O’Connor We understand the importance of both Juan William Chávez and Elizabeth Streb. immediate and lasting impact. PDP offers a variety of practical tools and Receiving the Arts Writers Grant The Creative Capital strategies that artists can start using was a life-changing event. I | Warhol Foundation right away, along with personalized Arts Writers Grant strategies for long-term success. became a regular critic at the Los Program, now in its

P rofessional D evelopment rogram Angeles Times, a contributing 8th year, received editor for Art on Paper, and wrote 583 applications for my first feature for ArtForum. It the most recent grant round supporting Community Building individual writers whose work addresses Our artist-to-artist model encourages was a truly gratifying experience contemporary visual art. The grants range artists to work together to strengthen to focus full-time on the work I from $3,000 to $50,000, and support a their communities. We believe love most.” wide range of writing projects, including collaboration creates vibrant and articles, blogs, books, and new and long-lasting arts communities Sharon Mizota, alternative media. The 2013 grantees will nationwide. It’s why we partner with local 2007 Arts Writers Grantee be announced in December. organizations to offer our workshops, encourage a diverse participant group The MAP Fund, and keep workshop sizes intimate. “If an artist makes a noise which is supported in the woods and no one is by the Doris Duke around to experience it, did it Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, awarded 41 grants Sustainable Success happen? MAP made it possible in 2013, representing a total of $1.2 We are dedicated to ensuring that not only for us to bring the million to new performing arts projects. Quintan Ana Wikswo artists have the newest and most performance ‘out of the woods’ The 2013 MAP Fund grantees include relevant ideas and information to thrive but also to bring an audience 12 artists who have received Creative in an increasingly complex world. We are Capital grants: Kyle Abraham, luciana committed to helping artists build to witness it.” achugar, Nora Chipaumire, DD Dorvillier communities that will continue to grow MAP Fund Grantee & Jennifer Monson, Headlong Dance together after PDP workshops, and to Theater, Emily Johnson, Daniel Alexander providing online and in-person tools to Jones, Dohee Lee, Young Jean Lee, Los help them as challenges arise. Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and Taylor Mac.

14 CREATIVE CAPITAL 2013 YEAR-END REPORT 15 Lead Donor Supporting Donors OUR SUPPORTERS The Foundation for the Visual Arts Anonymous Donors, Margarita Aguilar, Carol Allen, Jude Amsel, Janine Antoni*, Arts & Labor, Principal Donors Byron Au Yong*, Carolyn Bachman, Yona Backer, Christine Baranay, Alexandra Barker, Kate Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis, The Kresge Foundation, The Theo Barnett, Betty Beaumont*, Lana Ben Mayor, John Bennette, Amanda Berlin Knapp, Rachel Westenberger Estate, The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Paige West, Bers, Jen Bervin*, David Binder, Michael Blachly, Mike Bonanno*, Lisa Booth, Elysia Borowy- Herradura, Bloomberg Philanthropies, William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Reeder, Moira Brennan, Zoe Brill, Peter Broderick, Ellen Bruno*, Anitra Budd, Brad Butler*, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, Catharine & Jeffrey Soros, Two Sisters and a Wife Foundation, Philip Butler, Luca Buvoli*, Kimberly Burns, Blake Callaway, Ruth Charny, Rachel Chavkin*, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, John L. Thomson, Farai Chideya, Catharine Clark, Sean Clayton, Charlotte Cohen, Stephen Cohen, Stuart Comer, Anonymous, Cordish Family Foundation, Sylvia Golden, Stephen Reily & Emily Bingham, Joan Complex Movements*, Anita Cooney, Lisa Cortes, Sean Cowie, Rubin Crespo, Dean Daderko, Mitchell Foundation Charles Dan, Lisa D’Amour*, Nancy Davidson*, Brooke Davis Anderson, Caroline Deck,

OUR SUPPORTERS Major Donors Matthew Deleget, Lisa Dent, Suzanne Diamond, Andrew Dobbie, Jonathan Dorfman, Christine Anonymous, Lucy & Isadore B. Adelman Foundation, Brooke & Matthew Barzun, The BaSe D’Souza, Sandi Dubowski*, James Duesing*, Yochin Duffell, Cathy Edwards, Beverly Ehrlich, Family Fund, Sunny Bates, The Brown Foundation, Ed & Eve Colloton, DDG Foundation, Ronald Daniel Eisenberg*, Bruce Eisner, Hasan Elahi*, Benjamin Epstein, Marcio Fainziliber, Denise & Frayda Feldman, Sakurako & William Fisher, The Goldstone Family Foundation, Augusta & Felloni, Brian Ferguson, Veronica Fernandez, Courtney Fink, Erin Fiore, Kathleen Flynn, Yance Gill Holland, Colleen Keegan, Franco Mondini-Ruiz*, The O’Grady Foundation, Solutions, A Ford*, Michelle Foster, Susan Frankel, Shari Frilot, Jennifer Frutchy, Vallejo Gantner, Susan Donor Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation, Sam Van Aken*, Susan Weiler Garchia, Matthew Geller*, Richard Gerrig & Timothy Peterson, Ghana ThinkTank*, Jenny Gill, Sustaining Donors Cindy Glanzrock, Anna Glass-Coquillot, Jane Glassman, Elaine Goldman, Jacqueline Goss*, Anonymous Donors, Rebecca Barber, Cary Brown & Steven Epstein, Laura Lee Brown & Steve Brent Green*, Maura Guyote, Deana Haggag, Carol Hallock, Barbara Hammer*, Barbara Wilson, Robert M. Browne, Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Kathleen & James Cowie, Theodore Cross Harberger, Jill Hartz, Julianne Hausler, Deborah Hay, Kelly Heaton*, Anna Heatherington, Family Charitable Foundation, William Delaney, Susan Drake, Andrew Edlin, Kristy Edmunds, Taraneh Hemami*, Eric Hiebert, Shelley Hirsch*, Patricia Hogan, Taylor Ho Bynum*, Stuart Elaine Forrest & Jerry Rosen, LaToya Ruby Frazier*, Barbara Goldstein, Ken Gonzales-Day*, Horodner, Tiffany Hsu, Shih Chieh Huang*, Matt Hubbs*, Cheryl Ikemiya, Kerry Inman, Dimitri Dena & Felda Hardymon, Lisa Heller, James Henderson, Cheryl Henson & Ed Finn, Henry Itaniotis, Joan Jeanrenaurd*, Diana Jensen, Sue Johnson*, Patricia Jones, John Jureller, Heuser, Lewis Hyde, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, John Johnson & Susan Short, Rita J. and Emil Kang, Patrick Keefe, Megan Kelley-Zerne, William Kerr, Lisa Kim, Noel Kirnon, Michael Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., Scott Kaplan Belsky, Zoe Keating*, Jill & Peter Kraus, Klein Arts, Lars Knudsen, Lenora Koch, Lauren Kolumbic, Tanju Koseoglu, Lisa Kron*, Tina Lyda Kuth, Greg Kucera, Simone Leigh*, Ruby Lerner, The Seymour & Carol Levin Foundation, Labruzzo, Carolyn Lambert, Penny Lane*, Valeri Larko, Sean LaRocca*, Margaret Lawrence, Ellen Liman, Lori & Liam McGee, Norman Miller, Rick Prelinger*, Marguerite Rodgers, Scott Julie Lazar, Mariel Lebrija, George Legrady*, Tia Lessin* & Carl Deal*, Lindsay Lichtman, Fred Rosenberg, Will Rosenzweig, Paul Rucker*, Linda Saul-Sena & Mark Sena, James Schamus, Lonsdale & Nancy Roberts Lonsdale, Victoria Lynford, Marci MacGuffie, Bridget MacLean, Alexandra Shabtai, Lisa Sigal*, Kerry Skarbakka*, Snowy Owl Foundation, Eve Steele & Peter Carrie Makin, John Malpede* & Henriette Brouwers*, Denise Markonish, Diane Markrow, Gelles, Stacey Steers*, Catharine R. Stimpson, Yancey Strickler, Eve Sussman*, Noelle Tan*, Marvin Martin, Jaimie Mayer-Phinney, Jennifer* & Kevin* McCoy, Beverly McIver*, Andrew Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (in honor of Ruby Lerner), Trimpin*, Fred Wilson Mer, Ariel Meyerowitz, Drew Meyers, Thomas Micchelli, Farida Mistry, Ali Momeni*, Meredith Contributing Donors Monk*, Sarah Moore, Beth Morrison, Richard Move*, Susan Narucki*, Hilary Neidhart, Mark Anonymous Donors, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Dru Arstark, Jaime Austin, Jackie Battenfield, Newport*, Anna Nicanorova, Jason Nodler, Ethan Nosowsky, Gene Novark, Sasha Okshteyn, Miguel Benavides, Heather Bhandari, Ash Bulayev, Michelle Brastafolis, Anita Contini, Henry Ordynans, Emily Ottman, David Pacheco, Carolina Palermo Schulze, Meredith Palmer, Michelle Coffey, Michael Cox, Kimberly Cullen, Dan Desmond, Natalie Difford, Anna Dixon, Laura Parsons, Chee Pearlman, Jodi Peikoff, Tristan Perich, Carla Peterson, G.B. Phares, Sherry Dobbin, Lisa Dorin, Chris Doyle*, Alana Esposito, David Familian & Karen Moss, Stephanie Pollack, Monica Pollock, Margaret Poswistilo, Queen GodIs*, Kristen Radtke, Michael Farkas, Suzanne Fetscher, Rose Fiorentino, Ken Fishel, Kathleen Forde, Jennifer Anna Raginskaya, Roya Rastegar*, Michael Rees*, Dale Reid, Andrew Ritchie, Elisabeth Francis, Katie Freeman, Lisa Freiman, Arch Gillies, Mari-Elizabeth Gomez, Alice Gray Stites, Rivers, Christopher Robbins*, Angela Robins, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Nancy Rosen, Randy Stella Hall, Diane Hatz, Sharon Haver-Scanlon, Sophie Henderson, Richard Herskowitz, Sanj Rosen, Daniel Roumain*, Rajendra Roy, Peter Sachs, Gregory Sale*, Connie Samaras*, Hingorani, Kristina Horn, Anne Hubbell, David Hughes, Claire Johnston, JP Morgan Private Angel Sanchez, Chris Schimpf, Daniel Schnee, Jane Schreck, Dread Scott*, Steve Seid, Bank, Emily Kass, Atalie Kessler, Braden King*, Dusica Kirjakovic, Vanessa Kramer, Jennie Steven Sergiovanni, Cecil Servigon, Marie Sester*, Alfred Shands, Kelsey Shwetz, Shawn Lamensdorf, Maxine Lapiduss, Nina Lassam, Donna Lasser, Sally Morgan Lehman & Jay Sides*, Malia Simonds, Leslie Singer, Jim Skuldt*, Nick Slie*, Lauren Slone, Amy Smith*, Lehman, Gloria & Harry Lerner, Paul Limperopulos, Stephen Maguire, Carole Mallement, Kendra Smith, Mark Smith, Noel Smith, John Spiak, Tracy Steele, Michael Steinberg, Cyndi Jonathan Marlow, Stephen Marshall, Nancy Martin & Fred J. Hendler, Monique Meloche, Stivers, Kelly & Lee Stoetzel, Sarah Stoltz, Elizabeth Streb*, Christopher Sullivan*, Astria Monique Merrill, Muse Family Foundation, Jane Nixon, Celia O’Donnell & Edwin Torres, Murat Suparak, John Sutton*, Raina Sutton, Marcia Tanner, Jessica Tartell, Frederieke Taylor, Kirby Orozobekov, PD Packard, Marc Pally, Kirsten & Andy Pitts, Fred Poses, Alyson Pou, Project Tepper, Alva Teresita, Elaine Tin Nyo*, Limor Tomer, Bernadette Torres, Basil Tsiokos, Joseph Projects, Christine Reidinger, Tamara Ross, Carla Sacks, Cristina Salmastrelli, Chris Satek, Ujobai, Laurie Uprichard, Cynthia Valverde, Rebecca Velez, Arturo Vidich*, Ghislaine Vinas, Julie Saul, Jan Savarick, Leslie Schwartz, Denise Shannon, Pete Sillen*, Ira Silverberg, Allison Warden, Joan Waltemath*, Deke Weaver*, Jill Weinstock, Shannon Westerman, Faith Andrea Snyder, Scott Stoner, Jesse Sugarmann*, Lybess Sweezy, Aaron Sylvan, Brian Tate, Wilding*, Paulette Wilson, Darik Windham, Judy Zinnato, Marina Zurkow* Anya Tatum, Genna Terranova, Kristen Titus, Ela Troyano*, Liza Vann Smith, Gary Wasserman & Charles Kashner, Amy Whitaker, Ed Winkleman *Indicates Creative Capital Artist (List as of October 2013)

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