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 initiatives. Every grant gives $50,000 of unrestricted venture funding alongside multi-year skilled growth and alternatives for group constructing.
The inspiration outlined in a press launch that 75% of the 2025 recipients are artists of colour, 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 The recipients vary between 29 and 72 years outdated, with artists representing 18 states throughout the US and 29 cities complete — together with Berlin, Germany, and Demorestville, Canada.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 have been awarded for initiatives in know-how, and 5 acquired grants for literary initiatives.
“From a landscape opera that tells ancestral stories of environment in the Jurassic canyons of southern Colorado, to an experimental documentary exploring migration and forensics on the South Texas border, to a project that transforms a Louisiana plantation into a site of reckoning, these 55 visionary artist proposals are boldly pushing form and ideas forward,” stated Angela Mattox, director of Artist Initiatives at Inventive Capital, in a press assertion.
The small print of every recipient and their venture can be found right here. An inventory of each grantee and their class award is appended under.
2025 Inventive Capital Awards GranteesThe 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 AokiSanta Clara, CaliforniaKoons Ruins AtlasPainting and Printmaking
Susan ChenLong Island Metropolis, New YorkChinatown Woman Scouts: Previous & PresentPainting and Printmaking
Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene CornejoIthaca, New York, and Chicago, IllinoisLANDEcological Artwork, Social Observe
Katie GrinnanLos Angeles, CaliforniaThe VaultEcological Artwork, Sculpture, Video Artwork
Vishal JugdeoLos Angeles, CaliforniaHurl a Rock, Really feel a FlameInstallation, Socially-Engaged Visible Artwork, Video Artwork
Kameron NealBrooklyn, New YorkWhat 12 months Is It?Set up, Video Artwork
Samantha NyePhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPossible PleasuresInstallation, Efficiency Artwork, Video Artwork
Jared OwensNew York, New YorkRemembering Attica: the optics of uprisingPainting and Printmaking, Sculpture, Social Observe
Steve ParkerAustin, TexasHOUSTON IS SINKINGPublic Artwork, Sculpture, Sound Artwork
Julia PhillipsChicago, IllinoisPentasomniaInstallation, Sculpture, Video Artwork
Lee PivnikMiami, FloridaThe Dwelling Room: A Symbiotic HomeArchitecture and Design, Ecological Artwork, Sculpture
Ilana SavdieBrooklyn, New YorkFestejerosPainting and Printmaking, Set up, Video Artwork
Jeremy Toussaint-BaptisteRichmond, VirginiaThere, Eyes Have been WatchingArchitecture and Design, Ecological Artwork, Public Artwork
Christine Wong YapDaly Metropolis, CaliforniaBay Home windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花Craft, Social Observe, Socially-Engaged Visible Artwork
Expertise
Morehshin AllahyariBerkeley, CaliforniaThe Remaining Indicators of Future Centuries / نشانه های باقی از سده های آتیDigital Media, Socially-Engaged Expertise
Shayla BlatchfordSanta Fe, New MexicoAnti-Uranium Mapping ProjectData Visualization, Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Expertise
Alice BucknellLos Angeles, CaliforniaEarth EngineData Visualization, Digital Media, Video games
Performing Arts
Thana AlexaJackson Heights, New YorkResonanceJazz, Music, Socially-Engaged Efficiency
Dahlak Brathwaite and Christopher MarianettiRidgewood, New York, and Jackson Heights, New YorkCOMMERCIALMultimedia Efficiency, Music, Theater
Ash FureBoston, MassachusettsANIMAL [the underground]Music, Socially-Engaged Efficiency, Opera
Susie IbarraBerlin, GermanyCHANMultimedia Efficiency, Music, Opera
yuniya edi kwon and Holland AndrewsBrooklyn, New YorkHow does it really feel to take a look at nothingMultimedia Efficiency, Music, Opera
Kate LadenheimLos Angeles, CaliforniaGestural PublicsDance, Multimedia Efficiency
Leilehua LanzilottiHonolulu, HawaiʻiLili’uOpera
Movie/Transferring Picture
Sophia Nahli AllisonLos Angeles, CaliforniaNo Kisses Like Youres’Experimental Movie, Narrative Movie
Amber BemakDallas, TexasCosmic Moose and Grizzly Bears VilleDocumentary Movie, Experimental Movie
Lori FelkerChicago, IllinoisPatientNarrative Movie
Ash Goh HuaWoodhaven, New YorkConfinement (坐月)Narrative Movie
Juan Pablo GonzálezGlendale, CaliforniaThe Measure of TimeDocumentary Movie
Darol Olu KaeLos Angeles, CaliforniaWithout a SongNarrative Movie
Angelo MadsenBurlington, VermontOUT OF ME INTO YOUDocumentary Movie, Narrative Movie, Experimental Movie
Dolissa MedinaBrownsville, TexasA Mild for Ambiguous LossDocumentary Movie, Animation, Experimental Movie
Emily Mkrtichian and Kamee AbrahamianSalt Lake Metropolis, Utah, and Demorestville, Ontario, CanadaPortalsNarrative Movie
Clyde PetersenAnacortes, WashingtonOur Forbidden CountryAnimation
TshayPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaTell Me When You Get Residence. Animation, Narrative Movie
Janelle VanderKelenKnoxville, TennesseeThe Golden ThreadAnimation, Experimental Movie
Literature
Thi BuiNew Orleans, LouisianaNOWHERELANDGraphic Novel
Concord HolidayLos Angeles, CaliforniaAfter the Finish of the WorldLiterary Nonfiction, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Literature
Jonah Mixon-WebsterFlint, MichiganThe Hauntology of SlaveryLiterary Nonfiction, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Literature
Aaron RobertsonBrooklyn, New YorkA Separate RiteLiterary Fiction, Socially-Engaged Literature
Divya VictorEast Lansing, MichiganKinLiterary Nonfiction
