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State of the Art Prize
Creative Capital, United States (National)
United StatesWinners: Katie Baldwin Basile, Karen Brummund, Danielle Hatch +50 more.
The odds
1 in42got in
- Applications4,546
- Places, per organiser109
- Winners53
Winners
53State of the Art Prize, USD 10,000 unrestricted grant
- United StatesKatie Baldwin BasilePhotojournalist, documentary photographer and filmmaker focused on her home, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska.
A flap of tundra hangs off of an eroding island exposing thawing permafrost near Kasigluk, Alaska on July 11, 2023. Katie Baldwin BasileSource: creative-capital.org - United StatesKaren BrummundProcess-driven visual artist who creates video installations on architectural facades.
Karen Brummund, 98 Wentworth, video installation, 2023Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesDanielle HatchPeruvian American artist based in the Arkansas Ozarks.
Our Story, 2025Danielle Hatch, Our Story, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesCaroline TraceyWriter whose work centers on the Southwestern US, Mexico, and their borderlands.Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
- United Statesbrooke smileyWahzhazhe (Osage) body and earth artist based in Chumash homelands of California.
EARTH.SPEAKS, 2025brooke smiley, EARTH.SPEAKS, performance documentationSource: creative-capital.org - United StatesYumi Janairo RothArtist with a research-based practice of projects built around social engagement and site-specific installation.
We Are Coming, 2024Yumi Janairo Roth and Emmanuel David, We Are Coming, Cavite City, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesJessica Sarah RinlandArgentine-British artist filmmaker (b. 1987).
Collective Monologue, 2024Jessica Sarah Rinland, Collective Monologue, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesB ProudPhotographer, artist and activist whose work features socially conscious documentary projects.
Transcending Love, 2017B. Proud, Transcending Love: Owen William Elliot Miller and Blue Montana, 2017Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesGabriella García PardoColombian-American documentary filmmaker examining our relationship to land, identity, and contested spaces.
Backside, 2025Gabriella García Pardo, Backside, feature film, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesNydia BlasVisual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
You Are the Offering, 2025Nydia Blas, You Are the Offering, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesR. Zamora LinmarkWriter born in Manila and raised and educated in Hawaii.Open Mic @ Mandoo Lily's Never-Ending Memorial Service
- United StatesLorenzo TriburgoTrans*queer performance and lens-based artist working with Sarah Van Dyck as the Van Burgo Collective.
Shimmer Shimmer, 2025Lorenzo Triburgo, Shimmer Shimmer, installation, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesSarah SentillesWriter, teacher, critical theorist and author of many books, including Draw Your Weapons, winner of the 2018 PEN-America Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours, 2021Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours, book cover, 2021Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesAriel StessObie Award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter and producer originally from Santa Fe, NM.
KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA, 2024Ariel Stess, KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA, production at The Tank, NYC, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesBrandon MeeksJazz bassist, composer and cultural advocate whose work blends jazz, soul and hip hop.
3rd Sunday Jazz Concerts, 2025Brandon Meeks, 3rd Sunday Jazz Concerts, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesShannon StewartWorks at the intersection of dance, writing, film and cultural organizing, shifting between punk materiality and abstraction.
FOREST, 2024Shannon Stewart, FOREST, performance installation, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesRachel ElliottAuthor-illustrator of kids' books; first graphic novel won a Stonewall Honor.
The Real Riley Mayes, 2022Rachel Elliott, The Real Riley Mayes, book cover, 2022Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesRenee BensonBlack avant garde musical artist, cultural bearer and compassionate futurist living in New Orleans.
The Want of Spring, 2025Renee Benson, Ladies in Blue, fieldwork for The Want of Spring, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesDanielle WoodArtist, Black studies scholar and engineer.
Harriet, 2025Danielle Wood, Harriet Bedrest, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesMadeline Maxine RomanStages fraught yet fruitful conversations about what it means to be human in the digital age.
Rinse & Repeat, 2025Rinse & Repeat, choreography by Madeline Maxine Roman, featuring James Madison University's Virginia Repertory Dance Company, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesKate GreeneArtist exploring the cultural and ecological mythologies of the American landscape.
Black Sun, 2023Kate Greene, Black Sun, 2023Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesAsh ArderTransdisciplinary artist whose research-based approach works to expose, deconstruct or reconfigure physical and conceptual systems.
Consumables, 2024Ash Arder, Consumables, installation, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesRosy SimasSeneca (Heron Clan) transdisciplinary and dance artist who works with the movement of images, objects, sound and the body.
A:gajë:gwah dësa'nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind), 2026Installation view, A:gajë:gwah dësa'nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 12 Feb-5 Jul 2026Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesZachariah EzerPlaywright and Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis whose work animates theoretical quandaries through theatrical forms.
Address the Body!, 2023"Address the Body!" production photo, 2023Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesCoulter FussellArtist making mixed-media quilts and experimental upholsteries sewn entirely from donated clothes and textiles.
Dare Devil, 2026Coulter Fussell, Dare Devil, textiles and upholstery, 2026Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesMaxim LoskutoffNovelist and short story writer from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana.
Old King, 2025Maxim Loskutoff, Old King, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesJazsalynAfro-Carolinian artist and technologist developing Ancestral Intelligence as a framework for alternative AI.
Remember Gullah Island, 2025Jazsalyn, Remember Gullah Island, five-channel video, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesElle BillingDisabled mixed media artist, educator and podcaster based in the Midwest.
The Failure Experiment, 2025Elle Billing, The Goddess of Love, painting, 2025Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesHannah DemmaMultimedia artist and papermaker with an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
ChromethesiaHannah Demma, ChromethesiaSource: creative-capital.org - United StatesAspen GolannFurniture maker, artist and educator whose work blends historic woodworking with contemporary themes of gender and power.
Courting Chairs, 2026Aspen Golann, Courting Chairs, 2026Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesDahlia ElsayedWorks with Andrew Demirjian using textiles, sculpture, design and sound to create immersive installations that challenge perceptual hierarchies.
SK3000, 2024Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian, SK3000, installation view, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesSamantha BurnsFiction writer who grew up in North River, New York, a hamlet in the southern Adirondacks.There Are No Strangers Here
- United StatesJJ PeñaQueer writer and educator living in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- United StatesBrydie O'ConnorKansas-born, New York based filmmaker and archivist.
Barbara Forever, 2026Brydie O'Connor, Barbara Forever, film still, 2026Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesMadeline ffitchAuthor of the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn, the novel Stay and Fight, and the forthcoming novel Avalon, Rise.
Avalon, Rise, 2026Madeline ffitch, Avalon, Rise, book cover, 2026Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesBrad RoseArtist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose work spans sound, visual art and writing.
Future Topographies, 2024Brad Rose, Future Topographies, cyanotype installation, 2024Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesJuniper HarrowerArtist, feminist ecologist and scholar whose research focuses on multispecies entanglements in the context of climate change and interspecies care.
Ecologies of CareJuniper Harrower, Ecologies of CareSource: creative-capital.org - United StatesBL ShirelleSongwriter, rapper and producer, formerly incarcerated artist and Co-Executive Director of FREER Records.
Assata Troi, 2020BL Shirelle, Assata Troi, album cover collage portrait, 2020Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesAyumi IshiiJapanese visual artist whose work explores the minute interconnectedness of living experiences through observing breath, body temperature and moisture.
Desublimation, 2013Ayumi Ishii, Desublimation, installation, 2013Source: creative-capital.org - United StatesTanya Wideman-DavisDancer, choreographer and teacher; Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and co-director of Wideman Davis Dance.
Prizes, shows and programme
- prize
- USD 10,000 unrestricted grant to one artist in each US state, Guam, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
- result
- 53 State of the Art Prize artists; the same open call also selected 49 Creative Capital Award artists (109 in total) from 4,546 applications
- What the call offered
- $10,000 unrestricted artist grant.
- Who could apply
- Same as Creative Capital Award: non-students, 25+ years old, with at least five years of professional practice. One artist selected per U.S. state and territory.
Sources
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