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Chico MacMurtrie receives Creative Capital Award 2024

(New York, NY) Creative Capital is pleased to announce the 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awards in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image, totaling $2.5 million in grants to artists for the creation of 50 groundbreaking new works. Chosen via a democratic process of external peer review out of 5,600 applications, these 28 successful visual arts project proposals and 22 film/moving image project proposals, representing 54 artists in total, were awarded on the basis of their innovative new approaches to painting, drawing, sculpture, public art, video art, architecture and design, printmaking, installation, documentary film, experimental film, narrative film, and socially engaged forms.

After spending two decades developing inflatable robotic sculptures that live primarily through performance, Chico MacMurtrie intends to channel the aesthetic and political concerns of his robotic projects into a new practice of creating permanent sculptural forms.

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