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 groundbreaking new works. Chosen via a democratic process of peer review of U.S. artists, these project proposals were awarded on the basis of their innovative approaches to painting, drawing, sculpture, public art, video art, architecture and design, printmaking, installation, documentary film, experimental film, narrative film, and socially engaged forms. "The selected 50 projects poignantly navigate personal and political questions that shape our human experience and collective imaginations of the future, from Hawaiian and African diaspora, to aging in relation to geological time, to sci-fi and Afrofuturistic AI humanoids, to blood quantum, burden belts, and new monuments to Native survival and creativity.” —Dr. Aliza Shvarts, Director of Artist Initiatives, Creative Capital

Established in 1974, Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered nonprofit organization committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm.An active presence in the Bay Area, SoEx is continually evolving in response to the needs of artists and the community while engaging the public in artists' work. Central to our mission is to remain the most accessible space for visual artists to produce and present new work, learn, and connect. SoEx provides visual artists with the tools and resources they need to experiment in an open and supportive environment. We also work to advocate to new, diverse audiences and build an ever-growing community of enthusiasts and supporters of the visual arts.

I'm a freelance ECD, for both agencies and client side. For the past 25 years, I've created concepts for global and national campaigns that speak to a bigger cultural or political moment. I'm curious about real people and their stories, and I love the absurd. Besides my years in the for profit sector, I work as a professional maker and visual artist. My public art projects have been installed throughout the U.S. and I am honored to be the founder of multiple non profit projects that partner with grassroots organizations to center the voices of everyday communities.I enjoy working with creative problems of all kinds, and after many decades working with many agencies and teams, am as optimistic as ever that media can be used for good and for growth.Lastly, I direct commercials. Feel free to ask more about that.Portfolio:www.hellochristychan.com

The New York City-based John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has announced the winners of its 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships. Selected from nearly 2,500 recommended individuals on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the 180 fellows include artists, writers, and scholars. This year's fellows represent 51 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, from 81 different university institutions. This year's recipients include Olufemi O. Vaughan, a professor in Amherst College’s department of Black studies; Heather Clark, a professor of contemporary poetry and director of the Centre for International Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield; and Lek-Heng Lim, a professor in the University of Chicago’s department of statistics. In addition, gifts from previous fellows and friends of the program helped support this year’s cohort of fellows, including actor and director Robert De Niro, who underwrote Mark Thomas Gibson’s fellowship in fine arts in honor of De Niro’s father, Robert Sr., who was a 1968 Guggenheim fellow; Anthony Roberts, who underwrote a fellowship in geography and environmental studies, which was awarded to Elena Bennett of McGill University; and a bequest from the estate of Philip Roth, a 1959 fellow, in support of a variety of writers.

Responding to the ongoing epidemic of anti-Asian violence, Dear America is mobile, guerrilla public art projections project that beams 5 -15 story tall artworks on high rise buildings throughout the Bay Area, mostly without permission and in grassroots partnership with a growing network of community-based non-profit organizations that are united in a vision of equity.

I am the artist-director of "Inside Out," a large-scale, night-time video installation to be projected on to Richmond City Hall beginning August 2019. An intervention on the current mis-use of the word "wall" as a way to divide people, "Inside Out" gives the city's walls to its people. The project will display phrases submitted by local residents and workers with their thoughts on their government and community. On "live nights" we will posting projections in real-time, as phrases are sent to us. Much gratitude to the Richmond Art Commission for funding and supporting this project, during a time when free speech and activism by under-represented groups are discouraged and under threat.

I travelled around Australia, Asia and pretty much everywhere for the Dove Real Beauty global pitch. A team of ECD's at Ogilvy were planted around the globe to present and pitch the Real Beauty idea to individual countries where Unilever is officed (translation: a lot of places with great hotels and wonderful people). I was honored to be part of this project.

Writer on Marine Mammal Center, San Francisco Chronicle, Covey Wines and more.

Writer on Nike, Gun Control, Bell Sports, Got Milk? and more.