Librería Donceles, the only used Spanish-Language bookstore in NyC, wants to travel through the US to promote Spanish-language culture
Help support our board member Pablo Helguera's incredible project!
A dynamic weekend of artist programming and activations in LA to conclude LAND’s cross-country billboard art exhibition along I-10.
Help our friends at LAND create groundbreaking public art projects around LA!
Help bring a new metal sculpture "Ascension" to Hudson Yards, in New York.
Help bring this awesome sculpture to midtown Manhattan!
A photographic essay, about the Salton Sea as it is today after the calamities it has endured in the last 100 plus years.
Gorgeous, haunting photographs document an environmental disaster.
BOMB publishes conversations between artists online every day. We need your support to pay our contributors!
BOMB = essential
Bring exciting art, music, and performance projects to life by rebuilding San Francisco's most important space for experimental art!
Support our friends at one of San Francisco's most important spaces for experimental art.
SculptureCenter presents Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's first museum survey in the United States, opening January 2015.
The Drawing Center wants to restore some of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's seminal artworks in time for her first museum survey in the U.S. And who can say no to a limited edition by Korakrit Arunanondchai?
Help us stage a groundbreaking exhibition on performance art in the Arab world through rare archives & new contemporary artworks
Help our awesome friends at Delfina Foundation produce this exhibition on performance art in the Arab world.
Our 7th book is a first for us! A war photographer won the 2013 Aftermath grant to return to Chechnya to explore the aftermath there.
Support this photo project that explores the under-documented aftermath of conflict.
Artist Duke Riley embarks on an epic journey to China to reenact a legendary race amongst 12 animals that determined the Chinese zodiac
Former Creative Time Global Resident Duke Riley is heading to China on a crazy new adventure.
In NYC, 2 days before the U.N. Climate Summit, a giant ice sculpture of the words THE FUTURE will melt away in lower Manhattan.
Help support this awesome melting art project, planned to coincide with 350.org's climate march this fall.
After ten years of publishing free online content on a daily basis, Guernica is going analog. Pre-order your copy of our first Annual.
Help out our friends at Guernica turn their superb online journal into print!
I'm creating a poetic video centered on race, class and sexuality as it relates to the historical context of sugar.
It's already funded (woo!) but we have to give this inspiring project a shoutout.
Can't wait to see the final product!
The New Movement works tirelessly to put Nola on the comedy map. This project will upgrade our theater and production facilities.
Improv for everyone in New Orleans!
A two-week sleep away arts camp for child survivors of sexual slavery in Kenya
The power of art to heal.
Be a part of an unprecedented exhibition by artist and activist Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Island.
We couldn't be more excited about this public project. It has everything we like: Ai Weiwei working on grand scale in an iconic public space. Help make it a reality!
A design project dedicated to defining the borough of Queens through its people with interviews, photographs, and a resource directory.
This is awesome. Using art/design to tell the story of an NYC borough through the eyes of its residents.
This no-holds-barred look at the making of Brooklyn hip may just be the funniest documentary to ever come busting out of the art world.
Best backer gifts ever! I'm throwing a party in Mandie's which I've done before (at SEVENmiami) and it was amazing. This project rocks. - Creative Time Social Media Guy (TMF)
Help take the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts to an international audience with a new online presence.
MoCADA isn't just a wonderful neighborhood museum, it's reaching out as far as it can. Give them a hand if you can!
QUESTION BRIDGE INTERACTIVE is a platform that reveals the true complexity, diversity, and humanity within an identity group.
This is an incredible and captivating project. Maybe you saw an iteration of it Brooklyn Museum where it sucked in all kinds of visitors to watch the video clips for hours. Support if you can!
A film about finding redemption in a broken system. Written and acted by NYC foster care youth. Based on their lives. 1 day left!
When you want the real story of what it's like to be in foster care, who better to ask than the young people who know. Please support this film if you can!
Help us RELAUNCH & EXPAND a Portland institution and a rare outlet for indie media, small press, zines, and D.I.Y. culture!
Reading Frenzy is part of what makes Portland a great reading city. Help keep this indie bookstore with a penchant for zines and books you won't find elsewhere alive!
A multimedia exhibit featuring a Marine's war diary, using text, photos and video to explore the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.
We look forward to the Bronx Documentary Center exhibit of this intimate look at what life was like for a Marine in Iraq. Help out if you can to make the exhibit great!
A creative, sustainable building project sharing knowledge and resources through the creation of homes and community spaces in Haiti.
Please help our friend Swoon build these beautiful sustainable shelters for Haitian people who need a roof over their heads.
We are re-opening our local bakery as a community run business and training facility. Homebaked needs an oven to start baking on site.
Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, 2011 winner of Creative Time's Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, is working with local community members to re-open this historic bakery and make it a place of learning and public discourse. Watch the video and donate a pound or two!
The first documentary feature to tell the story of the birth of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1960’s.
98% funded, but only a couple days to go. This is a documentary we want to see!
Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, meets Zapatista Mayan Artist in Zapatista territory to create some ART.
The winners of this year's Open Call for a presentation at the Creative Time Summit need your help with $1 (or more). Look what a $1 donation gets you though! I'm doing it. - TF
HAT is a documentary book for a series of projects that explore how people act together through collaborative experimentation.
We want to see this student art project result in a great book! Help Kendell out with a $ or $$ or $$$.
Our friends Throw Vision will be the official 2012 Creative Time Summit band. We hope you'll consider supporting their forthcoming album.
Whoohoo! We made our baseline goal. Thank you! Let's keep going, let's beat our goal. More $ means brighter projectors!
The Illuminator is a tactical media machine (aka a van with a really powerful projector, sound system, and library) that has been roaming the streets of NYC and beyond, bringing the spirit and message of the movement of the 99% to street corners and public squares everywhere.
"The Real World" meets "No Exit." Habit is a cross between installation, performance, and theater, and it's never the same thing twice.
An exciting project proposal for the same Essex Street Market space we used for Living as Form (2011) and Mike Nelson's Psychic Vacuum (2007).
We're melting down ice sculptures of the words "Middle Class" at the Republican and Democratic Conventions in Tampa and Charlotte.
A project which will melt your expectations about the limitations of ice sculpture.
Art on Track transforms a 6-car CTA train into the worlds largest mobile art gallery.
Art on Track, the world's largest mobile art gallery, takes over a six-car train on the "L" in Chicago. Help keep the commute interesting.
Eyebeam = open source & open content; to make what we do open to all, we are creating a new public space for books, exhibits & coffee.
I think we can all agree that the edition of a place to get a cup of coffee in Chelsea is much needed. Help our friends at Eyebeam create a public space for caffeinating, thinking, and energized discussion.
Other Travel is a collaborative art project that aims to be presented in the form of a publication in conjunction with an exhibition.
We're going to Mars, but Brooklyn artists Haydan Dunham and Meriem Bennani are going to a whole different universe. The Other Travel Project will invite a group of artists and writers to participate in a collaborative art project exploring "The Other World."
Help this community-supported residency program build studios and improve its community kitchen garden!
Project director Nicholas Weist is also a beloved Creative Time alum. We're thrilled that he's gone on to create this amazing opportunity for artists to live and work in a gorgeous peaceful environment.
THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING! follows a band of Muslim-American comedians on a standup tour across the US. You will laugh at these Muzzies!
This movie is going to be hilarious with or without you. But, you'll feel better about yourself if you support Jon Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Lewis Black, David Cross and oodles of other comics in a flick by Negin Farsad and some other guy.
Kulturpark is a collaborative investigation and public opening in an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin
This exciting project was recommended to us by Creative Time alum Aliya, who says, "...this project below is going to be amazing and is run by the directors of Go Elsewhere (www.goelsewhere.org), a rad alternative art museum in Greensboro, North Carolina...."
A personal narrative photo book, spanning 3 generations, exploring 1 family's failure of the American Dream. Funds needed to complete.
Help support our friend Lisa Kereszi's new project. Lisa's 2004 photos of Governors Island gave many people an intimate first look at the state of the space.
T.A.G. (Teen Art Gallery) is an organization run for teens by teens that features young artists, ages 12-19, in New York City galleries
Help T.A.G. fund their upcoming shows in Chelsea and Soho. In their words: "We are paying for every artist's framing. We are paying for every artists transportation. We are paying for everything!" — they need your help!
Elastic City commissions artists to lead conceptual and poetic walks throughout and outside of NYC. Please support our 2012 season.
Become an active participant in some of the most engaging explorations of the urban environment that we know of.
This Fall, Not An Alternative will open a new venue for art, activism, technology, and theory called No-Space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
No-Space — a gallery and collaborative workspace run by Creative Time Summit presenters Not an Alternative — is host to free lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations.
n+1 and several talented associates have put together a quick history, analysis, and documentation of OWS. Now just need to print it.
Help n+1 create an issue inspired by OWS, for OWS.
A media collective affiliated with Occupy Wall Street producing free printed material about the movement for the general public.
The title speaks for itself. This newspaper will be printed in 50,000 copies and will spread all over New York City the news of what's happening right now in the heart of the world's financial capital.
Beautiful Trouble will be a book & web toolbox that puts the best practices of creative action in your hands.
Think of it as a necessary school supply for creative mischief.
The Yes Men are launching The Yes Lab so activist groups and individuals can carry out creative, media-getting actions of their own!
When we awarded the first ever Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change to The Yes Men at the Creative Time Summit in 2009, we were convinced that they would, indeed, fix the world. Now you can help.
Gourmet food, art, music, and design trucks convene at The Crown Victoria Bar to celebrate the mobility and changing landscape of NYC.
A free cultural festival featuring art, music, food in the Lower East Side of NYC. And, come on, it's called TRUCK YEAH.
Dirty Looks is a roaming, monthly series designed to trace contemporary queer aesthetics through historical works by presenting quintessential GLBT film and video alongside up-and-coming artists and filmmakers.
Swoon and a growing group of musicians and kinetic sound artists are turning a house into an instrument in the city of New Orleans.
Creative Time Global resident Swoon is designing a house/musical instrument in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans to revamp the sense of community through architecture and music.
An initiative to build a floating pool that filters river water off the shores of New York City.
Working with local cultural, developmental and environmental groups, the +Pool initiative plans to investigate the possibility of building a floating, filtered, natural swimming pool in right here in the city.
This fall, Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School will launch 155 Freeman, a new arts-and-culture center in Brooklyn.
Three of our favorite NYC-based orgs—Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School—launch a new arts-and-culture center in Greenpoint as a hub for performances, classes, artist talks, panels, workshops, and screenings.
Ray Smith Studio Presents! The Art School Without Walls Vol. 1.
The Art School Without Walls seeks to revive the spirt of apprenticeship in the arts by engaging inner-city kids in the making of significant and enduring works of art. This inaugural project, a mural workshop with Sofia Maldonado, will produce an original large scale mural.
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the first feature-length documentary about China's (in)famous artist and activist, Ai Weiwei.
Begun two years before Ai Weiwei's detention by Chinese officials, the film will chronicle the life, work, and ever-increasing significance of China's most outspoken artist.
Graduates of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program will create an open archive of urban experience. Using unique QR code tags collaborators can make their personal experiences of the city accessible in physical space.
A 1:1 scale F-117, framed in wood and covered in astroturf. It will be on a grassy field on Governor's Island, NYC all summer.
Astroturf + Governor's Island. What's not to like?
The Open Utopia is an open-source, open-access, multi-platform, web-based edition of Thomas More’s Utopia.
Stephen Duncombe’s Open Utopia Project will leverage new media technologies to create an edition of Thomas Moore’s Utopia that is open to use, open to copying, and open to modification.
FEAST is Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics. Over a locally-sourced organic supper, FEAST democratically curates and funds local artists.
Presenters at the second Creative Time Summit, FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers.
Help re-open the café on E. 4th St. that serves as a vital community gathering space for artists, audiences, and the community.
Help our friends at the Fourth Arts Block provide a new hub for the arts on East 4th Street...and a new hub for our morning cups of Joe.
A 9ft tall x 20ft long flashing sign and digital scoreboard asking passers by "CAPITALISM works for me!" true or false?
Artist Steve Lambert, the man behind Add-Art, wants to know if capitalism works for you! Steve says, "This is what art does well - it creates a space where new ideas and perspectives can be explored." We agree.