Patrick Makuakane | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Photo: Jack Spicer

The Creative Work Fund

Invites artists and nonprofit organizations
to create new artworks together

The Creative Work Fund is a program of The Walter and Elise Haas Fund that also is generously supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Now reviewing proposals in literary and performing arts.

Awards will be announced August 3, 2018.

Collaboration

Grant Guidelines

News

Featured Projects

Laurie Coyle and Chicana/Latina Foundation

Suzanne Lacy and Oakland Sharing the Vision

Mica Sigourney and Queer Cultural Center

Camille Utterback and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

Celia Herrera Rodriguez and Indian People Organizing for Change

Sean Dorsey and the Community Center Project of San Francisco

Malcolm Margolin and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley

Russell Rodriguez and Teatro Visión de San José

Recent News

Sean Dorsey Premieres “Boys in Trouble,” April 19-21

Delving into queer and trans masculinity, Sean Dorsey Dance's "Boys in Trouble," premieres April 19-21 at Theater Artaud. Based on Dorsey's signature research methods and storytelling, the piece was developed in collaboration with the Community Center Project of San...

Adriana Camarena reads from “Unsettled/ Inquietos” on April 14

As part of Paseo Artístico hosted events, on April 14 at 2:30 p.m., writer Adriana Camarena, Acción Latina, and El Tecolote newspaper are presenting a free public reading of two essays from Camarena's Unsettled/Inquietos series -- issue no. 3, "Warriors in the Cove of...