by Natalia Vigil | Jul 10, 2025 | News
On April 17, 2025, 150 Creative Work Fund (CWF) artists, organization leaders, and philanthropic peers gathered at SOMArts in San Francisco for “Celebrating CWF, Celebrating You,” a milestone event honoring three decades of creative collaboration and...
by Natalia Vigil | Oct 21, 2024 | News
We’re reimagining and refreshing how the Creative Work Fund engages with and supports the Bay Area arts community. Since the Creative Work Fund (CWF) was formed 30 years ago in response to several years of declining support for artists and new art works, we’ve awarded...
by Natalia Vigil | Jun 28, 2024 | 2024, News
The Creative Work Fund is pleased to award 17 new grants to Greater Bay Area artists collaborating with community organizations to develop new works of visual art, theater, music composition, dance, artistic activism, social practice, and more. Grantees continue to...
by Team CWF | Apr 19, 2024 | 2022, Literary Arts, News
CWF 2022 grantees Cleavon Smith and Walking Cinema’s collaboration opens on April 26, 2024 as a new immersive theater production in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. The Fillmore Eclipse explores the glorious history of Black art and entrepreneurship in...
by Team CWF | Mar 14, 2024 | News
The Creative Work Fund notes with great sadness the sudden passing of Jess Curtis, who was awarded three Creative Work Fund grants to collaborate with Counterpulse (2006), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2010), and Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired...
by Team CWF | Oct 6, 2023 | 2018, News, Performing Arts
2018 CWF grantees Del Sol Quartet and Alam Khan premiere their collaboration The Resonance Between October 13 & 14 at the Presidio Theatre. The work includes creative collaborators Arjun K. Verma (sitar), Jack Perla (composer), and Nilan Chaudhuri (tabla) among...
