We support creative practitioners from across disciplines and fields through our grants program and creative collaborations on life-giving futures. If you would like to collaborate, tell us about your work at info@creative-states.org. We read and appreciate each introduction, and while we are not able to respond to every email, we will contact you when interest and timing aligns. Our initiatives are continuously evolving and expanding. Follow us on Instagram to see what we are exploring or connect with us if you would like to support our mission and join our community.
Grants ProgramOur grants program funds a work of art, architecture, design or creative enterprise that fosters more visceral, engaged and imaginative participation in shaping a life-giving future.
Example: Museum of 21st Century DesignThe Museum of 21st Century Design (M21D) responded to our challenge – to design a civic space (physical or virtual) that promotes a deeper sense of interconnectivity between one another and our world – with a concept for a new kind of museum for the 21st century. M21D is a nomadic, future-focused museum devoted to engaging communities in exploring design that positively impacts society and the environment. M21D was awarded seed funding to execute initial programming that reframes what we ask of design to create a flourishing future.
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M21D submitted a series of ‘Postcards of the Future’ to visually represent scenes of a flourishing future explored by the museum.
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The postcards explore themes of belonging, engaging and imagining together differently as we shape our future world.
Our creative collaborations invite professionals from across disciplines to develop a creative work that engages our relational felt sense and feeling states to shape a life-giving world. We fund the collaboration and support its implementation at relevant venues with an interpretive layer of the work.
Example: Nomad Garden & AntropoloopsWe teamed up with Nomad Garden and Antropoloops to propose a site-specific work, Kleos Melita for the inaugural Malta Biennale. The work is based on the linguistic origin of Malta’s name (Melita), meaning honey. It proposes a new Order of Malta composed of a brotherhood of insects, plants, humans, bacteria and fungi to cultivate honey and wax as a sacred body and ecosystem. The Kleos installation grounds itself deeply in place, revealing— through a range of sensorial remixes—that every location is a unique microcosm of a wider macrocosm rooted in divine interconnection. The work aims to position Malta not as a defensive bastion but as a beacon for a new way of orienting to each other and earth’s living systems.
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1. Fragment of a map of Malta by cartographer Piri Reis (1554); 2. Xemxija Hill Heritage Walk path; 3. Ancient Punic-Roman apiary Xemxija; 4. Photography of Foeniculum vulgare (sweet fennel) and Nerium oleander in Xemxija walk; 5. View of mobile Kleos app with botanical information; 6. Scientific illustration of a western honey bee; 7, 8, 9. Thymus vulgaris (garden thyme), Ceratonia siliqua (carob), and Foeniculum vulgare (sweet fennel) botanical drawing
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Row 1: Clay hive cylinders and light festival; Row 2 & 3: Ice cores documenting past climate changes, wax cylinders, and historical recording devices; Kleos musical experience in a historic garden 11. View of music metadata in Kleos app associated to an specimen