GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Field Building
Field Building
Selected by nomination each year for 10 emerging artists who show exemplary skill in craft
Grants and a six-month cohort experience for mid-career artists who also teach
Grants for previous Teaching Artist Cohort awardees to develop teaching tools with support from a mentor
An eight-week residency in Asheville, North Carolina, for makers to explore new materials and processes
Phased relief and recovery grants for artists in Western North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene
Grants for new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States
Awards for archival research on underrepresented and nondominant craft histories in the United States
A 10-month program to give emerging curators a platform to explore and test new ideas about craft
Windgate-Lamar Fellowship: Gaylin Nicholson, Mortal Architecture, 2024. Photo credit: E.G. Schempf; Teaching Artist Cohort: Dee Clements, Grotesque Flowers, Polyp, 2024. Photo courtesy of the artist; Craft-Based Education Grant: 2024 Teaching Artist Cohort grantee Kenya Miles teaches natural dye techniques to members of the African American Quilters of Baltimore, 2020. Photo courtesy of the artist; Virginia A. Groot Material Exploration Residency: Justin Archer, The Dawn (year unknown). Photo courtesy of the artist; WNC Craft Futures Fund: Graphic design: Richard Chartier; Craft Research Fund Grant: Photo credit: Mike Belleme; Craft Archive Fellowship: Photo credit: Molly Robinson. Design by Manuel Miranda Practice @manuelsmiranda; Curatorial Fellowship: Center for Craft Bresler Family Gallery. Photo credit: Steve Mann, Black Box Photography.
featured recipients
After studying weaving techniques at Penland and the Jacquard Center and narrative capabilities of weave structures at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, I will establish a studio to complete a body of woven poems for exhibition and organize a workshop for writers and weavers interested in crafting literary cloths.
See the workSupport for a dissertation research about government-funded basketry, pottery, and woodworking craft workshops in the 1960s-70s among the Florida Seminole, Mississippi Choctaw, and North Carolina Cherokee.
Support for thesis research about the neglected history of indigenous women potters in San Marcos Tlapazola, a small pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico and how different types and geographies of knowledge can dialogue in a modern craft context.
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