GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Our grant programs build a future for craft by providing vital resources to catalyze craft communities and amplify craft’s impact in the United States. We believe craft matters.
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Twenty-one mid-career craft artists who teach will receive $10,000 grants and join an 8-month cohort experience that supports their artistic and career development with programs, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning.
Deadline:
Nov 30, 2022
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Sean Eren, "Entrapment," 2020.
Each year the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship awards $15,000 to 10 undergraduate seniors across the United States who demonstrate exemplary skill in craft - one of the largest awards offered nationally to art students.
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Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Awards of up to $15,000 granted to two interdisciplinary teams of researchers, encouraging mutually beneficial innovation between the fields of craft and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Deadline:
Mar 2, 2020
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Image of altar for the deity of Orisha, Oshun. Image by M Tsang.
Grants up to $15,000 for research, writing, support documentation, images or rights to use images or text, as part of craft research yet to be completed.
Deadline:
October 21, 2022
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Molly Robinson, 2020 Graduate Grant Recipient. “Basket and Palm Rose.” Courtesy of the recipient.
Grants of up to $5,000 support research related to a Master's thesis relating to United States studio craft by students enrolled in graduate programs in an accredited college or university.
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Diedrick Brackens, heaven is a muddy riverbed, 2018. 50 x 34 inches. Woven cotton and cubic zirconia earrings. Image courtesy of Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Grants up to $15,000 will be awarded to support exhibition research relating to the goals of the Craft Research Fund.
Deadline:
Oct 21, 2022
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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