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May 13, 2025
Grant honors 10 graduating college seniors for excellence in craft
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"Do what you want to do right now -- don't wait for someone to hold your hand. The universe is a magical place. You will always be taken care of."
"Remember that when people say you’re weird, it’s always a compliment – even if they don’t mean it that way."
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We spoke with the collaborators of Soft Monitor, who received the 2020 Materials-Based Research Grant.
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Grant honors 10 graduating college seniors for excellence in craft
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Unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 are available through Phase 2 of the Craft Futures Fund
"Remember that when people say you’re weird, it’s always a compliment – even if they don’t mean it that way."
Salvador Jiménez-Flores, "The Resistance of the Hybrid Cacti" (Detail), 2017.
Six contemporary artists of color use humor to interrogate social issues in the latest Curatorial Fellows exhibit
Left to right: "Response Patterns," Work Sample: Millington, Fitch, Zhang. // "Knit Structure Exploration, Short Row in Cashmere and Monofilament” Photo credit: Melissa Conroy. // “C O M P U T E R 1.0” - 2019 (MAD Museum) Photo by Kelly Vigil.
We asked this year’s awardees to tell us how previous research informs their current studies and what they are excited about for the future.
Screenshot from Swinney Creative 3D Tour
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