Deadline: 21-Oct-22
The Center for Craft is pleased to announce the Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship.
Awards of $10,000 will be granted to five, mid-career artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice. At the end of the grant period, Fellows' research will be disseminated through a publication, conference presentation, exhibition, film, or other format proposed by the Fellow.
The Craft Research Fund program is supported in part by the Windgate Foundation.
Goals
- To support new research and knowledge through craft practice.
- To create new models for craft research.
- To make research in craft accessible within and outside of the Academy.
- To support the careers of craft artists that may be relatively unknown.
- To assist "mid-career" artists in undertaking a specific proposal/project that would otherwise not be possible.
Funding Information
- Award Amount: $10,000 Fellowships.
- Grant Period: 18 months.
Use of Fund
- Purpose of this grant, the Center for Craft requires that all grant recipients provide financial remuneration to working artists for their time, labor, and services rendered toward the awarded project scope and goals. For remuneration estimates, they recommend consulting the floor wages listed on the Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.).
- When working with community members, the Center for Craft requires that all grant recipients provide financial remuneration for their time, labor, and services rendered toward the awarded project scope and goals.
- For travel purposes, the Center for Craft recommends recipients follow the Federal Travel Regulation and Reimbursement Rates.
- 2023 Craft Research Artist Fellows are expected to propose and use a portion of the grant funds to cover the cost of dissemination. Additional funding will not be provided to cover exhibition costs, publication printing, or other forms of dissemination.
Eligibility Criteria
Proposals are welcome from mid-career artists, artisans, designers, makers, sculptures, and so on, who identify their practice within the field of craft. The Center, and by extension this grant, recognizes craft to be a particular approach to making with a strong connection to materials, skill, and process. They believe in empowering artists, makers, scholars, and curators to grow the field, embracing new definitions, technologies, and ideas while honoring craft's history and relationship to the handmade. Craft, in all its forms, demonstrates creativity, ingenuity, and practical intelligence. It contributes to the economic and social wellbeing of communities, connects us to their cultural histories, and is integral to building a sustainable future.
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Applicants must be:
- 21 years of age or older
- Eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S.
- Residing and working in the U.S. for the last two years and for the duration of the fellowship period.
- Mid-career: Artist must self-identify as mid-career
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For the purpose of this grant, the Center for Craft understands craft research to be:
- A method of working in an established craft practice used in relation to a proposed project that will contribute to new knowledge.
- A systematic investigation to establish facts, test theories, and reach new knowledge or new understanding.
- A combination of qualitative and quantitative research that underscores a specific craft practice.
- Thinking in, through, and with craft in a way that expands the field.
- The work (material development, process, subject, information, experiences) that goes into creating a new work of art.
Ineligible
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Applicants cannot be:
- An institution.
- A full-time student in a degree-granting program or its equivalent.
- Students at the time of applying, even if graduation is pending the same year.
- Disqualified persons, such as substantial contributors to the Center for Craft as well as current employees, consultants, or board members of the Center for Craft, immediate family members of such a person.
- A previously awarded Craft Research Fund – Artist Fellow.
For more information, visit Craft Research Fund Artist.
For more information, visit https://www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-fellowships/craft-research-fund-artist-fellowship