Short Description

We are very sorry you have experienced an emergency that has threatened your craft practice.

The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) emergency relief grant focuses on materials-based craft and folk/traditional artists who have experienced a recent, career or practice threatening emergency, such as an illness, injury, theft, fire or climate related disaster AND/OR incurred significant medical expenses related to treatment and recovery from COVID-19. 

Eligibility

To qualify for an Emergency Relief Grant, applicants need to be craft artists who are 18 years of age or older. They must have been living and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the past two years. Additionally, they should not have received an Emergency Relief Grant in the previous year or exceeded the maximum lifetime limit of 4 grants.

This grant program supports individual craft artists who make original three-dimensional visual art objects by hand, including folk and traditional art forms. 

Eligible Materials: We welcome handmade art made from clay, glass, textiles/fiber, wood, metal, concrete, plastic, gourds, shells, bones, leather, recycled materials and many other materials to create three-dimensional craft art. We look for objects in which the artist transformed the materials into something new.

Eligible Forms: Craft forms we support are handmade jewelry, vessels, dishes, sculptures, chairs, purses, hats, masks, garments, quilts, baskets, embroidery, musical instruments, beadwork, regalia or ceremonial clothing, printmaking such as etching or woodcut, papier-mâché, mask making, knitting/crochet, dolls, bookmaking, blacksmithing, and knife making.

How to Apply

Online Application

Program Benefits & Awards

CERF+ offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster.

Entry Fee

None

Location

Vermont, United States

Timeline

  • Application Deadline: ongoing

Website Link: https://cerfplus.org/grants/emergency-relief/

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