The Craft Research Fund is the Center’s first and longest-running grant program dedicated to supporting new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States.
Donor Name: Center for Craft
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $5,000 to $15,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
Since 2005, the program has supported 244 projects in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia by distributing over $1,900,000.
The Craft Research Fund encourages, expands, and supports craft research in the United States.
Funding Information
- Award Amount: $5,000 to $15,000.
- Grant Period: 18 months.
Examples of craft research might include:
- Research providing new insight into work by historical or contemporary craft artists, communities, or practices in the United States
- Research that places American craft in a global context
- Research presenting a new understanding of the relationship between handmade production and digital technologies
- Research supports new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in craft
- Or other topics that offer fresh perspectives within craft.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposals are welcome from applicants including but not limited to organizations, curators, artist-researchers, independent and academic researchers, and scholars.
- This grant is intended to support research and is not for the creation of artwork
- This grant will not provide funding for already completed research or the dissemination of already completed research
- Applicants must be:
- Applicants must be able to receive taxable income in the U.S. for the duration of the grant and report this grant as income
- Applicants must be 18 years of age or older
- Applicants cannot be:
- Substantial contributors to the Center for Craft as well as current employees, consultants, or board members of the Center for Craft, or immediate family members of such a person.
For more information, visit Center for Craft.
