The Center for Craft is seeking applications for its 2024 Craft Archive Fellowship to support archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States.
Donor Name: Center for Craft
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 12/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The 2024 Craft Archive Fellowship will foster archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States, such as feminist, intersectional, queer, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities and approaches that may not be specifically listed here. The fellowship will support a range of scholars, including independent, artists, and emerging to established researchers. These Fellows may engage in both conventional and innovative approaches to archival research. Fellows will participate in a virtual program presented by Center for Craft in February 2025, to include a 5 to 7 minute verbal presentation of their research method and findings and participate in group discussion. In addition, the Fellows have the opportunity to publish their research in an article on Hyperallergic which will be featured in a special edition of Hyperallergic’s newsletter in Winter 2025, making it accessible to a national and international audience. The Center for Craft Archive Fellowship issupported in part by Ayumi Horie and Sara Clugage.
Grant Goals
- To encourage and support the research and writing of historically underrepresented and non-dominant American craft histories
- To expand understanding of where and how archival craft research can be conducted
- To raise awareness of the importance of craft research
Funding Information
Up to 6 fellowships of $5,000 will be awarded.
- Projects must be completed in 12 months, with a start date of February 1, 2024 and end an date of February 28, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Proposals are welcome from a range of emerging to established scholars, including artists researchers. Funding is intended to support independent research and is not intended to support research conducted on behalf of an institution, organization, or 501c3.
Archives are repositories for and collections of primary source materials where people can conduct research. However, the histories preserved and stored within institutional libraries and archives often reflect the dominant cultural narratives, limiting the types of histories that can be told. Therefore, this fellowship takes an expansive understanding of what an archive is, to delimit what an archive can be. For the purpose of this grant, the Center for Craft understands archival craft research to be, but not limited to:
- Digital and in-person archives: Recipients can direct their research towards a digital or site-specific archive, such as institutional archives that feature underrepresented craft communities. An in-person visit is not required.
- Objects as archives, the study of a new collection of materials, such as oral histories, community-created archives, site or place as an archive.
- Funding from this grant can be used to visit more than one archive, as funding and time permits. However, engagement with just one archive is all that is expected.
- Applicants must be:
- 21 years of age or older
- Eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S.
For more information, visit Center for Craft.
