Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort 2025

The Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort will award a cohort of 30 mid-career craft artists who teach.

Donor Name: Center for Craft

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 03/17/2025

Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000

Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year

Details:

Thirty mid-career craft artists who teach will receive $10,000 grants and join a 6-month cohort experience that supports their artistic and teaching career development with programs, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning creating an enriching impact on the communities they engage, developing a network of teaching craft artists.

A leading component of the Teaching Artist Cohort is to support a diverse cohort of mid-career artists with varying practices and career aspirations. Ideally, awards will be given to a dynamic group of craft artists whose practice includes working as teaching artists in the schools or community, non-tenured or non-academic educators, adjunct instructors, visiting artists, museum educators, and community and workshop instructors.

Grant Goals

To provide craft artists opportunities and resources that help sustain a generative practice
To support craft artists in continuing their teaching practice and create an enriching impact on the communities they engage
To develop and strengthen networks of craft artists through peer-to peer learning and connection.

Funding Information

Award Amount: $10,000.

Grant Period

6 months.

Eligibility Criteria

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 the duration of the Grant period
- Have a studio practice for a minimum of five years and work as a teaching artist for a minimum of three years.
Applicants cannot be:
- Tenured faculty at a college or university
- Tenure-track position at a college or university
- Collectives, groups, partnerships
- 2022 Career Advancement Grant recipients
- Previous Teaching Artist Cohort recipient
- 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, or immediate family members of such a person.