The Maine Craft Apprenticeship Program (CAP) is offered through a partnership between the Maine Crafts Association, the Maine Arts Commission and the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.
Donor Name: Maine Arts Commission
State: Maine, New Hampshire
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program supports 100 hours of one to one training over seven-months between a mentor and apprentice. The learning experience is for apprentices who demonstrate a commitment to acquiring new skills, tools and management habits and furthering their craft practice; they accomplish this through a significant relationship with a mentor artist. CAP celebrates the mentor/apprentice relationship as a way to generate creative entrepreneurship, envisioning a sustainable and resilient craft sector for Maine & New Hampshire.
Program Objectives
- Providing makers with relevant and alternative educational experiences.
- Promoting and facilitating craft as a viable career path.
- Fostering deliberate mentoring.
- Facilitating professional development of emerging makers.
- Increasing pool of craft makers in the state.
- Providing makers with alternative means of professional funding.
- Develop and promote peer learning in the Maine craft community.
Funding Information
$4,500.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility requires participants to be at least eighteen years of age, current Maine or New Hampshire residents, and apprentices must demonstrate foundational skills in the medium they wish to pursue. The program supports craft artists working in craft media, which does not include photography, painting or drawing. Please contact us if you are unsure if your media qualifies.
For more information, visit Maine Arts Commission.
