Artist using a blowtorch on a metal object in a workshop.

Discipline: Glass Artist

Kazuki Takizawa

Assistance from CERF+ helped me very much in getting through this tough time.

A very good friend of mine received emergency funding from CERF+ several years ago when a neighbor’s booth set up at a craft show has collapsed and damaged many of his art works. In spring 2016, I slipped and fell off a ladder, and fractured my wrist bones. I had a cast on for about 4 months and I was not able to blow glass and make work for about 6 months. Although I worked on jobs where I did not have to do the blowing myself, assistance from CERF+ helped me very much in getting through this tough time.

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