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We’re more than halfway through our fiscal year, and CERF+ has already provided $106,647 in emergency assistance to 42 artists. Although this is less than we had distributed last year at this time, when we received a record number of applications in response to Hurricane Maria, it is 27% higher than the same period in […]
A grant of $500 can go a long way to help safeguard your studio, protect your career, and prepare you for emergencies. From purchasing cases and locks to secure tools, to building storage systems to protect artwork from flooding, to improving studio ergonomics, artists have used CERF+’s Get Ready Grants to make big shifts in […]
Recovering from a major disaster can take a long time. That’s why we were thrilled to hear that St John’s US Virgin Islands-based ceramic artist, Casey Giakis, recently celebrated her first kiln firing since Hurricanes Irma and Maria seriously damaged her outdoor studio and kiln. CERF+ was there after the dust settled to provide emergency […]
In the aftermath of a disaster, an enormous amount of private and public funds are pumped into the affected areas. This flood of money, in addition to an increase in volunteers and first responders, can create a chaotic and confusing situation on the ground. Unfortunately, among those who come to help are individuals and companies […]
This year the CERF+ Board of Directors held our annual spring meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from March 20 – 24. The Board chose to meet there to provide us with more opportunities to deeply engage with and understand the culture, community, and needs of artists with whom we have been working closely since […]
Native arts and crafts are deeply connected to culture, community, and sustaining local economies and family livelihoods. The Albuquerque jewelry dealer Nael Ali will be sentenced in April for fraudulently selling imported jewelry as Native American made. He will be the first defendant sentenced in the most extensive federal investigation into Indian arts and crafts fraud. Preserving and protecting Native American art are serious issues in the art world demanding our collective attention.
On November 18, close to the one-year anniversary of Sevier County, Tennessee’s devastating wildfires, over 100 artists and arts professionals gathered at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN to attend a new CERF+ program, “Ready + Resilient.” The free program helps studio artists and their communities recovering from disasters build and protect […]
Quilter Pam Hill shares how easy it can be to fundraise for artists. In less than a week, over $1,000 had been deposited in the CERF+ coffers! CERF+ would be seriously extended in supporting makers and these added funds were in immediate need.
Irma was my first hurricane, but it certainly wasn’t Key West’s. I moved here five years ago to take the reins at a growing art center, and quickly became attuned to the way storms serve as rites of passage and touchstones for anyone who’s lived through at least one.
CERF+ Executive Director, Cornelia Carey, received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy at the Vermont Arts Council‘s 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards during a celebration at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, Vermont on October 24. Carey was joined by illustrator David Macaulay, writer Chris Bohjalian, arts educator Taryn Noelle, and folklorist […]
