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Emerging Arts Readiness Program in Puerto Rico

Emerging Arts Readiness Program in Puerto Rico

Emerging Artists Readiness Program in Puerto Rico The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) is excited to announce that we recently concluded our first Emerging Artists Readiness Program in Puerto Rico, thanks to funding from the Windgate Foundation. CERF+ partnered...
Emergency Preparedness: A 4-Step Action Plan

Emergency Preparedness: A 4-Step Action Plan

  New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CEFF+), and National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER) join forces to help you protect yourself and your assets before an emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic, along...
Life at Touchstone: The Intern Experience

Life at Touchstone: The Intern Experience

Touchtone Center for Crafts began over 50 years ago as Pioneer Crafts Council and blossomed into a craft school where people come together to learn in a fully immersive  hands-on environment. Occupying over 150 acres in the Laurel Highlands, a scenic rural area near...
The Color Network

The Color Network

In 1991, Bobby Scroggins, Professor of ceramic art at the University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies, attended the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference. There, he recognized that artists of color were significantly...
Sustainability in Craft

Sustainability in Craft

Last year, the majority of the craft artists who sought CERF+’s emergency relief assistance did so after suffering impacts from climate or weather-related emergencies, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires. As the threat of climate change intensifies across the...
Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths

Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths

The Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths (SIBs) formed with the vision to build equity and foster diversity in the field of blacksmithing. Recently, CERF+ staff met with blacksmiths Joy Fire and Elizabeth Belz from the Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths. Joy is SIBs’s...
Beyond the Surface: The Art of Michael Billie

Beyond the Surface: The Art of Michael Billie

Michael Billie is an award-winning Navajo mixed media artist who lives in Farmington, New Mexico. He studied art at the University of New Mexico and later took classes in encaustics, but it was only later in life that he became a full time artist. He dove into his art...
May Her Tools Live On: Tavia Brown on Legacy Planning

May Her Tools Live On: Tavia Brown on Legacy Planning

It is never too early to start thinking about legacy planning, but you may be wondering what legacy planning even is. Legacy planning is deciding how you want your assets (everything you own, including your wealth, artwork, tools, etc.) to be distributed after you...
Save Your Family Treasures

Save Your Family Treasures

Disasters can strike anyone anywhere. As climate and weather related disasters are forecast to become more frequent and severe, it is important to have a plan if the unthinkable happens. Unfortunately, property losses from fire/smoke damage or water/flood damage often...
Hurricane Fiona Devastates Puerto Rico

Hurricane Fiona Devastates Puerto Rico

CERF+’s friends and colleagues on the ground in Puerto Rico are reporting that Hurricane Fiona has caused significant damage, destroying infrastructure and homes and displacing many residents. While the full scope of the damage will be uncertain for some time, we do...
Amber Mustafic’s Expressive Art of Embroidery

Amber Mustafic’s Expressive Art of Embroidery

The painterly, expressive embroidery that emerging artist and recent Get Ready grantee Amber Mustafic creates is as visually stunning as it is introspective. Amber is a first-generation Muslim Albanian-Montenegrin who uses embroidery to create imagery that reflects...
Insurance Makes Sense

Insurance Makes Sense

If you are an artist who does not yet have business insurance, you are not alone. Of the 219 artists in the United States who have applied for CERF+’s Emergency Relief grants since 2018, only 67 (or 23.4%) reported that they had business insurance. But, this doesn’t...