Steps to Salvaging Your Art Studio After a Hurricane
Steps to Salvaging Your Water Damaged Art Studio After a Hurricane If your home, studio or space has been flooded as a result of Hurricane Florence or Michael, review these tips to help you clean up, recover what you can, and rebuild. Disaster Clean Up Make a Plan...
CERF+ Joins Clinton Global Initiative Post-Disaster Recovery Action Network
Following the devastating 2017 hurricane season, local leaders from Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda approached former President Bill Clinton to help them build back better. In response, The Clinton Foundation launched the Clinton...
Artists Building a Future in Puerto Rico
Artists Building a Future in Puerto Rico by Cornelia Carey, Executive Director In April 2013, I spent three exciting days in Puerto Rico being introduced to its vibrant visual arts community… little did I know that five years later I would be returning on a CERF+...
Up from the Ashes: Reclaiming Memories + Artistic Practice
In October 2017, glass artist Clifford Rainey’s home and studio in Napa were destroyed by the Altas Peak Wildfire in Northern California. Principally a sculptor who employs cast glass and drawing as primary methodologies, Rainey’s work has been exhibited...
Perspective Through a Hurricane
By Jed Dodds, Executive Director The Studios of Key West 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...
CERF+ Responds to Triad of Hurricanes
CERF+ Responds to Triad of Hurricanes All of us at CERF+ are heartbroken by the significant losses many in our country have endured from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. More than ever, we are committed to providing artists with information and resources they need...
Staying Safe in a Flooded Studio
Staying Safe in a Flooded Studio When you’re cleaning out a flooded studio, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is essential to your health and safety. Depending on the type of physical, electrical, or chemical disaster you’re working with, PPE typically includes:...
A Year of Pluses: CERF+ Releases Impact Report
We’re excited to share CERF+’s recently released impact report for our fiscal year 2016, which covers the period of time from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. CERF+ is distinctive among non-profit artist service organizations not only because of our focus...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Folk + Traditional Artists
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Folk Artists by Barry Bergey, Former Director of Folk + Traditional Arts, National Endowment for the Arts This Spring, CERF+ created alternate guidelines to address the unique ways in which folk and traditional artists work. We asked...
Kazuki Takizawa
Shining Through: A Conversation of Recovery with Kazuki Takizawa Kazuki Takizawa is a Japanese Glass Artist working in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a BFA in Glass Art. Since then, he has worked in various production...
Westfield Insurance Foundation’s Legacy of Caring Fund Benefits CERF+
Westfield Insurance Foundation’s Legacy of Caring Fund Benefits CERF+ Broadview Heights, Ohio, 06/12/2017 — CERF+ received a grant from Westfield Insurance Foundation thanks to the help of ZINC. The grant is part of the Westfield Legacy of Caring program, which...
A Sign of Support: Johnathon DeSoto
A Sign of Support: Johnathon DeSoto “Being a full time craft artist is something that many of us dream about, but it does have its own risks built into it: Lack of financial stability and traditional safety nets are one of them. I used to be a Registered Nurse,...
Fire Up the Kiln!
Jan 31, 2017 | Makers + Matters Ceramicist and beneficiary Ben Medansky is rebuilding his business after a devastating fire destroyed his downtown Los Angeles studio last July. Through CERF+’s brokered assistance program, Ben received a kiln this month donated...
