The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2014 Craft Research Fund grants. This year, ten organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students will receive a total of $95,000 to support and expand scholarly craft research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the United States, including the Museum of Arts and Design and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Museum of Science, among others.
This marks the tenth year CCCD has awarded Craft Research Fund grants, the
only major funding source for craft research in the United States. Assistant
Director Marilyn Zapf states, “The Craft
Research Fund has legitimized the
study, and by extension the practice, of craft through fostering institutional
backing of craft-based studies, exhibitions, and conferences.”
The goals of this peer-reviewed grant are to support
innovative research on critical issues in craft theory and history; to explore
the interrelationships among craft, art, design and contemporary culture; to
foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field; and
to advance investigation of neglected questions on craft history and criticism
in the United States. The Craft Research Fund grants are funded by a private
charitable foundation.
This
year’s panel included: John Stuart
Gordon, Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts,
Yale University Art Gallery; Bibiana
Obler, Associate Professor of Art History, George Washington University;
and Catherine Whalen, Assistant
Professor of American Material Culture Studies, Bard Graduate Center.
Project Grants
$10,000 – Nicole Burisch, Independent
Curator, Artist, Critic and Cultural Worker
& Anthea Black, Independent Artist,
Writer and Cultural Worker
Support for research, interviews, and artist projects on
politically engaged craft, making links to material histories of political
action, and situating craft in relation to the politics and economics of the 21st
century.
$10,000 – Asheley Pigford, Assistant
Professor, University of Delaware & Tricia Treacy, Assistant Professor,
Appalachian State University
Support for the examination, documentation and workshopping of
contemporary, post-digital creative practice with a specific focus on
understanding the relationship between handmade production and digital
technologies.
$15,000 – Regina Root, Associate
Professor, The College of William and Mary
Funding for research and analysis of the so-called Tillett Tapestry,
crafted with an estimated fifty-five million stitches and 106-feet in length,
representing the conquest of Mexico from both indigenous and Spanish point of
view.
Exhibition Research Grants
$6,500 – Del Harrow, Associate
Professor of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Joshua Stein, Associate Professor of Architecture, Woodbury
University
Support for the exhibition Data
Clay: Digital Strategies for Parsing the Earth at the San Francisco Museum
of Craft and Design and related symposium at California College of Art that
will critically address the nascent movement of architects, artists, and
designers exploring the medium of ceramics coupled with digital technologies.
$10,000 – James Herring, Exhibitions
Manager/Designer, Patricia & Philip Frost
Museum of Science
Support for development of an interactive exhibition, Maker
Space and online components to focus on the intersection of craft and science,
specifically craft as a process of making and its intersections with
technology.
$10,000 – Museum of Arts
and Design
Pathmakers: Women in Modern
Craft, Midcentury and Today will illuminate the
contributions of women to postwar visual culture and their use of craft
materials to explore concepts of modernism.
$12,000 – Josephine Stealey, Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
Rooted,
Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America, an
exhibition exploring the history of basketry in America, from its origins in
Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its presence and influence
within contemporary fine craft.
$5,000 – Keaton Wynn, Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts at Georgia Southwestern
State University
Ralph Harvey
Retrospective: A History of Glass Education in the Rural South, an exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art bringing public attention to
the contributions of the active glass program at Southwestern State University
in rural Georgia, built by Ralph Harvey.
Graduate Research Grants
$6,500 – Braden
Malnic, George Mason University
Support for master’s research situating abstract/experimental filmmaker James Whitney’s (1921-1982) Raku pottery in terms of craft history and criticism.
Support for master’s research situating abstract/experimental filmmaker James Whitney’s (1921-1982) Raku pottery in terms of craft history and criticism.
$10,000 – Kelley Totten, Indiana
University, Bloomington
Support for PHD dissertation research investigating contemporary craft environments at adult craft education sites, focusing on U.S. - based craft folk schools.
Support for PHD dissertation research investigating contemporary craft environments at adult craft education sites, focusing on U.S. - based craft folk schools.
Previous year recipients can be found at:
The Center for Craft,
Creativity & Design is a national nonprofit organization that advances the
understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, critical
dialogue, and professional development in the United States.
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