Craft Archive Fellowship
Forecasted
Craft Archive Fellowship supports independent artists, artist-researchers, and scholars in archival research and writing to bring underrepresented U.S. craft histories to wider public attention.
Funder: Center for Craft
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Four fellowships of $5,000 each; stated grant duration of twelve months
Summary: Supports independent archival research and writing on underrepresented and nondominant craft histories in the United States.
Key Information: Fellows must publish a 1,200-word article through Hyperallergic and participate in a virtual public program.
Description
The Center for Craft’s Craft Archive Fellowship supports independent artists, artist-researchers, and emerging and established scholars investigating underrepresented and nondominant American craft histories. Priorities include feminist, queer, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and intersectional communities and approaches, alongside histories not specifically listed. The program encourages conventional and innovative research that expands understanding of where and how craft research can happen.
The fellowship takes an expansive view of archives: digital and in-person collections, objects, oral histories, community-created archives, and sites or places. Through a partnership with Hyperallergic, fellows’ research appears in a freely accessible, searchable online Special Edition and is shared through a virtual public program. The collaboration aims to reduce physical and economic barriers to archival research, tell more accurate craft histories, and increase appreciation of craft scholarship.
