The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design Announces 2017 CCCD Windgate Fellows and Project Grant recipients

Each year, the Windgate Fellowship identifies ten undergraduate seniors with exemplary skill in craft. Awardees receive $15,000 - one of the largest awards offered nationally to art students. 

Now in it’s twelfth year, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s (CCCD) Windgate Fellowship marks $1.8 million awarded to 120 emerging craft artists nationwide. Nominated from a national network of 104 university art programs, these makers represent a skilled and motivated next generation for craft. 

The final four CCCD Windgate Project Grants were awarded this year to:
Josh Copus, 2006 Windgate Fellow, Ceramics, Marshall, NC
Brian Fleetwood, 2012 Windgate Fellow, Jewelry, La Mesilla, NM
Ani Geragosian, 2009 Windgate Fellow, Fiber, Salem, MA
Adam Ledford, 2011 Windgate Fellow, Ceramics, Philadelphia, PA

The 2017 CCCD Windgate Fellows are:
Audrey An, Alfred University, Ceramics
Rachel Chalik, The University of the Arts, Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Esther Cho, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wood/Furniture
Emelie Cleveland, Parsons, The New School of Design, Fiber/Textiles
Christina Dietz, Pennsylvania State University, Sculpture/Psychology
Christina Glover, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fiber/Textiles
Breana Hendricks, State University of New York at New Paltz, Ceramics
Amy Hoagland, University of Kentucky, Glass/Sculpture/Paper/Extended Media
Steven Kaplan-Pistiner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Rosa Novak, California College of the Arts, Ceramics/Fiber

CCCD 2015/16 Craft Research Fund Grant Recipients Announced

The Craft Research Fund advances, expands and supports scholarship in United States. Each year, CCCD solicits applications from researchers, institutions, and students from around the country to be selected by a panels of experts in the field of craft scholarship.

On January 29, the 2015/16 recipients were reviewed by panelists Jenni Sorkin, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Sarah Warren, Associate Professor of Art History, Purchase College, State University of New York, and Nonie Gadsden, Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  The panel selected 11 recipients and awarded a total of $95,000 in the following categories:

Exhibition Research Grants 

• Stephanie Beck Cohen, Indiana University: $8,000 
• Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: $15,000 
• The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY: $15,000 
• Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA: $9,500

Project Grants

• Art Jewelry Forum: $6,000 
• Noga Bernstein, Stony Brook University: $6,000 
• Hadley Jensen, Bard Graduate Center: $5,500 
• Kevin Murphy, Vanderbilt University: $6,500 
•  Kayleigh Perkov, University of California Irvine: $10,500

Graduate Research Grants

• Alessa Alexander, University of California, Santa Barbara: $10,000 
• Jacqueline Sullivan, Parsons School of Design/Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: $3,000

Visit the CCCD website for full list of project descriptions and previous grant recipients.