Cultivating Nordic Handcraft 2026 Teaching Tools Grant

This grant provides a one-time award of up to $1,000 worth of tools and equipment to expand the teaching capacity for an emerging handcraft instructor. This grant aims to cultivate craft education in the tradition of Swedish slöjd (handcraft) by investing in the next generation of craft practitioners and instructors. ASI believes that investing in individual instructors is an important way to preserve Nordic handcraft traditions and create innovation in the handcraft community, because it allows instructors to gain experience and share knowledge while increasing their capacity to teach widely across many institutions. The strongest applicants will have several years of teaching experience, will address the viability of creating a long term and potentially varied teaching curriculum with such teaching tools, will enable the instructor to teach a full size class (usually 6-15 students), and will demonstrate teaching relationships with several institutions.