The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) Emerging Artist Readiness Award
The CERF+ Emerging Artist Readiness Award is an annual award (over five years from 2025-2030) provided by the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+), a non-profit organization that provides craft artists emergency relief and preparedness grants as well as education, advocating for craft artists through every step of their creative journeys.
Meet the awardees.
The CERF+ Emerging Artist Readiness Award provides a $1,000 grant to one early career/emerging artist participating in ACC’s American Craft Made Baltimore marketplace to safeguard their craft-based practice from a future emergency. Awardees are then invited to nominate a peer in the craft field who would benefit from funds to safeguard their practice, and this peer is awarded $1,000 as well.
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Kathleen Grebe
I went from designing logos for NBA stars to handcrafting jewelry for the fashion-forward. After 15 years of directing design for brands like Nike and Adidas, I put my career on hold in search of creative freedom. My jewelry hobby led to an artist residency at SCAD, after which I built my own laser-cutting lab. I taught myself the art of laser cutting and now my craft combines machine mastery with conceptual creativity. The name of my brand, Bold Standard, is a play on ‘taking a bold stand’,...
