Early Career Artist Grant: Tools & Equipment
With generous support from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, ACC has established three grant opportunities, available exclusively to members of our Early Career Artist Program. The American Craft Council provides innovative programs that support craft-centered livelihoods, including initiatives designed to meet the needs of artists as they build their careers.
Meet the awardees.
Fifteen Early Career Artist Program participants will receive a $2,500 grant to purchase tools and equipment that will help grow their creative practice and business. Examples of tools and equipment include: a kiln, a jeweler’s saw, a workbench, or an anvil. Materials are not eligible for this grant.
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Maryamm Abdullah
Maryamm became a full-time potter 3 years ago and has made hundreds of ceramic pieces on an inexpensive pottery wheel from Amazon with no bat system. A bat system allows thrown pottery to be interchanged so that the work will not get distorted when moved. Most of Maryamm’s work is wheel-thrown, and sometimes she waits hours for work to dry before she can safely move it, limiting productivity. Maryamm used the Tools and Equipment grant to purchase a new potters wheel and associated expenses.
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Nathaniel Newcomb
Nathaniel Newcomb mills his own wood and works at a large scale; therefore, having tools capable of cutting both precisely and safely is essential. Nathaniel is receiving a Tools and Equipment grant to purchase a Makita electric hand planer and a Skilsaw Sawsquatch, a powerful circular saw equipped with a small chainsaw-style blade. These tools would bring a new level of precision and professionalism to Nathaniel’s work and allow him to produce more finished work and participate in additional ...
