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Harlan Boss Scholarships

The Harlan Boss Scholarship is awarded to emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Color (BIPOC) or otherwise historically underrepresented and who work and reside in Minnesota. With support from the Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts, these artists receive financial and in-kind support to build sustainable and successful careers.

Meet the awardees.

Selected artists receive underwritten participation in our American Craft Fest St. Paul event, financial stipend to offset costs and support their practice, American Craft Council membership that includes professional development workshops and mentorship, marketing and promotional support, and other great benefits.

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  • Alysha Hill

    Alysha Hill is a born and raised Minnesotan from the Twin Cities. Hill earned a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Ceramics from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Hill is currently the Community Engagement Coordinator at Northern Clay Center, teaches ceramics and has always been community driven in her career path. She produces her ceramic work as A Hill Studio from her home studio in Richfield. Hill crafts whimsical utilitarian ceramics, rendering forms using methods of wheel throwing wit...

  • Delaney Keshena

    Delaney Keshena is a moccasin maker and fine artist born in a border town in sleepy, north-central Wisconsin. With the body as site, Keshena uses hair, skin and glass in their practice of crafting objects that relate stories of family, nation and contemporary Indigenous experience. Delaney’s work has been shown in Italy, Belgium and throughout the United States. Delaney is currently in a two-year residency with Public Functionary and based in Minneapolis, MN.

  • Evelyn Wichitchu

    Evelyn Wichitchu is a glassblower based in the Twin Cities area. She teaches and makes her work out of Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts. She is the creative mind behind her brand Wichcraft Glass and her work is rooted in the tradition of Venetian-style glassblowing, a skill-based art form that embodies centuries of dedication, precision, and beauty. She approaches this method of glassblowing as a language, with each movement and technique forming part of a unique vocabulary that allows her t...

  • Kennedy Lor

    Kennedy Lor is a Minneapolis-based designer holding a B.S. in Apparel Design & Development from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, with minors in Studio Art and Sustainability. As founder of LOWKEN, he transforms secondhand garments into contemporary statement pieces through radical reconstruction techniques in his Minneapolis atelier. Kennedy blends architectural pattern-making with experimental design to create wearable art that challenges conventional luxury. Each LOWKEN piece, whether a deco...

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