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Making Meaning: A Campaign for American Craft

The American Craft Council has launched a three-year advancement campaign to strengthen the future of American craft. The American Craft Council is mobilizing makers, organizations, and supporters nationwide to build a world where objects matter, makers thrive, and craft connects. At a time when mass production dominates, we must invest in the human creativity, cultural knowledge, and shared meaning that only craft can provide.

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What Your Commitment Supports

Your campaign commitment provides the working capital needed to expand ACC’s national impact. Gifts support:

  • A robust digital hub connecting makers and audiences to events, opportunities, and resources
  • In-person and online convenings that bring the craft community together
  • Stronger partnerships across regions, generations, and cultures
  • Expanded support for early-career craftspeople, including more than $100,000 in grants annually

Together, these investments help build a more connected, visible, and sustainable craft ecosystem.

Why Pledge Now

ACC has launched Making Meaning with strong momentum, raising early leadership gifts and securing a challenge grant that will help unlock additional funding. Commitments made now ensure the resources and stability needed to carry this work forward through 2027—accelerating progress and amplifying impact at a pivotal moment for craft.

Your pledge helps turn vision into action.

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Thank you to our donors.

Thank you to the following donors, whose leadership and generosity are helping us build a more connected, visible, and sustainable craft ecosystem.

Transformative Donors

Greg Bullard
Lynn Pollard
Rebecca Ravenal
Robert L. Lynch and Dianne Brace Family Foundation
Gary J. Smith and Jamienne Studley
Woodie and Steve Wisebram

Campaign Donors

Rachel K. Garceau
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez
Harriett Green
Joseph P. Logan
Sara and Robert McDonnell
Darryl Patterson
Bruce W. Pepich and Lisa Englander
James Rustad* and Kay Thomas
Andrea Specht and Joseph Ford
Woodie and Steve Wisebram

*In Memoriam