Now in it’s eleventh year, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s (CCCD) Windgate Fellowship Award marks $1.65 million awarded to 110 emerging craft artists nationwide.
Nominated from a national network of over 120 university art programs, these makers represent a skilled and motivated next generation for craft.
Each year, the Fellowship identifies ten graduating college seniors with exemplary skill in craft. Awardees receive $15,000 – one of the largest awards offered nationally to art students.
“We are honored to provide another class of grantees with this distinguished award,” Executive Director Stephanie Moore states. “The Windgate Fellowship allows us a glimpse of the up and coming talent in the field emerging from the best craft programs in the country. These artists are sincere in their efforts to explore and thinking about the materials in their practice and what it means for the future. ”
Four panelists reviewed a national pool of 95 Windgate Fellowship applicants on the basis of artistic merit. They also discerned the potential of each applicant to make significant contributions to the field of craft.
The 2016 selection panel included: Cora Fisher, Curator of Contemporary Art for Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, Andrea Donnelly, 2007 Windgate Fellow and fiber artist, Christopher Taylor, President of The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and Giselle Huberman, President of the James Renwick Alliance.
To mark the 10th Anniversary of the Windgate Fellowship Award, CCCD announced that it would award a total of ten, $10,000 Windgate Project Grants to previous Fellows over the course of three years. The first three grants were awarded in 2015 to Andrea Donnelly (Richmond, VA), Aaron McIntosh (Baltimore, MD), and Mark Reigelman II (Brooklyn, NY). Three more grants will be awarded this year, and the final four grants will be awarded in 2017. This year, sixty Fellows from the first six years of the program were invited to submit applications for projects to be completed and presented at CCCD.
THE 2016 WINDGATE FELLOWS ARE:
Anna Clark, Herron School of Art and Design, Wood/Furniture
Kaitlin Dunn, State University of New York at New Paltz, Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Ean Escoto, San Diego State University, Ceramics/Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Christine Fashion, Pennsylvania State University, Ceramics/Sculpture
Kira Keck, Maryland Institute College of Art, Fiber/Textiles
Jenna Macy, Maryland Institute College of Art, Ceramics/Textiles/Fiber/Glass
Jennie Maydew, Colorado State University, Fiber/Textiles
Stacy Motte, California College of the Arts, Wood/Furniture/Photography
Katharine Payne, California College of the Arts, Ceramics
Brandon Kento Saisho, Rhode Island School of Design, Wood/Furniture
THE 2016 WINDGATE PROJECT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE:
Dustin Farnsworth, 2010 Windgate Fellow, Madison, WI, Woodworking/Functional Art
Rebecca Manson, 2011 Windgate Fellow, Bedford Hills, NY, Ceramics
Rachel Mauser, 2011 Windgate Fellow, Louisville, KY, Book Arts
For a full list of current and previous awardees, please visit www.craftcreativitydesign.org.