Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation

We’re excited to announce the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation’s 2024 Awards in Craft, honoring individual craftspeople and artists for their unique and visionary approach to material-based practice, stewardship of cultural traditions, and craft's potential to connect people, places and ideas.   Please join us in congratulating Cristina Córdova, Ibrahim Said, Nisha Bansil, Raul De Lara, and Thea Alvin! The program’s newest cohort features recipients whose work spans clay, glass, stone, and wood, among other media. Their practices draw upon a range of artistic traditions as well as ecological, personal and social influences, representing the multifaceted realities of contemporary craft. Awards committee panelists recognized their visionary approach to material-based practice, their potential to make significant contributions to their craft in the future and the potential for this award to provide momentum at a critical career and project junctures. Each craftsperson will receive $100,000 in unrestricted funds, supporting them as they grow in their careers and propel their work forward.  Learn more about the winners here: https://lnkd.in/gY9up9Qt Thanks to United States Artists, Sonnenzimmer, Cultural Counsel and Spitfire for their partnership and support.

Love this piece in The Chronicle of Philanthropy about the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation's Awards in Craft: Said says the award feels like recognition for his body of work and the sacrifices he’s made for his craft —and that it’s a chance for him to reinvest in his imagination. “Life is not easy, especially when you’re working with art,” he says. “It just makes you continue. You feel like you’re in the right place.”

Please join us in congratulating Thea Alvin, 2024 recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft! Thea is a stone mason and sculptor specializing in arch construction, large-scale sculptural installation, stone building, and most recently, stained glass. She has a unique style and perspective that manifests via her stonework, design, installation, team leadership and teaching in the trades. To learn more about Thea’s work, visit https://lnkd.in/gnSCXVt8 We believe in the work and the power of individuals, and we are excited to celebrate these one-time, unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five craftspeople and artists. Learn more about the foundation at www.maxwell-hanrahan.org. Photo Credit: Artist #Craft #Stone #StoneMason #RhodeIsland

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Please join us in congratulating Raul De Lara, 2024 recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft! Raul is a sculptor who practices storytelling through woodworking, exploring Mexican/American iconography, queer identity and the immigrant experience. Raul’s research preserves, honors and propels forward traditional uses of wood while combining them with new developments in the global industry of woodworking. To learn more about Raul’s work, visit https://lnkd.in/gJEsjdvu We believe in the work and the power of individuals, and we are excited to celebrate these one-time, unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five craftspeople and artists. Learn more about the foundation at www.maxwell-hanrahan.org. Photo Credit: Agaton Strom #Craft #Wood #Sculpture #NewYork #Mexico

Please join us in congratulating Nisha Bansil, 2024 recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft! Nisha is a glass sculptor, artist and educator exploring how remnants of phenomenological events found in nature relate to patterns that become ubiquitous, sacred and divine. Nisha builds devices to render invisible, natural forces, like sound waves and motion, into visual forms in glass. To learn more about Nisha’s work, visit https://lnkd.in/gNgmJFZh We believe in the work and the power of individuals, and we are excited to celebrate these one-time, unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five craftspeople and artists. Learn more about the foundation at www.maxwell-hanrahan.org. Photo Credit: Adam Sternin #Craft #Glass #Sculpture #NewYork

Please join us in congratulating Ibrahim Said, 2024 recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft! Ibrahim is a ceramicist whose practice recognizes the rich cultural heritage, techniques and the history of the pottery industry from his hometown of Fustat, Egypt. Combining wheel throwing, hand-building and surface adornment —including carving, glazing and finials — Ibrahim pushes the physical limits of clay while engaging, respecting and building upon a lineage of Egyptian pottery. To learn more about Ibrahim’s work, visit https://lnkd.in/gz6abKPu We believe in the work and the power of individuals, and we are excited to celebrate these one-time, unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five craftspeople and artists. Learn more about the foundation at www.maxwell-hanrahan.org. Photo Credit: Dhanraj Emanuel #Craft #Ceramics #Pottery #NorthCarolina #Egypt

Please join us in congratulating Cristina Córdova, 2024 recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft! Cristina is a ceramic sculptor whose work is influenced by the rich creative heritage of the Caribbean. Using clay to give voice to regional stories and aesthetic inquiries, Cristina strives to honor and innovate within this ceramic lineage, expanding collective creative language. To learn more about Cristina’s work, visit https://lnkd.in/gsqj7xa7 We believe in the work and the power of individuals, and we are excited to celebrate these one-time, unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five craftspeople and artists. Learn more about the foundation at www.maxwell-hanrahan.org. Photo Credit: Lucy Plato #Craft #Ceramics #FigurativeSculpture #NorthCarolina #PuertoRico

Do you want to support teachers and students in rural communities? Our friends at the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation are DOUBLING donations to projects at rural schools for a limited time. Let’s help small-town teachers get the supplies they need to make big classroom dreams come true! https://lnkd.in/eBqQgrXu

First round of Heritage Crafts Awards 2024 now open Deadline: 24 May 2024, 5pm The first round of the Heritage Crafts Awards in 2024 is now open for nominations, with 12 prizes over seven award categories up for grabs. The Awards, which have been running since 2012, celebrate and highlight the traditional living crafts that contribute to British heritage. The President’s Award for Endangered Crafts, now in its fifth year, was established by Heritage Crafts President The Former Prince of Wales. Each year the President’s Award presents £3,000 to a heritage craftsperson who will use the funding to ensure that craft skills are passed on to the future. The second annual Environmental Sustainability Award, in partnership with QEST - Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, will this year award two £1,000 prizes, open to craftspeople working with traditional craft skills or materials who have demonstrated an innovative approach to environmental sustainability OR transformed the environmental impact of their craft business through a series of incremental changes and improvements. The tenth annual Maker of the Year Award will this year award four £1,000 prizes, to heritage craftspeople in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, who have made an outstanding contribution to their specific crafts within the previous 12 months, with support from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation. An overall UK Maker of the Year will be selected from the four national winners, with their prize topped up to £2,000, with support from the Marsh Charitable Trust. The Marsh Charitable Trust will support four other awards, including Trainer of the Year, Trainee of the Year, the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the new Community Activist of the Year Award. For more information and to apply, visit https://lnkd.in/ei8CYcMG. A second round of awards will open for nominations on 17 June, including Woodworker of the Year, Precious Metalworker of the Year, Fashion and Textile Maker of the Year, Leatherworker of the Year and others, as well as range of awards for young makers aged 25 and under. Photos: • 2020 President’s Award Winner Ernest Wright Scissors • President’s Award trophy by Eddy Bennett