Get Ready Grant Application

Deadline for applications: April 21, 2021

Review the "Get Ready" Grant Guidelines.

While you may save your progress in filling out this application form at any point and come back to it later, it's best to have your "Get Ready" project proposal completed and supporting documentation files ready before you begin. Uploaded files are limited to 10MB limit per file and 20MB limit total.

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Your Contact Information

First Name

Last Name

Street Address

City

State

Select two-letter state or territory abbreviation.

Zip

Phone

Email

Web Site

If you have a web site that displays your artwork, please enter the web address here.

What is your primary art form?

"Get Ready" Grants are restricted to artists working in craft disciplines

To be eligible for a “Get Ready” Grant, applicants must be a practicing artist with an ongoing history of producing a body of work in a craft discipline or disciplines (such as a potter, metalsmith, glass artist, woodworker, fiber artist, basket maker, or furniture maker). Others are not eligible.

Craft/Media

To be eligible for a “Get Ready” Grant, applicants must be a practicing artist with an ongoing history of producing a body of work in a craft discipline or disciplines (such as a potter, metalsmith, glass artist, woodworker, fiber artist, basket maker, or furniture maker). Others are not eligible.

Have you been working and residing in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the last two years?

YesNoCERF only provides assistance to artists who have been residing and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the last two years.

Get Ready Grant Project Proposal

Grant Request Amount

Enter amount requested (Whole numbers only...No "$" sign, decimal point, space characters, etc.). "500" maximum for Get Ready grants.

Project proposals may be provided in writing (400 word maximum) or via video (3 minute maximum).

NOTE: As the purpose of “Get Ready” Grant projects is to encourage artists to safeguard their studios, protect their careers, implement other safety measures, and build COVID career resilience, proposed projects that have another focus such as producing artwork or enhancing the artistic capabilities of the applicant are not eligible. If you have questions, read more about "Get Ready" Grant eligibility here.

Project Title (A one sentence description of your proposed project.)

Please provide a very short description of your project. (e.g. "An air filtration system for my studio.")

If providing the proposal in writing, please enter it here.

If providing the proposal in video form, enter the video's web address here:

Provide a list of the project's anticipated expenses, specifying which expenses the grant will fund and the sources of funds to cover any other project expenses.

Describe how you will actively share with others what you learn by completing your grant project through social media, blog posts, photographs or educating others. Click here for some examples.

Supporting Documents

In addition to filling out the application, you must provide supporting documentation.

Please upload: your resume or a narrative detailing your accomplishments as an artist working in a craft discipline; 5 high resolution images of artwork you have created in the past three years; and a photograph of yourself in your studio, at your booth at a show, teaching, or otherwise engaged in your artistic practice. You can review the required supporting documentation list on the the Get Ready Grant web page for details.

A maximum of 8 files can be uploaded. There is a page for each file being uploaded. No uploaded file can be more than 10MB and all files being uploaded cannot total more than 20MB. Files will be uploaded upon submitting the application.

Click "Next Page" to select the first file to upload with the application submission.