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The Studio Protector is now available! It is the one tool no studio artist should be without. It’s a calendar-sized wall chart with wheel charts and pull-out booklets that cover the essential points of preparing for and recovering from emergencies. Get your copy
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Strengthening & Sustaining the Careers of Craft Artists
Craft Emergency Relief Fund is committed to supporting the careers of craft artists throughout the United States. Through business and career-strengthening programs, emergency relief support, advocacy and research CERF helps professional craft artists strengthen and sustain their careers so that they can thrive and, thus, contribute to the quality of life in our communities. More...
- CERF Programs
How CERF Helps:
- Emergency Relief & Recovery
CERF's emergency relief and recovery programs provide assistance to help sustain a craft artist's career when an emergency occurs. - Emergency Readiness
CERF provides training, information and resources to help craft artists strengthen their careers so that they can avoid or at least lessen the impacts of emergencies.
- Who CERF Helps
- Kate Tonguis
Kate Tonguis, a ceramic artist who lost everything after Hurricane Katrina, describes how CERF helped her. More CERF Videos... - >
- What's New
- CERF Survey Finds that Most Craft Artists Work Without Insurance
Almost three-quarters of professional American craft artists work in their home, or on their home property — but if their studio or equipment were destroyed in a fire, hurricane or other disaster, the great majority of those artists would not be covered by insurance.
- CERF’s Latest Collectible Charm
Los Angeles jewelry maker Valerie Mitchell patterned CERFs 2009 Charm after a Western red cedar seed because she says the organization plants a seed of hope for rebuilding and growth. The 1.5 by .5 charm is made…more
- The Studio Protector has Arrived!
The Studio Protector is the one tool no studio artist should be without (if they want to cover their "A’s" that is their art, assets, and archives).The complete, enjoyable-to-use disaster kit designed by artists for artists makes the dull details of emergency preparedness a little less tedious for creative types of all stripes – artisans, graphic designers and fine artists.