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e-news | Aug. 2008

News from the CERF+ | August 2008
news@craftemergency.org
(802) 229-2306

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Program News

CERF+ “Disaster Forums” Are Expanded Online
CERF+’s Disaster Forums are now a permanent part of our website. These forums are for everyone in the craft and art community – a place to share experiences and ideas about disaster preparedness and recovery, and to offer assistance and pass along news during and after emergencies.

Visit our forums and you’ll find information about preparedness and recovery, as well as specifics related to current and past disasters. Visitors can offer assistance to craft artists affected by a particular event – and if you have been affected, you can let the wider community, both artists and those who support artists, know what you need.

Fundraising/Friendraising News

A Season for CERF+
Forty-three craft related businesses have already signed on to participate in CERF+’s 12th annual nationwide fundraising event, A Season for CERF+. That’s right, we’ve changed the name of this event from A Month for CERF+. CERF+ wants to provide participants who choose to host an event for us the option to have it take place anytime between September and December 2008.

CERF+ counts on its A Season for CERF+ community of gallery owners and others to help educate customers, artists, and their local community about CERF+’s mission and work. In 2007, A Month for CERF+ raised $42,815. Sign-ups for this year’s event are still welcome. Register online, contact Elissa Campbell via Email or call (802) 229-2306.

Click here for a full listing of A Season for CERF+ 2008 participants. You can also view our A Season for CERF+ Google Map to get customized directions from your home to a gallery near you, making your visit easier than ever.

CERF+ to Honor Artists Gone but Unforgotten
This November 2, CERF+ and the Southwest School of Art & Craft will team up to present A Day of the Dead, a ceremony that will celebrate CERF+ beneficiaries who are no longer living. Through this gathering of community near and far, we will honor those craft artists who brought so much creativity and beauty into our lives.

If you have a memory, photo, music, favorite color, tool or artifact of someone whom CERF+ has helped, please send them by October 27th to:
Teri Aguilar
Southwest School of Art & Craft, Navarro Campus
1201 Navarro
San Antonio, TX 78205

For more information about the event, contact Cornelia Carey via Email or call (802) 229-2306.

A Tip of the Hat: CERF+’s 11th Collection of Miniatures
Raffle tickets will soon be on sale for one of CERF+’s popular annual fundraising events – our collection of miniature objects. The collection entitled A Tip of the Hat, consists of works no larger than 4″x4″x4″ that are created and donated by some of today’s top craft artists. As a new twist, metal artists Julie and Ken Girardini have built a custom hat rack to be included in this annual raffle.

Contributing artists include: Nancy Moore Bess, Kathleen Dustin, Jean Hicks, Gerri Johnson-McMillin, John Jordan, Jenny Pohlman and Sabrina Knowles, Ellen Kochansky, Marilyn Moore, Connie Norman, Carla Reiter, Betty Scarpino, Sylvia Seventy, Christina Shmigel, and Kiff Slemmons.

Tickets are $50 each or books of 5 tickets for $200. Tickets make great gifts for friends, loved ones, or anyone who supports CERF+. CERF+ will send out special notifications to people who have had tickets purchased in their honor. For a sneak preview of the collection, please visit our website.

Be a Fan of CERF+
CERF+ has a new way for you to show your support for CERF+ – Facebook. Become a fan of CERF+ on Facebook and let your friends and family know that you really care about strengthening and sustaining the careers of craft artists across the United States. To become a fan, just visit CERF+’s official page on Facebook and click on the “Become a Fan” button in the upper right-hand corner.

Emergency Preparedness Tip of the Month

Images are an artist’s lifeblood. Without them there is nothing to submit with show applications, for exhibitions, or for press coverage.

Most artists store their slides and digital images in the studio, and they are usually lost if they have a fire or are struck by a natural disaster.

Store duplicates of your film images and backup media containing copies of digital images (CD, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive) at a secure offsite location. This should be someplace at least 50-100 miles away, that is unlikely to be affected by the same disaster (Katrina washed away whole banks, so a safety deposit box in your town may not be good enough). For example, put copies of all of your images in a fire and water-resistant file box and leave it at a family member’s house in another town. You could also exchange boxes with another artist and both of you would be protected.

While you’re at it, copy documents that you cannot afford to lose like insurance papers, legal documents, and your glaze formulas or other process notes and stick those in there, too!

Next month: Backing up your digital images and files using secure online storage sites.

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