SAC provides more grants to craft artists

The Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston has announced a second round of awards in its Craft Innovation Jumpstarter Grant program to two artists, Laura Petrovich-Cheney from Marblehead, Mass., and Sarah Madeleine T. Guerin from Wakefield Mass.

The mini-grants, made possible by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, support artists looking to pursue new directions and ideas, and are part of the Society’s larger efforts to meet the needs of modern craft artists.

The Society received more than 100 applications for the grants, according to Trustee Katina Leodas, who served as one of four jurors alongside former Trustee and fiber artist Lois Russell, mixed-media artist Jessica Calderwood, and furniture maker Michael Puryear.

Petrovich-Cheney is a wood and fiber artist whose process includes using salvaged wood collected after natural disasters to create wall sculptures inspired by traditional women’s textiles, crafts, and American patchwork scrap quilts.

Guerin uses traditional boot-making techniques to create artistic and functional footwear, and to bring awareness to the environmental and social impact of footwear manufacturing in New England and around the world.

For more, visit https://societyofcrafts.org.