The recipients of the Heart for Craft’s 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship are Teju Adisa-Farrar, Robert Choe-Henderson, Amalia Uribe Guardiola, Crystal Vance Guerra, Trelani Michelle, and Bilphena Decontee Yahwon. For his or her six tasks, they may every obtain a $5,000 honorarium to discover and analyze archives of their selecting, partaking in each standard and modern approaches to archival analysis.
Specializing in underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories of america, the fellows will publish their scholarship within the fall of 2026 in articles on Hyperallergic. They will even take part in a digital program with the Heart for Craft.
We’re proud to introduce the latest cohort of Craft Archive Fellows and their tasks:
Teju Adisa-Farrar (Oakland, CA)Histories of Pure Dyeing and Botanical Pigment Making from a Black American
In tracing botanical pigment traditions from Africa to up to date reclamation, this venture paperwork pure dyeing practices by Black folks in america. Teju Adisa-Farrar will spotlight how Black artists and crafters preserved and tailored ancestral strategies from the 18th to the twentieth centuries as a part of their cultural heritage.
Robert Choe-Henderson (Warne, NC)Decolonizing the Tongue: Hanji in Kozo Patches
By centering on hanji and difficult Japanese-dominated narratives round papermaking, this analysis examines the decolonization of Korean papermaking. Robert Choe-Henderson, recipient of the Sara Clugage Award for the Craft Archive Fellowship, will advocate for linguistic and botanical precision to get well underrepresented craft histories and confront colonial legacies within the discourse of American papermaking.
Amalia Uribe Guardiola (New York, NY)Costureros as Residing Archives: Craft and Care in Latina Immigrant Communities
Amalia Uribe Guardiola, recipient of the Ayumi Horie Award for the Craft Archive Fellowship, will discover New York Metropolis costureros — textile circles led by immigrant Latina ladies — as archives the place oral and materials traditions converge. The venture traces how textile information strikes by way of the Americas as expressions of house, care, and protest emerge and rework by way of migration.
Crystal Vance Guerra (Chicago, IL)Altar Making: A Crucial Craft in Migrant Communities
Crystal Vance Guerra will examine Mexican altar making as a diasporic craft custom and residing archive, documenting how migrants make the most of this sacred follow to say their presence, protect reminiscence, and resist erasure by way of oral histories, neighborhood archives, and visible storytelling.
Trelani Michelle (Savannah, GA)Solid in Reminiscence: Tracing Black Ironwork Lineage
This analysis traces West African symbols, notably sankofa, in historic Black ironwork all through the Southern United States. By oral histories, archival analysis, and area visits, Trelani Michelle will uncover how Black artisans encoded cultural reminiscence into metallic, preserving ancestral information by way of craft.
Bilphena Decontee Yahwon (Baltimore, MD)Fanning Rice: Tracing Windward Coast Basketry within the Lowcountry
Diving into the shared origins of Liberian basket weaving and Gullah sweetgrass basketry by way of the Windward Coast slave commerce, Bilphena Decontee Yahwon, recipient of the Gallaher Household Award for the Craft Archive Fellowship, will discover how fannuh baskets — used for rice winnowing in South Carolina’s Lowcountry — served as each agricultural instruments and vessels of cultural reminiscence.
The Heart for Craft in Asheville, North Carolina, is a nationwide nonprofit devoted to advancing the sphere of craft by fostering new concepts, funding craft scholarships, and backing the subsequent era of makers, curators, and critics.
The Craft Archive Fellowship is supported, partly, by Ayumi Horie, Sara Clugage, and the Gallaher Household in partnership with Hyperallergic.
