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The one gift this holiday season no artist should be without
Help keep the artist in your family safe and sound with the Studio Protector
Survival kit developed by Craft Emergency Relief Fund, a national nonprofit that provides emergency services for artists
Contact: Anne Galloway, 802-229-2306
This holiday season there’s no reason to scour art supply stores for the perfect present for the discriminating artist in your life.
For $16, you can give the gift that is designed to protect his or her life’s work.
The Studio Protector: The Artist's Guide to Emergencies is a fun-to-use, indispensable wall guide created for artists who want to cover their “A’s” (their art, assets and archives, that is) in the event of an emergency.
Nationally known “paper engineer” Carol Barton and a team of artists designed the pop-up style disaster readiness kit for creative types of all stripes – craft and studio artists, photographers and media artists.
It features two spinning wheel charts that explain how artists can plan ahead for emergencies and reduce the impact of a fire, flood, hurricane or tornado. In addition, five “pocket protectors” or pullout guides provide detailed information about what to do in the minutes before a disaster strikes, how to clean up after a calamitous event and how to salvage fire- and water-damaged items.
The calendar size survival kit was developed by Craft Emergency Relief Fund, a national nonprofit organization that provides specialized emergency services for craft and studio artists.
CERF staff worked with experts in art conservation, arts business management, and emergency relief services to develop easy-to-follow instructions and guidelines about how to prevent losses due to fires, floods, tornadoes and other disasters.
“When my whole town was evacuated because of fires I wasn't thinking clearly. I would have loved the instant comfort about what to do, what to take, how to protect my studio and thus how to be calmer. The Studio Protector would have helped me prepare ahead of time and act decisively,” says Lana Wilson, a potter from Del Mar, Calif.
The Studio Protector is sponsored by JP Morgan Chase & Co., the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Americans for the Arts, Craft in America, American Craft Council, ARTISIN LLC, New York International Gift Fair and Robert A. Katz Memorial Foundation.
The Studio Protector is available for $16, plus $4 shipping and handling from
www.studioprotector.org. Proceeds from the sale of the
Studio Protector support the production and distribution of artists’ emergency resources.
CERF launches the Studio Protector
Twelve thousand copies of the long-anticipated emergency readiness tool, the Studio Protector: The Artist's Guide to Emergencies, arrived at the CERF offices this month.
The fun-to-use, indispensable wall guide and companion web site, www.studioprotector.org, is for artists who want to cover their "A's" (their art, assets and archives, that is) in the event of an emergency.
Nationally known paper engineer Carol Barton and a team of artists designed the pop-up style disaster readiness kit for creative types of all stripes craft and studio artists, photographers and media artists.
It features two spinning wheel charts that explain how artists can plan ahead for emergencies and reduce the impact of a fire, flood, hurricane or tornado. In addition, five pocket protectors or pullout guides provide detailed information about what to do in the minutes before a disaster strikes, how to clean up after a calamitous event and how to salvagefire- and water-damaged items.
CERF staff worked with experts in art conservation, arts business management, and emergency relief services to develop easy-to-follow instructions and guidelines about how to prevent losses due to fires, floods, tornadoes and other disasters.
"When my whole town was evacuated because of fires I wasn't thinking clearly. I would have loved the instant comfort about what to do, what to take, how to protect my studio and thus how to be calmer. The Studio Protector would have helped me prepare ahead of time and act decisively," says Lana Wilson, a potter from Del Mar,Calif.
The Studio Protector is sponsored by JP Morgan Chase & Co., the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Americans for the Arts, Craft in America, American Craft Council, ARTISIN LLC, New York International Gift Fair and Robert A. Katz Memorial Foundation.
The Studio Protector is available for $16, plus $4 shipping and handling from www.studioprotector.org. Proceeds from the sale of the Studio Protector support the production and distribution of artists emergency resources.