US$50k craft award winners announced

Aspen Golann, US$50,000 cash USA Fellow award winner, 2025. Photo: Tom Condon

United States Artists (USA) have announced their 2025 USA Fellows, a cohort of 50 artists and collectives from 10 creative disciplines. Honouring the contributions to their respective communities and the broader culture of the nation, each awardee will receive a $50,000 unrestricted cash award.

Additionally, the Fellows receive access to professional services and field resources supporting their practice. The fellowship is awarded through a year-long peer-led selection process in the disciplines of Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theatre and Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing.

USA Fellows are selected based on their artistic visions, unique perspectives within their fields, and evident potential for the award to make a significant impact in their practices and lives.

Above: A Partially Draped Cabinet by Aspen Golann. Mahogany, hand-enameled glass, brass hardware. Photo courtesy of the artist.

The 2025 Craft Award winners are: Aspen Golann (woodworker), Anjali Srinivasan (glass artist), David Harper Clemons (metalsmith and multidisciplinary artist), Jocelyne Prince (experimental object/non-object maker) Jocelyne Prince, Tzu-Ju Chen (jewellery artist).

In 2023, Aspen Golann's received an restricted US$100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft, also administered by by United States Artists. In 2024 Raul De Lara, a sculptor who practises storytelling through woodworking, received a US$100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft.

Soft Chair Series by 2024 Craft Award recipient Raul De Lara. Mesquite, Siberian elm, walnut, lacquer, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Launched in 2006, the USA Fellowship is United States Artists’ flagship program, through which it has distributed over US$41 million to date to more than 1,000 creative practitioners with over $50 million of direct support. As an unrestricted award, the USA Fellowship embodies the organisation’s commitment to unconditional support of artists, giving awardees the agency to allocate the funds however they choose, whether it be towards expanding their practices, paying rent, acquiring healthcare, or investing in their communities. Given the scale and breadth of the program, USA engages with a plurality of creative communities across the United States, going beyond conventional art world centers and embracing often overlooked mediums and approaches.