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Ahavah Ariel Sacred Arts

“In the last 10 years, I’ve watched wildfires, tornadoes & floods take out three of the towns that I’ve lived in,” Ratliff says...

Read the article: resilience.org/stories/2025-01

"Van Bergen says most of the Appalachian makers she knows work from home. And if they lose their home, they lose not only where they live but where they work.

“You have kind of a double impact if you have a flood, because then you lose your home and your life and your livelihood,” she says."

The Arts Organization Helping Transform Appalachia’s Craft Economy - by Kristi Eaton, originally published by Barn Raiser January 13, 2025 Creative entrepreneurs are getting needed support to grow & sustain their businesses after Hurricane Helene. Image: Mixed media on wood depiction of Dolly Parton by Stef Ratliff, who has worked & received support from Nest, a nonprofit committed to advancing economic opportunity & gender equity for makers in the U.S. and abroad. (Courtesy Stef Ratliff) "...After Helene, Nest partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund, Etsy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create a guidance document on how makers can apply for funding if they lost a critical part of their business. “If you lost your sewing machine, your inventory, all these things in addition to your home,” van Bergen says, the guide helped artists craft their application “in a way that won’t get you denied FEMA funding.” Casey Papendieck, owner of Turtle Farm Pottery in Wolfe County, Kentucky, says Hurricane Helene has severely impacted his business. “I don’t even know how it’s going to play out yet, but we get all of our clay made commercially,” he says. “We purchase from a manufacturer in Asheville. They make our clay, and we buy all our dry materials for making glazes from them, and a lot of our tools & equipment. They’re our main distributor, where we get almost everything for our business, and they’re completely offline. I’ve had no updates from them.”
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Jan 15, 2025, 01:24 AM·Public·Web
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