Keep Craft Alive

This campaign celebrates those who have chosen to passionately pursue a career in design, building, and remodeling. Use #KeepCraftAlive on social media to share your passion for the cause and to showcase inspirational people and their work.

Keep Craft Alive: Elly Hart, Carpentry Apprentice
"I took a really big risk … in an industry where people don’t look like me."
Keep Craft Alive: Josh Ford, PV Installer
”I want to do something that actually makes a difference.”
Keep Craft Alive: Ben Brunick, Woodworker
“If you can make a board flat, straight, and square, you can do just about anything.”
Keep Craft Alive: Paul Johnson, Remodeler
“When a client says, 'this is beautiful,' that isn't just luck."
Keep Craft Alive: Tyler Grace, Remodeling Contractor
“Basically, I want to get paid for being fussy.”
Keep Craft Alive: Luke Thomas Gaffney, Welding Foreman
“Everybody I went to school with is behind a desk somewhere, and they think I’m the crazy one.”
Keep Craft Alive: Jeff Longo, Plumber
“Too many people see plumbers as overweight, uneducated slobs.”
Keep Craft Alive: Brian Post, Waller
“The stones in a wall are trying their hardest to get to the center of the earth … it’s a waller’s job to defy that.”
Keep Craft Alive: Monica Coyne, Blacksmith
“If I’m given a task in my shop, I solve it ... If I need a tool, I make it.”
Help Keep Craft Alive
Fine Homebuilding is launching a campaign to help close the skills gap.

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