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Announcing the 2023 Craft and Community Vitality Grants Awardees

Six projects were selected to receive a $2,200 grant and will be partnered with the University of North Carolina Asheville’s UNC Gillings Master of Public Health program to explore the community well-being impacts of craft in Western North Carolina

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WNC Center for Craft Artist in Residence

Applications due December 15

The WNC Center for Craft Artist Residency will provide two Western North Carolina (WNC) based artists with time, space, and resources to tend to their artistic practices.

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Craft and Community Vitality Grants

Craft and Community Vitality Grants will support six artists, artist collectives, or art organizations with $2,200 grants to use craft to engage with regional communities in Western North Carolina.

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Craft Matters

Center for Craft evolves strategic direction to explore how and why craft matters. Craft Matters is focused on activating resources, catalyzing craft communities, and amplifying craft’s impact.

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Connections in the Making

Craft has the capacity to connect us to each other, to ground us in a specific place, and to bridge generations across time. Connections in the Making features works by regional artists, craftspeople, and entrepreneurs that tell different stories about the ways craft connects us.

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Hammer and Hope

“Hammer and Hope” features two contemporary furniture makers – Robell Awake and Charlie Ryland – whose work engages with the contributions of a family of skilled Black craftspeople of the antebellum South who have been largely erased from the historical archive. Through contemporary chair-making, they imagine a counter-narrative that centers and celebrates the contributions of Black makers in the past and present.

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Preservers, Innovators, and Rescuers of Culture in Chiapas

“Preservers, Innovators, and Rescuers of Culture in Chiapas” (November 17, 2023 - July 13, 2024) features textiles by acclaimed Indigenous artisanas (artists) from Chiapas, Mexico commissioned by 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellow, Aram Han Sifuentes.

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Hammer and Hope

“Hammer and Hope” features two contemporary furniture makers – Robell Awake and Charlie Ryland – whose work engages with the contributions of a family of skilled Black craftspeople of the antebellum South who have been largely erased from the historical archive. Through contemporary chair-making, they imagine a counter-narrative that centers and celebrates the contributions of Black makers in the past and present.

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Grants & Fellowships

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Applications are Open for Windgate Museum Internships

The 2019 Windgate Museum Internship Host Institutions are: Asheville Art Museum; Hancock Shaker Village; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Morris Museum of Art; and Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco). Applicants apply directly through each institution.

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Activating Resources

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Applications are Open for Windgate Museum Internships

The 2019 Windgate Museum Internship Host Institutions are: Asheville Art Museum; Hancock Shaker Village; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Morris Museum of Art; and Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco). Applicants apply directly through each institution.

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Activating Resources

Grants & Fellowships

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Applications are Open for Windgate Museum Internships

The 2019 Windgate Museum Internship Host Institutions are: Asheville Art Museum; Hancock Shaker Village; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Morris Museum of Art; and Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco). Applicants apply directly through each institution.