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April 16, 2025
The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft
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Unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 are available through Phase 2 of the Craft Futures Fund
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Visitors to downtown Asheville could soon get a new view of the cityscape at the intersection of Broadway and Woodfin Avenue.
Artspace Survey Findings Ripple out into Asheville’s Development Sector
Teri Graves, Khoiye-Goo Mah, 2004. Cut beads, silver lined seed beads, found tennis shoes. Museum of Arts and Design; purchase with funds provided by the Collections Committee, 2004
A visionary program dedicated to supporting scholarly craft research in the United States, the 2020 Craft Research Fund awarded 11 organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students, who will receive a total of $94,310.04 to support research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the field of craft.
The Center for Craft is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Craft Research Fund grants. This year 11 organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students will receive a total of $98,771 to support craft-centered research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the United States.
A new show pairs two regional multimedia artists investigating culture, material, and masks in the American South
Warren Wilson College MA in Craft Studies Program
In January, graduate students from Warren Wilson College’s MA in Critical and Historical Craft Studies program were in residence at the Center for Craft in downtown Asheville, NC. Housed in the Center for Craft’s lower level “Ideation Lab,” the winter residency inspired productive conversations that reflected the students’ physical surroundings; ideas were built collaboratively starting at a ground-level.