News at the center
April 16, 2025
The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft
Most Recent News
We asked this year’s awardees to tell us how previous research informs their current studies and what they are excited about for the future.
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Unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 are available through Phase 2 of the Craft Futures Fund
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
Gifts will honor artist and past board president, Michael Sherrill with a named lecture hall
$150,000 awarded to undergraduate students in the U.S.
A new show pairs two regional multimedia artists investigating culture, material, and masks in the American South
Center for Craft and the University of North Carolina Asheville launch new regional grant program to consider craft’s role in healthy communities.
Center for Craft’s immersive art installation asks: What will Appalachia be in a post-major event future?
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Twenty-one artists have received $10,000 and supportive connections.
Since 2005, the Center for Craft has supported 223 projects in 39 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia by distributing over $1,800,000 through the Craft Research Fund grant program.