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October 15, 2025
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To mark our 25th Anniversary, the Center for Craft awarded twenty Windgate-Lamar Fellows with an additional unrestricted $10,000 to encourage continued practice in craft, in addition to participation in career consultation sessions and networking opportunities.

"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."

"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."
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The Computer Pays its Debt explores the connection between technology and textiles

A new exhibit is set to open at the Center for Craft. “Crafted Roots: Stories and Objects from the Appalachian Mountains,” is curated by Michael Hatch, MA in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Class of 2020. The exhibit is Hatch’s final Practicum Project towards degree completion. Hatch is the owner of Asheville-area glassblowing studio and gallery Crucible Glassworks.

A new grant supporting creative responses to COVID-19 for craft communities.

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.

Lara Nguyen, Connective Contours (Lara, Steven, Sather, Jess), Digital illustration. Image courtesy of the artist.
Warren Wilson College has organized a new exhibit, “Mirror/Mentor,” now on view at the Center for Craft’s John Cram Partner Gallery.

Colin Knight, "With Changing Tides," 2020.
This year’s ten fellows receive a total of $150,000.