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May 13, 2025
Grant honors 10 graduating college seniors for excellence in craft
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The Center for Craft is excited to be working with the Asheville-based design firm Shelter Collective on an immersive reading lounge within the National Craft Innovation Hub.
Establishing an Experimental Weaving Residency to Bridge Art and Engineering
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Grant honors 10 graduating college seniors for excellence in craft
Participants awarded $600,000 in grants to help rebuild region's craft community
Unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 are available through Phase 2 of the Craft Futures Fund
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.