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October 15, 2025
Two major craft organizations make a landmark transfer to foster the preservation of craft history
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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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Applications are open now for the WNC Center for Craft Artist in Residence

An immersive “post-event Appalachia” will soon welcome explorers at the Center for Craft

Center for Craft and the University of North Carolina Asheville launch new regional grant program to consider craft’s role in healthy communities.

Black Box Photography
The Center's past grant & fellowship recipients are conducting, participating in, and organizing virtual events. We've gathered them here.

Visitors to downtown Asheville could soon get a new view of the cityscape at the intersection of Broadway and Woodfin Avenue.

Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority $975,000 grant brings campaign to 90 percent.

Southern Highland Craft Guild Archives
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.