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October 15, 2025

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Center for Craft to Acquire the American Craft Council Library & Archives Collections

Two major craft organizations make a landmark transfer to foster the preservation of craft history

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Lissa Shairer, picturing Harrington (left), LeRoy Grafe, picturing Luger (right).

January 21, 2020

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Expanding Research and Knowledge through Craft Process: Announcing the Inaugural Craft Research Fund Artist Fellows

The Center for Craft is thrilled to announce two inaugural awardees for the 2020 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship: BA Harrington and Cannupa Hanska Luger.

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November 20, 2019

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Center for Craft Launches Donor Tile Appeal as part of Liminal Public Art Commission

The Center for Craft is proud to launch a named donor tile appeal in conjunction with the installation of Ian Henderson and Shae Bishop’s Liminal.

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November 13, 2019

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Center for Craft Celebrates Reopening and National Craft Innovation Hub with Craft Futures 2099

On Nov. 16, Center for Craft will celebrate the Building a Future for Craft campaign and the Grand Reopening of the National Craft Innovation Hub with Craft Futures 2099, an exhibition featuring 10 national and local multimedia artists envisioning craft as it might look 80 years from now. The exhibition will be open in the Center’s new Bresler Family Gallery through February 29, 2020.

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Black Box Photography

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

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Establishing an Experimental Weaving Residency to Bridge Art and Engineering

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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.

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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.

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