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Join with us to catalyze craft communities and amplify craft’s impact in the United States. Your donation or membership makes our work possible.

Match What Matters

Give to the Campaign

Now through June 2024, first-time donations are doubled thanks to a generosity of an Anonymous donor. Dollar-for-dollar, the Center for Craft will steward your gift to the area of greatest need. Already a supporter of the Center for Craft? Consider increasing your largest gift by $1 or more to participate in Match What Matters.

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Building a Future for Craft Campaign

The Center’s first comprehensive campaign, currently at 96% of an $11 million goal, provides for a 21st-century visitor experience, free public programming, and a prestigious national grants program endowed in perpetuity. You can make a one-time, recurring, or multi-year gift by visiting our donate page. (can we link here?) See below for ways your gift can go even further.

Ways to Give

Annual Fund

Annual Fund contributions of any size provide vital support where it’s needed most. From giving emerging craft leaders critical resources to offering innovative programming and exhibitions, your gift will strengthen the field of craft today.

Corporate Sponsorship and Giving

Align your brand with the Center for Craft through exhibition, program, reception, and event sponsorship! With a growing regional and national audience, we provide a range of opportunities and benefits to best suit your company.

Legacy Giving and Endowment Opportunities

Leave a lasting legacy and increase your giving potential for craft futures through planned giving. We seek endowments for the fellowships, residencies, programs, and staff positions we want to endure permanently.

Annual Fund

Annual Fund contributions of any size provide support where it is needed most. From delivering critical resources to emerging craft leaders, to underwriting innovative exhibitions and programs, to preserving craft history—your gift strengthens our work to amplify craft's relevance.

Appreciated Securities and Other Assets

Your gift of stocks, mutual funds, and distributions from Donor Advised Funds and IRAs fuel the Center's capacity to provide grants and fellowships to makers and scholars advancing the field of craft.

Legacy Giving and Endowment Opportunities

Support a craft fellowship over three, five, or 10 years. Planned giving is a meaningful way to create a legacy while taking advantage of tax benefits for you and your heirs. Endowment gifts can help sustain our programs in perpetuity.

Questions? Email Development Manager Olivia Hutto
ohutto@centerforcraft.org

Center for Craft is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 56-2096677

Sponsorship Opportunities

Underwrite public programs and exhibitions and underscore the belief that craft matters.

The Center for Craft gratefully acknowledges our family of supporters for their generous contributions.

Become a Member

Give to the Campaign

Starting at just $45 a year, you can join a network of support across the United States.

Your membership helps us do what we do best—catalyze the makers and
thought leaders advancing the preservation and innovation of craft.

When you become a member, you’ll receive:

Gain access to monthly updates

Invites to exhibition openings, special events, and talks with artists and curators

Receive members-only content such as early grantee notifications

A specially designed welcome gift from one of our alumni artists

Discounted merchandise and Date Night event tickets

Discounts in our Shop on unique objects made by alumni artists and other curated goods

JOIN NOW

Building a Future for Craft Campaign

The Center’s first comprehensive campaign, currently at 96% of an $11 million goal, provides for a 21st-century visitor experience, free public programming, and a prestigious national grants program endowed in perpetuity. You can make a one-time, recurring, or multi-year gift by visiting our donate page. (can we link here?) See below for ways your gift can go even further.

We are grateful for the support of our members.

What people are saying about the CEnter

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"This is the perfect opportunity for me to continue having a ceramics practice after undergrad and will let me travel to the country of my roots (Dominican Republic) to learn more about my family, history, culture, and self."

Sydnie Jimenez, 2020 Windgate-Lamar Fellow

[I am a] step closer to finishing my book project that started many years ago when the Center for Craft supported my dissertation. I’m very grateful for all the mentorship and support that I've received from the community. The Center's support is meaningful to me and I appreciate it. Thank you!

Kayleigh Perkov, Independent Scholar

“The support of makers through the Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship is forward-thinking at a crucial time when the ideology of craft has the ability to promote sustainability and the building of community.”

BA Harrington, 2020 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellow

Impact

We envision a culture where communities celebrate and embrace the centrality of craft in everyday life.

If you have questions, please contact Executive Director Stephanie Moore at smoore@centerforcraft.org.

Impact

We envision a culture where communities celebrate and embrace the centrality of craft in everyday life.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Moore, Executive Director at smoore@centerforcraft.org.

The Center for Craft and our programming are supported in part by many generous individuals, partners, and funders including the Windgate Foundation, John and Robyn Horn Foundation, Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, UNC Asheville, Warren Wilson College, Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, AARP, Mountain Region North Carolina, as well as

Buncombe County Government, and

a division of the

Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

It’s the generosity of our supporters that allow the Center for Craft to advance the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, critical dialogue, and professional development in the United States.

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