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Now more than ever, craft needs you. Join us—become a builder of the future of craft.
You can show your support for craft and the creative community by naming principal spaces in the Center’s newly renovated historic building in downtown Asheville.
Show your support for craft for generations to come by naming a tile on our building. The named tile wall complements Liminal, a work of art by Ian Henderson, installed on the front of our new National Craft Innovation Hub.
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.
When you support the Craft Futures Fund, you will help to provide one-time, unrestricted grants to craft-based education projects across the country that seed resilience, foster community, and amplify impact.
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.
Craft your legacy and increase your giving potential both now and in the future through planned giving. Please consult your personal legal, tax, and/or financial advisor to see if this might be the right option for you.
The Center for Craft is working in collaboration with members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to create a public art parklet to preserve and advance the important craft legacy of western North Carolina.
“In 2012, I was the recipient of a Windgate-Lamar Fellowship…which allowed me to build my studio. I don’t think I’d be able to do the work I do today without the generous support of the Center for Craft and the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship.”
Brian Fleetwood, 2012 Windgate-Lamar Fellow
“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
"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
Naming Opportunities
A $100,000 challenge gift in honor of preeminent craft artist and past board member Michael Sherrill, who is commemorated in the Center for Craft’s new space with the Michael Sherrill Loft.
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A $25,000 challenge gift from McKibbon Hospitality Chairman, John McKibbon honoring Asheville arts advocate John Cram with the John Cram Partner Gallery in the Center’s renovated space.
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The campaign presents a special opportunity for major donors and organizations to make commitments that will name principal spaces.
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With your help, the Center remains committed to a vision of a thriving national craft field built upon a deep understanding of the history of craft, lively critical discourse, thoughtful making, and a strong next generation.
If you have any questions, please contact Erin Cameron, Development Director at ecameron@centerforcraft.org
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In order to increase the value and relevance of craft to society, the Center works to advance the understanding of craft in higher education, museums and cultural institutions, and across disciplines. Field building strategies include convening thought leaders, creating, documenting and disseminating research, and launching innovative leadership initiatives. We provide grants and fellowships to emerging and established craft artists, curators, and scholars in order to build a future for the field of craft.
Recognizing that Asheville and the surrounding area has been a bastion for craft in the United States dating back to the Cherokee, the Center is actively working to preserve and advance the craft legacy of Western North Carolina through the development of our property in downtown Asheville, North Carolina and through a series of exhibitions and community-focused initiatives.
67 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801
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Gallery Hours: Closed — Reopening Fall 2019
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