Get ready for Craft Watch, a national watch party and friend-raiser for the Center for Craft.
Originally scheduled to air when Hurricane Helene hit, Craft Watch is now coming to you on April 3. Join us for an exciting keynote conversation about the present and future of craft, as well as the presentation of our Catalyst Award.
All funds support the Center for Craft's recovery. Ticket purchases come with a one-year membership.
The virtual event brings together television, personalities Tan France (“Queer Eye,” “Next in Fashion”) and Katherine Gray (“Blown Away”), to platform the Center for Craft’s mission on a national stage. This conversation will be moderated by Deborah Needleman, basketmaker, former editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and founding editor-in-chief of Domino magazine.
Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1976 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. Aguiñiga works with traditional craft materials like natural fibers and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects.
Tanya Aguiñiga
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Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s transnational community. She founded AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. She was recently awarded the Latinx Art Forum: Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022), Heinz Award (2021), and an Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities (2018). Her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt and Renwick Museums, and the Museum of Art and Design among others.
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Barbara Berlin, SHENEQUA Brooks, Jennifer Calvert Hall, Michele Cohen, Helen Drutt, Lee Eagle, Elizabeth Essner, Louise Glickman, Ray Hemachandra, Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Stephanie Moore, Diana N’Diaye, Rebecca Ravenal, Lacey Stryker, Tim Tate, Céline Vaaler, Eric Wilcox, Patricia Young, Steven Young Lee
67 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801
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Gallery Hours: Tues–Sat, 10–6 get more info
Gallery Hours: Closed — Reopening Fall 2019
