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April 16, 2025
The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft
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The Center for Craft is excited to be working with the Asheville-based design firm Shelter Collective on an immersive reading lounge within the National Craft Innovation Hub.
Establishing an Experimental Weaving Residency to Bridge Art and Engineering
Jake Holler
Max Adrian’s playful interrogations of queer identity explore infrastructure, surveillance, and desire
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
A new grant supporting creative responses to COVID-19 for craft communities.
This year’s recipients receive a total of $30,000
This year’s ten fellows receive a total of $150,000.
Conservators analyzing a printed textile with high magnification. (Image courtesy of the American Institute for Conservation and Foundation for Advancement in Conservation)
The Center for Craft annually grants $135,000 to academic researchers, scholars, and curators writing, revising, and reclaiming the history of craft through the Craft Research Fund Grants.
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.
Courtesy of Reggie Tidwell
"Creativity is at the foundation of what I do professionally and personally. It's a necessary outlet for me."
Lissa Shairer, picturing Harrington (left), LeRoy Grafe, picturing Luger (right).
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.