Center for Craft 25th anniversary logo in red
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November 12, 2018

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Center for Craft Receives $5.7M Endowment

The Center for Craft received a $5.7 million gift from the Windgate Charitable Foundation of Little Rock, Arkansas to endow the Center’s longstanding fellowship programs. Named after celebrated wood sculptor Stoney Lamar, the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund supports the perpetual offering of fellowships to emerging artists and curators.

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Breana Hendricks

January 1, 2018

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Spotlight on 2017 Windgate Fellow Breana Hendricks

2017 Windgate Fellowship recipient and ceramicist Breana Hendricks used her $15,000 grant to travel, expanding her historical research, while further developing her skills in making.

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Most Recent PRESS RELEASES

Teri Graves, Khoiye-Goo Mah, 2004. Cut beads, silver lined seed beads, found tennis shoes. Museum of Arts and Design; purchase with funds provided by the Collections Committee, 2004

February 5, 2020

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Center for Craft Announces 2020 Awardees for Exhibitions, Projects, & Research in the Field

A visionary program dedicated to supporting scholarly craft research in the United States, the 2020 Craft Research Fund awarded 11 organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students, who will receive a total of $94,310.04 to support research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the field of craft.

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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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Spotlighting internationally renowned ceramicist Magdalene Odundo and Craft Futures Award Honoree Michael Sherrill

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NCECA Recap

Apr 1, 2021

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The Windgate Museum Internship program provides $5,000 stipends to undergraduate or graduate students who work under the direction of curators or directors. Five host institutions are seeking interns this year.

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Breana Hendricks

2017 Windgate Fellowship recipient and ceramicist Breana Hendricks used her $15,000 grant to travel, expanding her historical research, while further developing her skills in making.

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The Center for Craft and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to share the Asheville Arts Market Study, an analysis of the Art Market Survey conducted in Winter/Spring 2018 to assess affordable housing and space needs for Asheville’s creatives, including artists, makers, performers, musicians, writers, designers, etc.

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