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April 16, 2025

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Center for Craft Receives Historic National Award

The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft

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gif of textile screen up-close. Little trails of black fluid move through tubes that are woven into a textile to create a screen.

Soft Monitor

September 12, 2020

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WATCH: Ask the Researcher with Victoria Manganiello and Julian Goldman

We spoke with the collaborators of Soft Monitor, who received the 2020 Materials-Based Research Grant.

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2020 Curatorial Fellow Kayleigh Perkov smiling on a Zoom chat sitting in an office, wearing a pink blouse on "Ask the Curator" by Center for Craft

September 2, 2020

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WATCH: Ask the Curator with Kayleigh Perkov

This conversation allowed for a deeper investigation of the exhibition's themes and history as intended by 2020 Curatorial Fellow Kayleigh Perkov, supplemented by the additional perspectives of guests Elissa Auther (MAD), Bobbye Tigerman (LACMA), and Lisa Nakamura (U-M LSA).

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Most Recent PRESS RELEASES

November 13, 2019

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Center for Craft Celebrates Reopening and National Craft Innovation Hub with Craft Futures 2099

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.

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September 25, 2019

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Center for Craft Invites Public to Grand Reopening on November 16

On Saturday, November 16, the Center for Craft will celebrate its public grand reopening after nearly a year of renovations to its historic 1912 building at 67 Broadway in downtown Asheville.

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Archive

The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft

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Artspace Survey Findings Ripple out into Asheville’s Development Sector

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The Center for Craft is hiring a Materials Research Fellow.

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The inaugural event on October 18 features Tan France and other luminaries in a wholly new benefit model, supported by national watch parties

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The Center for Craft is excited to work with several partner organizations across 26 counties in Western North Carolina to invest in and grow the capacity, strength, and sustainability of our region’s creative manufacturing economy.

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Applications are open now for the WNC Center for Craft Artist in Residence

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