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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

To mark our 25th Anniversary, the Center for Craft awarded twenty Windgate-Lamar Fellows with an additional unrestricted $10,000 to encourage continued practice in craft, in addition to participation in career consultation sessions and networking opportunities.

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Courtesy of Hannah Lowman.

"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."

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Center for Craft Announces the 2021 Windgate-Lamar Fellows

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Courtesy of Tessa Fontaine

"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."

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

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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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