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Watch our interview with both artists from our exhibition, "Shapeshifters."
Virtually explore Center for Craft while physical distancing.
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.
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The Center for Craft is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Craft Research Fund grants. This year 11 organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students will receive a total of $98,771 to support craft-centered research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the United States.
Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority $975,000 grant brings campaign to 90 percent.
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.
Courtesy of Reggie Tidwell
"Creativity is at the foundation of what I do professionally and personally. It's a necessary outlet for me."
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.
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.
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).