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The Center for Craft is hiring a Director of Development and Marketing.
Interview with Ali McGhee
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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.
Asheville Citizen-TImes
The gallery will support emerging makers and foster talent with the help of local donors.
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.
Juliana Barton, photo by Sarah Milinski
Introducing ACLS Leading Edge Fellow: Juliana Barton
"Soft Monitor," Victoria Manganiello and Julian Goldman
This year’s recipients receive a total of $30,000