News at the center
April 16, 2025
The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft
Most Recent News
Watch our interview with both artists from our exhibition, "Shapeshifters."
Virtually explore Center for Craft while physical distancing.
Jake Holler
Max Adrian’s playful interrogations of queer identity explore infrastructure, surveillance, and desire
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
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.
Colin Knight, "With Changing Tides," 2020.
This year’s ten fellows receive a total of $150,000.
"Remember that when people say you’re weird, it’s always a compliment – even if they don’t mean it that way."
Salvador Jiménez-Flores, "The Resistance of the Hybrid Cacti" (Detail), 2017.
Six contemporary artists of color use humor to interrogate social issues in the latest Curatorial Fellows exhibit