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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.
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.
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
An immersive “post-event Appalachia” will soon welcome explorers at the Center for Craft
Center for Craft and the University of North Carolina Asheville launch new regional grant program to consider craft’s role in healthy communities.
Center for Craft’s immersive art installation asks: What will Appalachia be in a post-major event future?
The Center for Craft is proud to launch a named donor tile appeal in conjunction with the installation of Ian Henderson and Shae Bishop’s Liminal.
Photo courtesy of Michael Sherrill
Gifts will honor artist and past board president, Michael Sherrill with a named lecture hall
Gabriel .A. Maher, Technologies for Seductive Criticism, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.
Nine artists map longing and transformation in the latest Curatorial Fellowship