Center for Craft 25th anniversary logo in red
Center for Craft 25th anniversary logo in red

News at the center

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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May 30, 2023

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A Foundation for Success

Center for Craft Announces the 2023 Windgate-Lamar Fellows

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December 21, 2021

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Celebrating 25 Years of Investing in Craft Artists

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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Most Recent PRESS RELEASES

Jake Holler

May 20, 2024

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RIPSTOP's Transformational Inflatables

Max Adrian’s playful interrogations of queer identity explore infrastructure, surveillance, and desire

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November 29, 2023

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WNC Artists Get Spotlight in Center for Craft's New Residency

Applications are open now for the WNC Center for Craft Artist in Residence

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September 27, 2023

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Krafthouse 2023 Opens September 28

An immersive “post-event Appalachia” will soon welcome explorers at the Center for Craft

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Archive

The Windgate Museum Internship program provides $5,000 stipends to undergraduate or graduate students who work under the direction of curators or directors. Five host institutions are seeking interns this year.

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NCECA Recap

Apr 1, 2021

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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.

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Warren Wilson College MA in Craft Studies Program

In January, graduate students from Warren Wilson College’s MA in Critical and Historical Craft Studies program were in residence at the Center for Craft in downtown Asheville, NC. Housed in the Center for Craft’s lower level “Ideation Lab,” the winter residency inspired productive conversations that reflected the students’ physical surroundings; ideas were built collaboratively starting at a ground-level.

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The Center selects three curatorial teams to fully develop and mount their proposed exhibition in the Center’s gallery, located in Asheville, North Carolina.

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