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
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.
Jake Holler
Max Adrian’s playful interrogations of queer identity explore infrastructure, surveillance, and desire
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
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?
Twenty-one artists have received $10,000 and supportive connections.
Beer pouring, Photo by Meritt Thomas on Unsplash
A non-comprehensive list of native-owned or loved food and beverage destinations to explore!
Interdisciplinary convergence and discussion to shape the Center for Craft’s future direction
In total, the 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship, Exhibition Grant, and Project Grant awarded $137,135 to eleven organizations, scholars, and makers in support of craft research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the United States.
ᏚᏍᏓᏯᎫᎾᏱ Gabriel Crow, "Eye of the Sacred Bird," 2020.
Cherokee basket makers interweave lineage and innovation