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April 16, 2025
The JRACraft One-of-a-Kind Award honors the Center’s extraordinary support of craft
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This January, graduate students from Warren Wilson College’s Critical and Historical Craft Studies program will be in residence at Center for Craft.
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.
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.
Jake Holler
Max Adrian’s playful interrogations of queer identity explore infrastructure, surveillance, and desire
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
The Center for Craft annually grants $135,000 to academic researchers, scholars, and curators writing, revising, and reclaiming the history of craft through the Craft Research Fund Grants.
Nine artists map longing and transformation in the latest Curatorial Fellowship
Warren Wilson College has organized a new exhibit, “Mirror/Mentor,” now on view at the Center for Craft’s John Cram Partner Gallery.
Courtesy of Liz Anupama
"Do what you want to do right now -- don't wait for someone to hold your hand. The universe is a magical place. You will always be taken care of."
Teri Graves, Khoiye-Goo Mah, 2004. Cut beads, silver lined seed beads, found tennis shoes. Museum of Arts and Design; purchase with funds provided by the Collections Committee, 2004
A visionary program dedicated to supporting scholarly craft research in the United States, the 2020 Craft Research Fund awarded 11 organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students, who will receive a total of $94,310.04 to support research, exhibitions, catalogs, and projects in the field of craft.
A new show pairs two regional multimedia artists investigating culture, material, and masks in the American South
67 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 785-1357 | info@centerforcraft.org
Gallery Hours: Tues–Sat, 10–6 get more info
Gallery Hours: Closed — Reopening Fall 2019
