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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.
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A new exhibit is set to open at the Center for Craft. “Crafted Roots: Stories and Objects from the Appalachian Mountains,” is curated by Michael Hatch, MA in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Class of 2020. The exhibit is Hatch’s final Practicum Project towards degree completion. Hatch is the owner of Asheville-area glassblowing studio and gallery Crucible Glassworks.
A new grant supporting creative responses to COVID-19 for craft communities.
This year’s ten fellows receive a total of $150,000.
On Saturday, November 16, the Center for Craft will celebrate its public grand reopening after nearly a year of renovations to its historic 1912 building at 67 Broadway in downtown Asheville.
Screenshot from Swinney Creative 3D Tour
Virtually explore Center for Craft while physical distancing.
Left to right: "Response Patterns," Work Sample: Millington, Fitch, Zhang. // "Knit Structure Exploration, Short Row in Cashmere and Monofilament” Photo credit: Melissa Conroy. // “C O M P U T E R 1.0” - 2019 (MAD Museum) Photo by Kelly Vigil.
We asked this year’s awardees to tell us how previous research informs their current studies and what they are excited about for the future.
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