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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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"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."
"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."
The Center's past grant & fellowship recipients are conducting, participating in, and organizing virtual events. We've gathered them here.
Jake Holler
Max Adrian’s playful interrogations of queer identity explore infrastructure, surveillance, and desire
Most Recent PRESS RELEASES
This campaign was launched in 2017 to fortify and expand the Center.
The Computer Pays its Debt explores the connection between technology and textiles
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.
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
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.
Screenshot from Swinney Creative 3D Tour
Virtually explore Center for Craft while physical distancing.
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.