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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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Most Recent News

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Courtesy of Hannah Lowman.

December 20, 2021

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Meet a Maker Monday: Hannah Lowman

"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."

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Courtesy of Tessa Fontaine

October 18, 2021

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Meet a Maker Monday: Tessa Fontaine

"Don't try so hard to figure it all out right now. Say yes to everything that comes your way."

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Black Box Photography

November 18, 2020

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Virtual Events With Center for Craft Grant Recipients

The Center's past grant & fellowship recipients are conducting, participating in, and organizing virtual events. We've gathered them here.

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Most Recent PRESS RELEASES

David Huff Creative

December 9, 2024

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Grant Applications Open Now for Craft Artists and Arts Organizations

Unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 are available through Phase 2 of the Craft Futures Fund

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September 4, 2024

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Craft Watch to Catalyze the National Craft Community

The inaugural event on October 18 features Tan France and other luminaries in a wholly new benefit model, supported by national watch parties

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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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