The Center For Craft Creativity & Design Inc

Programs: The center for craft, creativity & design is recognized within its regional community and in the craft field nationally as a leading arts organization. The center works nationally to advance the understanding of craft through awarding grants, building strategic partnership, and facilitating national initiatives. Associated with groundbreaking work in the scholarship of american craft, the center has addressed a shortfall of craft history and criticism by driving national initiatives in craft and higher education. This includes the creation of the craft research fund, the only dedicated grant program supporting scholarly craft research. Additional grants include the windgate fellowship awards to emerging craft artists graduating from universities, and windgate museum internship program or craft-focused curatorial internships within museums. In fy2017 the center received 258 grant applications and awarded

44 recipients a total of $338,305 through these granting programs. In order to expand its national outreach, the center is partnering with the museum of arts and design and bard graduate center on the first windgate research and collections curator position and has begun planning for a joint fy19 symposium in new york city. The center also continues to work with warren wilson college to develop the first masters-level program in craft studies set to launch summer 2018. A natural outgrowth of thi

the center works regionally to advance the understanding of craft through mounting exhibitions in a downtown asheville, nc gallery space that is free and open to the public. In addition the center develops educational programming and publishes interpretive materials like exhibition catalogs. In fy17 the center organized and mounted 6 exhibitions, published 3 catalogs, showcased the work of 90 artists, and had a total of 6,913 in-house visitors. Two exhibitions were curated by the center's curato