The UNC
Asheville Craft Campus will be the leading undergraduate craft
studies program in our nation while re-centering and advancing the
American studio craft movement in Asheville and Western North
Carolina. We will accomplish this by educating new makers, teachers,
scholars, collectors, and advocates who
will communicate, strengthen and sustain the power of the handmade
object and its rich cultural and economic heritage.
The
UNC Asheville Craft Campus will serve as a national model for
dynamic interdisciplinary craft education. The Craft Campus
facility will be comprised of interconnected state-of-the-art
studios in ceramics, glass, sculpture/metal, and wood.
Capitalizing on the
location in Western North Carolina and the well-recognized UNC
Asheville faculty, we will develop 4-year degree and community outreach programming in accordance with our commitment
to invest in the people of North Carolina while supporting and
recognizing our strong cultural heritage. This programming will be
rooted in the liberal arts, entrepreneurship and the environment and
will be responsive to a recent change in craft education that
supports decentralization of individual media in favor of
collaboration across disciplines.
Graduates of the program will explore their professional and
personal lives throughout the state, bringing with them, as makers, teachers, scholars, collectors,
and advocates, a
value of the handmade object that reflects and sustains the
communities in which they live.
