HandMade in America - Craft Events Calendar
Sheville Staff
Calendar of Craft Events
Looking for a craft event near you? Coming to the area and want to go to a craft festival? Want to learn a craft or brush up on your techniques? Find events near you in our Craft Events Calendar
Sheville Staff
Visual Arts and Crafts/Galleries - a sampling of the many diverse artistic styles
and media that Asheville and Western North Carolina have to offer. Please contact us at
info@sheville.org if you would like to
be added to this list or to have your active website url included.
**Visitors, please call ahead to check hours of operation**
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Visit the Arts in Western North Carolina and support our local artists and crafts people. more...
Quotable - Alice Walker
Alice Walker
"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
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Hunter Library, Special Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC
Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present is a collaborative Heritage Partners grant funded by the Library Services and Technology Act. more...
HATCH Asheville
Sheville Staff
HATCH Asheville is a non-profit organization.
The mission of HATCH is to provide mentorship, education, inspiration and recognition to the next generation of creative innovators. We focus on the creative industries and how to best leverage our creative professions to impact the community and the planet in a positive and sustainable way. HATCHfest brings together luminaries in the arts and entertainment world to serve as mentors to groundbreaking new creative talent. We host panels, workshops, keynotes, exhibits, networking parties, and mentoring sessions for four days in the heart of downtown Asheville.
Hatch Asheville
Handmade in America
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from Handmade in America...
Every region and community has its unique gifts and challenges. In Western North Carolina, one of those gifts is our extraordinary, rich heritage of handcraft.
Our Mission is to celebrate the hand and the handmade, to nurture the creation of traditional and contemporary craft, to revere and protect our resources, and to preserve and enrich the spiritual, cultural and community life of our region.
M. Linda Rowe
The handcraft tradition in North Carolina is a long one and includes items as diverse as dulcimers and pottery, knives and quilts. Handmade never meant that tools were not used, but that the tools ran on human power, not motor power. In the 20th century, electricity reached even the most remote mountain coves and hollows, and along with it came machinery that made crafting work easier. more...
Galleries Listing
WNC Visual Arts Co-ops and Non-Profit
Groups
Plant the Arts: Grow North Carolina