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UNC Asheville's Craft Campus will allow
students to take crafts to the next level, merging the best of arts
and crafts with sciences in a unique facility. When it opens, UNC Asheville's Craft Campus will be a leading center for
innovative craft curriculum and a model for green-building methods. In
April 2004, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved the
University's use of the former Buncombe County landfill site as the
future home of the Craft Campus. Methane from the capped landfill
will be the primary energy source on the 153-acre site, north of
Asheville on the French Broad River. Click here
to see a proposed schematic of the site.
In January 2006, an anonymous donor
brought the Craft Campus a step closer to reality thanks to a
$2
million grant for the design and construction of a wood
sculpture studio. The grant comes from an anonymous national
foundation that has a special interest in the modern craft movement.
The grant is the second and largest the UNC Asheville Foundation has
received for the Craft Campus.
In July 2007, Brent Skidmore was
named Director of the Craft Campus. Skidmore is an accomplished wood sculptor and
formerly an assistant professor at Kendall College of Art and Design
in Michigan.
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Student work by
Terrell Whitworth (Class of '05) |
UNC Asheville Craft Campus
118 Carmichael Hall
One University Heights, CPO 1625
Asheville, NC 28804
Brent Skidmore
Director
828/250-2390
bskidmor@unca.edu
Jordan Caswell
Program Assistant
828/250-2392
jcaswell@unca.edu
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