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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 May 2007, Mignon Durham assumed
the role of UNC Asheville's Assistant Vice Chancellor: Principal
Gifts. One of Durham's primary focuses will be securing the private
funds required to complete the design and construction of the Craft
Campus.
In July 2007, Brent Skidmore was
named Director of the Craft Campus and Jon Keenan was named
Associated Director. Skidmore is an accomplished wood sculptor and
formerly an assistant professor at Kendall College of Art and Design
in Michigan. Keenan is an accomplished ceramicist and former chair
of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer
College in New Hampshire. Keenan is also a 2005 recipient of a
Fulbright Fellowship.
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Student work by
Terrell Whitworth (Class of '05) |
UNC Asheville Craft Campus
One University Heights, CPO 1411
Asheville, NC 28804
Brent Skidmore
Director
Jon Keenan
Associate Director
Mignon Durham
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Development
Phone: 828/251-6807
E-mail: mdurham@unca.edu
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