The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (CCCD) has launched ENEWS to keep you current with all our programs, exhibits and events. ENEWS will be sent out monthly with most news linking to more lengthy information found on our website www.craftcreativitydesign.org. Announcements cards will still be mailed for upcoming exhibits and talks. If you are on our mailing list to receive an announcement card for exhibits and would prefer to receive the information through ENEWS, please let us know and it will save us a stamp!

The images above were taken at the Opening Reception November 10th following a talk by Banks Tully, faculty advisor for the 15 Appalachian State University (ASU) students who created this exhibition that totally transforms the CCCD gallery space. Their exhibit demonstrates the creativity employed in the process that all industrial designers experience as they conceptualize, sketch, render and fabricate their designs. The exhibit illustrates the journey that ideas take, as they move from the head to the hand, and from conception to eventual reality.

The Concept to Creation Exhibition reopens January 2-25, 2008 Mon-Sat, 1-5pm

Appalachian State University is one of the three University of North Carolina universities affiliated with the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design.

TRAC Studio Tours (www.toeriverarts.org) sponsored by the Toe River Arts Council, December 1-2 from 10am -5pm with over 100 artists and 12 galleries in Yancey and Mitchell Counties surrounding Penland School of Crafts - a study of the map and plotting your course is necessary for you can never see all.

Potters of Scenic 276 South, Holiday Open House, December 8 from 9am-5:30pm, December 9, noon -5:30pm, from Brevard south on 276, signs will be outside locations, to include Duck Pond Pottery, Mountain Forest Pottery, Mud Dabber's Pottery, and Judith Duff Pottery www.judithduff.com.

The Windgate Fellowship Award program was established to help encourage and advance the development of serious, innovative artists in the United States whose work is in some way related to, or informed by, the process, material, or idea of craft. The 64+ partner institutions across the country develop a careful selection process to identify two graduating seniors who best meet the following criteria:

Their work must demonstrate a balance of content and design and a mastery of materials
Their work must in some way be informed by craft process, materials, traditions and/or sensibilities
Successful applicants will demonstrate innovation and curiosity, be committed to growth of their own work, and show evidence of how their work might stimulate creative thinking or dialogue among other artists.

Universities have identified their nominees for the 2008 Windgate Fellowships and students have begun their online application process. 2008 Windgate Fellowship awards will be announced in the May ENEWS.

HandMade in America staff and dozens of volunteers collected data for the 1995 study, by Dr. Dave and Dr. Evans, of the Center for Business Research, Appalachian State University, that determined the total annual economic contribution of the craft industry in Western North Carolina to be $122 million! This was amazing at the time and important for the business world to recognize that the craft artisan in aggregate was significant entrepreneurial activity in the mountains. For an overview of this and other economic studies on craft in western North Carolina see www.craftcreativitydesign.org/community/

Twelve years after the first study it is very important to document the increased importance of craft to the economy of the region. The major effort of collecting data through surveys begins October 1, 2007 with a final report by Drs Dave, Evans and Stoddard in August, 2008. The following organizations and institutions are supporting this study and reaching out to all involved with the craft industry to provide the most thorough survey data for this update: UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, together with HandMade in America, Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Program, UNC Asheville Craft Campus, Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Penland School of Crafts The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, and many of the local arts agencies in the 25 counties of western North Carolina.

If you are one of the talented craft artisans in this region, you may receive more than one survey in the mail because of the number of organizations supporting this effort. Please fill out only ONE and give any extra to craft artists that may not have received a survey. You can also fill your artist survey out and return it electronically.

Makers: 20th Century American Studio Craft (working title)
At the first "Think-Tank" convened by CCCD in 2002, of craft faculty, museum director and curators, scholars and critics, the initiative ranked as most important to the advancement of the field was a history of American Craft in the twentieth Century. The journey toward making this a reality can be tracked on www.craftcreativitydesign.org/research/history.php. 20th Century American Studio Craft by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf is with the publisher, the University of North Carolina Press. Long awaited, the book, researched and written under the auspices of CCCD, will include 500+ images and also serve as an undergraduate text. The University of North Carolina Press is making craft history and criticism a focus of the Press.

Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Sock to High Art by Susan M. Strawn, has been released by Voyageur Press (www.voyageurpress.com) Knitter, writer and illustrator Susan Strawn has a Ph.D. in Textiles and Clothing from Iowa State University and teaches textile-related classes at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. The book celebrates the long history of knitting in American, as the first fully detailed, full-color, comprehensive history of knitting in America from colonial times to the present.

Cahiers m�tiers d'art* Craft Journal, is a nonprofit organization that encourages and publishes critical, historical and technical research on local and international craft. Membership includes a subscription to the Cahiers m�tiers d'art* Craft Journal published twice a year. Each issue presents essays from international researchers in both French and English; book and exhibition reviews; and profiles of craftspeople from around the world. (www.craftjournal.ca) Denis Longchamps, publisher and managing editor, is interested in critical, technical and historical research on craft from all regions of the world.

New in 2008! The Journal of Modern Craft, edited by Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK; Edward S. Cooke, Jr. Yale University, USA; Tanya Harrod, Royal College of Art, UK, is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It address all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production - whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings or other artefacts. Published three times a year in March, July and November - the first issue will be released in March 2008. To place an order/subscription visit www.bergpublishers.com and download order forms or email custerserv@turpin-distribution.com.

Deadline for submitting abstracts to International Craft Conference
Crafts: Crafticulation & Education Deadline for submitting abstracts - December 15, 2007 for this International Conference of Craft Science and Craft Education hosted by The University of Helsinki, Iceland next fall, September 24-26, 2008.
For more information www.helsinki.fi/kktl/english/news/index.htm

The 96th Annual Conference of the College Arts Association (CAA) will be held in Dallas-Fort Worth, February 20-23, 2008. CCCD is sponsoring a session entitled Enabling Creativity and Preserving Processes: Partnerships between Academia, Artists and Communities. Chaired by Jody Servon, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, the panel includes Marjorie Devon, Director of the Tamarind Institute, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico; Brent Skidmore, Director, Craft Campus, University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Dan Rockhill, University of Kansas. For all sessions or registration see conference.collegeart.org

CCCD is sponsoring a session at the annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Confluence: Innovation, Community, Environment held in Pittsburgh, March 19-22, 2008. The Session, Critically Speaking, will be held Thursday, March 20th, at 10am. Rob Pulleyn, WNC ceramic artist, publisher Lark Books 1980-2006, and CCCD board member will moderate the panel that includes Janet Koplos, Senior Editor Art in America and co-author of the upcoming history/text Makers: 20th Century American Studio Craft; Mark Shapiro, woodfire potter for 20 years is a frequent workshop leader and panelist, who recently curated "Containing History" a show of contemporary pots inspired by history at the Albany Institute in NY, and Josh DeWeese, studio potter, professor at Montana State University, former Direction of the Archie Bray, and originator of Jentel at the Bray, a residency for critical writing in ceramics.

The board and staff of the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design wish you a peaceful and joyful holiday season with friends and loved ones.

Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Robin Martindale, Professor of Sculpture
Eric Reichard, Professor of Technology
Jody Servon, Catherine Smith Gallery Coordinator, Arts Management Faculty
University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC
Mignon Durham, Assistant Chancellor of Development
Brent Skidmore, Craft Campus Director
Megan M. Wolfe, Ceramics Faculty
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Brenda Coats, Art History Faculty, Western Carolina University
Martin DeWitt, Founder and Director, Museum of Art, Western Carolina University
Richard Tichich, Chair, School of Art and Design, Western Carolina University

CCCD Nonprofit/Foundation Board, Western North Carolina
Ann Batchelder, independent curator, Asheville
Judith Duff, studio potter, Brevard
Catharine Ellis, Fiber Faculty, Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Program, Clyde
Ken Gaylord, Ken Gaylord Architects, AIA, Hendersonville
David Hutto, Dean, Technology and Development, Blue Ridge Community College, Hendersonville
Stoney Lamar, wood sculptor, Saluda
Ted Lappas, attorney, developer, Clyde
Jean McLaughlin, Director, Penland School of Crafts, Penland
Jenny Moore, Assistant Director, HandMade In America, Asheville
Rob Pulleyn, studio potter, developer of Marshall High Studios, Marshall

CCCD Staff
Dian Magie, Executive Director
Pending Announcement, Assistant Director
Terri Gibson, Office Administrator
Charles Lance, Grounds

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is an inter-institutional Center of the University of North Carolina.

The mission of the regional UNC Center is to support and advance craft, creativity and design in education and research, and, through community collaborations, to demonstrate ways that craft and design provide creative solutions to community issues. The mission of the nonprofit CCCD is to support the mission of the UNC center through funding, programs, and outreach to artists, craft organizations, schools in the community, region and nation.