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Center for Craft, Creativity and Design

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, a center of the University of North Carolina, advances the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, scholarship and professional development. 

The Center is located near Hendersonville, and houses a gallery that includes work of regional and national craft artists in changing exhibitions throughout the year. 

Public Art and Nature Trail

It is surrounded by fifty acres that includes the Rudnick Public Art and Nature Trail which features popular public art including "Fiddleheads"—six forms that appear as ferns opening in the spring, magnified to over ten feet high—and "Rhododendron Bell," an earth work of stones with a bell in a cavern underneath that can be rung from the top. 

The Center also manages the adjacent Kellogg Conference Center that provides space for community, educational, and corporate meetings and retreats,

The Center does not offer classes but does support scholarly research in
craft with the Craft Research Fund grant and the ongoing development of
instructional and teaching resource materials to complement the Makers
textbook.  The Center also provides professional development for both emerging craft artists and curators with the annual Windgate Fellowship and the Windgate Museum Internship programs.

Hours of Operation

The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 - 5 pm.
The Rudnick Public Art and Nature Trail is always open from the South Rugby parking entrance.

Admission Fees

Admission is free.

Hours of operation and fees are subject to change. Contact directly for most current information.

Location

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is located five miles west of Main Street in Hendersonville, and ten miles south of the Asheville Regional Airport. Directions can be found on the Center's website (listed below).

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
1181 Broyles Road
Hendersonville, NC 28791
(828) 890-2050