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A Location for Craft

Our location near Asheville, a city with enormous creative and artistic energy, has led to an integration of craft throughout the Warren Wilson experience. Through our partnership with Asheville’s Center for Craft Creativity & Design (CCCD), you will have opportunities to engage with some of the country’s craft leaders, deepening your own knowledge and experience. And many of our craft students develop their sense of entrepreneurship by selling their work in downtown Asheville, a hotbed of creative craftspeople.

但不要低估了我们的校园对你事业的影响。我们的纤维艺术团队在校园里种植了一个染色花园，用羊毛制成纱线。我们的林业团队与我们的铁匠团队合作，从我们600英亩的森林中可持续地生产木炭。我们的铁匠团队的伪造作品经常突出校园的自然美景。

Craft Crews

You’ll take advantage of our rich location, both on and off campus, to study and create craft in a purposeful, directed way. Coursework will be enhanced through your work on one of our Craft Crews:

Graduate Studies in Craft

In Summer 2018, Warren Wilson launched the inauguralMA in Critical Craft Studies, a low-residency program of Warren Wilson College and the first program of its kind in the U.S. Undergraduate students interested in advanced work in craft may continue on to the masters program.

Explore Classes in This Program

ART 159

Printmaking on Fabric

This course is an introductory survey of the printmaking processes of relief, intaglio, and silkscreen printing. You’ll learn the skills needed to create printable surfaces, discuss aesthetic considerations, and learn the
cultural and historical use of printmaking on fabric.

ART 104

Introduction to Handbuilding

本工作室课程的重点是使用手工建造技术的雕塑和容器概念，强调建筑技能的发展和对形式、表面和烧制可能性的理解。

ART 208

造纸二世

This studio course emphasizes gaining control over formation, surface, weight, color, and consistency of batches. You’ll also explore advanced processes, including hand beating, watermarks, shaped deckles, and lamination.

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Meet Our Faculty

我特别喜欢在Warren Wilson教书，因为它独特地融合了严谨、尊重和鼓励，我们的学生珍惜他们成为我们社区一份子的机会。

Leah Leitson, M.F.A
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Leah Leitson
Leah Leitson, M.F.A

Hands-on, All-in

woven fabric
Fiber Arts Crew
Weave
From Art to Craft
$2.1 million turns art into craft
Empty Bowls
Handmade bowls contribute to fundraiser for food security
dyes
The Dye Garden
Crafting from our campus landscape
blacksmithing
The Blacksmith Crew
Bending metal
Fieldwork Profile

Craft Talk

In 2013, Warren Wilson College was awarded a three-year grant from the Windgate Foundation in support of the continued renaissance of craft on campus. Through the Windgate grant the craft-oriented work crews, including blacksmithing and fiber arts, have hosted a number of talented visiting artists. Working together, the crews and artists have designed, built and installed artworks on campus.

We also launched a Craft Talk Series, where regional artists shared their inspirations, techniques and lessons learned as professional makers and business owners. The Craft Talk Series provides the campus with an opportunity to interact with local makers. The Series emphasizes the presenter’s body of work, where they studied and worked, and the entrepreneurial lessons they have learned as a small business owner.

(Photo: work by Jess Self ’14)

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