UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, located near Hendersonville, North Carolina, houses a gallery that includes work of regional and national craft artists in changing exhibitions throughout the year.  Regular talks relating to the exhibits are scheduled in the adjacent Kellogg Conference Center building which also provides space for community, educational, and corporate meetings and retreats.  

In addition to the gallery exhibitions, the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design has created the Rudnick Public Art and Nature Trail on the fifty acres surrounding the Center.  Popular public art on the trail includes "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. 

Visitors to the Center often bring a picnic lunch for tables on the grounds, visit the gallery exhibit, and walk the one-mile Rudnick Public Art and Nature Trail. 

An inter-institutional center for the University of North Carolina, the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design does not offer classes but does support craft and design research through grants for research that will advance craft and design in academia and the curatorial world.

Hours of Operation

The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 1-5 pm, year-round, except for major holidays.

The Rudnick Public Art and Nature Trail is open daily as follows:
- from the main entrance on Broyles: Monday –Saturday, 8 am - 5pm
- from the South Rugby parking entrance: daily

Admission Fees

Admission is free.

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).

UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
1181 Broyles Road
Hendersonville, NC 28791
(828) 890-2050
www.craftcreativitydesign.org