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Craft Across the Curriculum
The Craft Across the Curriculum program is a collaborative effort that brings teachers and local craft artists together in schools and communities.
Through hands-on workshops, residencies, mentoring, and performances the program transforms the region's craft heritage into valuable educational tools for K-12 students. Artists, teachers, and students benefit from the program's ability to use craft as a tool to not only educate, but build confidence, creative expression, cultural enrichment and a greater sense of community.
To help craft artists learn how to incorporate craft into the classroom, Craft Across the Curriculum hosts workshops that give the artists another vehicle for sharing their craft knowledge and artistic skills, while at the same time provides them job opportunities as educators. To date, over 300 participants have attended over 30 workshops and created nearly 100 lesson plans. This work has impacted over 20,000 students, in 11 schools in 5 counties in Western North Carolina.
The current partner schools participating in the program are listed.
Craft Across the Curriculum: Sample Lesson Plans
- Archived database of Lesson Plans - This feature is in development.
Partner Support
- The North Carolina Glaxo Smith Kline Foundation
- The North Carolina Arts Council
- The Windgate Foundation
- And hundreds of students, schools and craft educators
Staff Contact
- Norma Bradley, Director of Education