Upcoming Events
The Craft Center presents two annual events for the entire family to enjoy! Celebration of Craft in the spring and Holiday Festival in the fall.
Exhibitions
The Appalachian Center for Craft hosts multiple exhibitions annually featuring functional and sculptural works of traditional and contemporary fine craft and mixed media by international, national and regional artists including artists from the Appalachian Center for Craft.
Kevin Vanek, Memento Mori: The American Way
December 8, 2025 – February 4, 2026, Dogwood Gallery
My current work gives attention to the unheard voices across the world, screaming
for aid and assistance to live their lives. As our world continues down a path of
self-destruction, we face greater disasters that shake the foundation of our existence.
From planetary destruction to local community failings, humankind continues down a
destructive path. The negative effects of anthropogenic world events are felt most
by those underprivileged and unheard populations. BIPOC, indigenous, poor, disabled,
queer, and neuro-atypical populations take the brunt of these world/community destroying
issues. These same marginalized populations are historically given no voice in the
discussion of how to mitigate these effects. I believe it is my job as an Artist,
and the goal of my work to expose and challenge this flawed system. To bring into
the light the issues that are being consistently ignored.
Millian Giang Pham, Subtle Vision
December 12, 2025 – February 15, 2026, Lakeview Gallery
After trampling in the muddy rice fields of rural Vietnam then learning to read product labels in supermarket aisles in the United States, Millian Pham received her BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. She further disappointed her family by doubling-down on her passion with an MFA in sculpture from the University of Florida. Pham uses her art practice to dismantle social and cultural expectations through the mediums of painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, and installation. Her visual research has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Canada, Pakistan, Korea, and across the United States. Pham was an artist-in-resident for the I-Park Artist Enclave, the Hambidge Art Center, ACRE, Santa Fe Art Institute, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Connect International Residency, and Pollinator Coop. She is currently the Studio Art Foundations Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Art at Auburn University in Alabama, where she keeps her studio practice.
Jeff Repko, Echoes of Industry
December 13, 2025 – February 16, 2026, Joe L. Evins Gallery
Echoes of Industry reflects my ongoing interest in how industrial structures, labor, and memory persist long after the machinery has stopped. Growing up in Pittsburgh, I inherited a landscape defined not only by steel and fabrication, but by the psychological residue of production. The ways infrastructure shape identity, expectation, and even the body itself continue to resonate in my work. This exhibition brings together sculptures from my Echoes and Reverberations series alongside recent paintings, creating a dialogue between material, and historical references.
Elaine Quave, Remnants of Existence
February 19 - April 19, 2026
Elaine Quave currently teaches Ceramics and Drawing at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She received a BFA in crafts from University of the Arts and then earned her MFA in ceramics at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2009. In addition to experience as a 3-D and ceramics instructor at Tyler, SCGSAH, and the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, SC, Mrs. Quave has also assisted for workshops at North Carolina’s Penland School of Craft and Pilchuck School of Glass in Washington. She is the 2015 and 2023 recipient of the Regina Brown Teacher Development Award through the National K12 Ceramic Exhibition. Mrs. Quave's work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Baltimore Clayworks, the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and the Lee Gallery of Clemson University.
A.I.R. Showcase, Unyielding
Alexandra Mavrikis, Jasmine Best, Talia Tax, Kayla Sanford, Jim Wysolmierski, Andy Foster
February 15 - March 29, 2026
SAC&D Juried Student Exhibition
April 1 - May 3, 2026
Capstone Exhibition
April 23 - May 5, 2026
Graduating Senior Thesis Exhibitions
April 24 - May 10
Artists featured in the Appalachian Center for Craft's exhibition program are selected through a jurying process during an annual call for proposals.