Dian Magie, Executive Director of the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
Dian Magie became the second executive director of the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (CCCD) in 2000, arriving as construction began on the building in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The Center opened in April, 2001 with an exhibition and catalog, Celebrating Creativity in Western North Carolina, featuring the work of the 56 art department faculty from the three UNC campuses associated with this regional, inter-institutional center - Appalachian State University, Western Carolina University, and UNC Asheville.

Magie has followed the lead of a visionary policy and nonprofit board charged with advancing craft in academia and the curatorial worlds. In 2002 she organized the first annual North Carolina Craft Retreat, convening craft leaders from around the country in a "think-tank" approach. Initiatives were identified and flushed out in this and following retreats that became a charge for CCCD, thrusting the Center into national prominence to include:

• An undergraduate text and history 20th Century American Studio Craft researched and written by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf under the auspices of CCCD begun in 2004 and scheduled for publication in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press.
• The Craft Research Fund, begun in 2005, created an annual grant program supporting scholarly writing on U.S. studio craft
• The Windgate Fellowship Awards, a grant program Magie administers, awards ten $15,000 fellowships to graduating art/craft seniors nominated by 54 universities across the United States
• The Windgate Museum Internship Fellowships, partners CCCD with four museums nationally, to provide four $5,000 internships to work with museum craft collections and exhibitions

Magie moved to North Carolina in 2000 after 18 years as Executive Director of three local arts agencies: The Arts Council of Northwest Florida 1982-1985; Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff 1985-1988; Tucson-Pima Arts Council 1988-2000. She has authored numerous publications, including Creative Transportation Design (2005); Resource Development Handbook: Untapped Public Funding for the Arts (1998); Arts Programs that Revitalized a Downtown; Tucson, a Case Study (1993) and researched and developed the (1996-2004) web-resource for the National Endowment for the Arts Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities. With a B.A. in Humanities and an M.A. in American History, she has experience in traditional folk arts, all areas of contemporary studio craft, K-12 arts education, facility design and management, urban design and public art, organizational development, and grantmaking.

Katie Lee, Assistant Director of the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design

Katie Lee became the Assistant Director of CCCD in February 2008. She has experience as an art administrator, curator, and teacher. As Assistant Director and Curator at the College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art from 2005 to 2008, Katie helped to create a membership program and wrote grants in addition to overseeing all programming (exhibits, lectures, film series, board meetings, and the membership program). During this time she served as Adjunct Professor of the Museum Studies/Gallery Fundamentals course for the College of Charleston. Additionally, she has worked on projects with the City of Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs. Katie also represented the works of Eva Carter and William Halsey as Gallery Director of Eva Carter Gallery from 2003 to 2005.

As a curator, in 2004 she curated "Mapping Ports: Sullivan's Island, Goree Island, Portobelo, Havana and Seville," a mid-career retrospective exhibit of the artist Arturo Lindsay at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC. That same year she co-curated "Fresh Work" with Dr. Marian Mazzone, a juried exhibition of alumni artists from the College of Charleston. In 2005, she was the juror for Winthrop University's annual student exhibition and in 2007 she was the juror for the Blue Ride Arts Center in Seneca, SC. In 2007, she curated "Surface Tension: Multimedia Abstractions by Cindy Neuschwander and Hiroyuki Hamada" at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and most recently, she curated "Celebrating the Bringle Sisters: Clay & Textile Mentors" at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.

Katie has a B.A. in Art History from the College of Charleston with Departmental Honors and an Intercultural M.A. in Art History from Richmond, The American International University in London. Her thesis was titled "The Problem with Modernism: The Challenge of Bernard Leach's Life and Art."

Theresa M. "Terri" Gibson, Office Administrator for The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design and The Kellogg Center
Terri grew up in Southern California where she attended Whittier College as an Art History Major. Her love of far away places took her on a path to Travel and Tourism where she spent eleven years working as a Travel Professional in North Carolina and Ohio.

She has recently returned to North Carolina after spending six years in Sonoma County California where she was an Office Manager for Kendall Jackson Wine Estates and Office Administrator for Jewish Family & Children Services in Santa Rosa.

Terri and her husband of thirty years, Wayne, have raised two fantastic sons and are looking forward to eventually retiring in Hendersonville. Terri is a Fused Glass artist who has been exhibited in galleries in Sonoma County and she was recently approached to donate a piece of her work to the Mainstay Art Auction in Hendersonville. She is a member of the Hendersonville Chorale and an Area Volunteer with American Field Service, an International High School Exchange Program.

Recently Terri was hired as Office Administrator by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design - a Regional Center of the University of North Carolina. Living only steps away, she is please to be fulfilling a dream of someday working for this Internationally recognized leader in advancing craft and design.