Mike Marcus
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
Assistant Director
Asheville, North Carolina Area
I'm excited to be attending the Hometown Summit and look forward to connecting with other folks interested in the intersection of arts, placemaking, the maker movement, and entrepreneurship. I'm passionate about cultivating vibrant communities and robust creative economies.
As Assistant Director of Creative Placemaking & Property Development at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design. I'm responsible for leading the organization’s property development initiative, The Hive AVL – a creative campus for making, learning and enterprise, and its related programmatic element, the Center for Creative Entrepreneurship. The project includes multiple University partners and economic development organizations.
I'm also an event organizer for CreativeMornings Asheville and sit on the board of the Asheville Design Center.