Community Driven

Community Driven
nonprofit for the arts

Lamplight AVL hosts residency programs that provide artists of all genres with space, time, and resources, so they can create innovative work to share with our community.
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Current Resident
Nava Lubelski | May 2025

During her residency, Nava will be working on a large-scale immersive environment constructed of the delicate details associated with traditional folk handcrafts. Using needlework in expressive, chaotic and destructive ways has long been a signature in her work and with this project her approach is to challenge the viewer to find beauty in the breakdown, seeing tangles and snarls as intricate lace, and allowing the seductive and satisfying qualities of embroidery to be used in service of memorializing stains and other random marks.

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Program Three
Recover, Remain, Thrive

Since the day after Hurricane Helene, Lamplight has been working to support artists in our region impacted by the storm.

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Call for Artists
Residency Applications Are Open

We welcome artists in all disciplines. We are particularly interested in art that is experimental, inter-disciplinary, and unconventional. We are currently accepting applications for our 2026 programming, and we will make final selections for our 2026 calendar year in August.

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Upcoming Resident
The Actors Center of Asheville | June 2025

For the month of June, The Actors Center of Asheville will offer classes, workshops, concerts, improv, private coaching, audition taping and so much more!

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Upcoming Resident
Martha Skinner | July 2025

Martha Skinner creates drawings that are spaces and performances –playfully subverting and transforming issues through works emerging as celebrations of life. At Lamplight she’ll be weaving herself into a drawing within a drawing of drawings –a durational performance in collaboration with light, space and the visitors to the sliver of space as a series of participatory performances.

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