Join us on Saturday, January 13th, as Sarah Louise hosts an intimate group singing event that invites in herbal allies to sing with us through a tea party. Doors open at 3:30, and the event begins at 4:00 (at which point the doors will be closed to the public). The event is expected to conclude by 7pm.

After sipping your tea, sit back for a brief sound bath and guided visualization that will prepare us to make sounds for connecting with each other and the Earth. Whether it is laughter, tears, wild sound-making or beautiful harmony singing, all expression is possible in this caring space and no musical experience is necessary. The Earth delights in all of our expression! Suggested donation of $5-$50.

Join us as Swannatopia opens the doors on their latest installation, Time Is Fake! On Saturday December 20, from 3-6, there will be a Silent Auction, tea, puzzles, dj relaxing lady, and info about the next experimental art club. Come on by!!

Listen in! Click HERE to listen to the full show on the archives from December 16, or scroll down to “Playlists” for a scrollable version of the show!

Swannatopia, our current artists in residence, have partnered with 103.3 Asheville fm this month! Bill and Jess from 103.3 captured live audio from their Opening Extravaganza and paired it with a call-in hotline called Time is Fake. It aired on December 16 on Bill’s Show, By All Means Necessary. The show features audio from the full Swannatopia show, including Pheribee’s live-scored Cakewalk, MAD’s live-scored Puppet Show, Hotline 123, Leeann Pepper’s sound bath, and tracks from the recent release from the New Psychoactives!

Swannatopia is back for another Extravaganza!!! Join us at 821 Haywood Road for their Opening Event!

4:00 Duck duck Cakewalk by Experimental Art Club, Live Scored by Pheribee – Bring a cake to win a cake!

5:17 Sunset Surprise Solar Return Puppet show by MAD, live scored by the nine comets orchestra

6:00 New Psychoactives Bug Mall Soundtrack Music and Video Premier by Peter Speer and Swannatopia

7:00 Blacklight Flock Party by DJ Madbog

8:30 Swan Soundscape Premiere by Leeann Peppers

 

Join us on Saturday, December 2, from 6-9 pm, as current artist in residence Coco Villa shares their work in a performance video installation!

To make it even sweeter, there will also freshly spun cotton Candy available by Abbie! @auwbe

Choreomania is a video performance installation. It is a compilation of movement studies candidly documented between 2019 and 2023. This footage follows Coco Villa’s daily solitary movement practice with intermissions of Villa dancing with friends, collaborators, and behind the scenes of projects, performances, and rehearsals.

 

Join us at 821 Haywood Rd, as Tara Foley and Alex Theodoropulos, the husband and wife team known as Spyrodon, share a musical, fabric, and visuals performance! These two have come down from New York to create a new round of work as our artists-in-residence, and we can’t wait to see what they create for this show!

 

Come and experience the Divine Coziness! Winter approaches, the nights are getting longer, and Lindsay Mercer is preparing for their annual hibernation. Inside the studio is a cave sewn from old blankets and oiled paper. Come rest and take in the quiet.
Visitors are welcome to enter and touch the work during open studio time.
Open Studio Hours:
Saturday October 14th 7-9 pm
Sunday October 15th 7-9 pm
Tuesday October 17th 7-9 m
Wednesday October 18th 7-9 pm
Friday October 20th 7-9 pm
Saturday October 21st 7-9 pm

Our current resident, Lindsay Mercer, is hard at work building their new show in the residency. They will be talking to Jess Speer of our beloved local radio station, 103.3 Asheville fm, about her work, on October 11 from 1 til 2 pm. Listen in to hear more about their upcoming show!

Lindsay Mercer sews, prints, and builds small quiet homes. Fabric safekept by friends and reclaimed from dumpsters and mud puddles becomes the walls and windowsills that frame delicate broken glass and greased paper windows. Glass is broken, but mended as well as needle and thread can manage. Paper is toughened by drenching it in grease until the opaque becomes a murky translucent glow. They build homes of empathy, both fragile and resilient.

Dedicated to the art of oral histories and home building, Lindsay is in the continual process of learning what it means to be a country queer in the world today.

 

Join us at 821 Haywood Road as artist-in-residence Katt Naz hosts open studio hours all week to share her latest works!

And as we celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, Arepas Venezolanas made by the artist’s mom Araceli (@aras_latinfood) will be sold throughout the week, first come first served! 

This show is about the journey of figuring out how to embody our truest form. Life tests us through good and horrible experiences that show us the truth about who we are and what we want. Being a human is one hell of a ride and when you embrace your truest self, that’s when the magic begins.

Society will continue to mold us into copies of each other but the question is, do you want to be like everyone else? Or do you want to be who you were meant to be and kick it up a notch? Life is much more fun when you make your own rules.

The show contains have a mixture of mediums: acrylic and mixed media paintings, wire sculptures, merch (and maybe a projection).

Join us at the opening reception as artist Katt Naz returns to share her latest works! Opening Reception will be Saturday September 23, 6:30-9:30; additional viewings 9/22-9/29 1pm-6pm. And as we celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, Arepas Venezolanas made by the artist’s mom Araceli (@aras_latinfood) will be sold throughout the week, first come first served! 

This show is about the journey of figuring out how to embody our truest form. Life tests us through good and horrible experiences that show us the truth about who we are and what we want. Being a human is one hell of a ride and when you embrace your truest self, that’s when the magic begins. 

Society will continue to mold us into copies of each other but the question is, do you want to be like everyone else? Or do you want to be who you were meant to be and kick it up a notch? Life is much more fun when you make your own rules.

The show contains have a mixture of mediums: acrylic and mixed media paintings, wire sculptures, merch (and maybe a projection).