BOUND By ALLYSON SEIFERT | Saturday, Mar 28, 7-11:30

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BOUND: AN IMMERSIVE FLORAL ART INSTALLATION & AN EVENING EXPERIENCE OF THE SENSES
from Current Resident Allyson Seifert

BOUND IS A POP UP ART EXHIBITION, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SATURDAY MARCH 28 FROM 7PM UNTIL LATE. BOUND WILL IMMERSE YOU INTO NEW SENSES. TASTE, TOUCH, SMELL, LISTEN. FEATURED ARTIST AND OWNER OF LOCAL CAFE AND FLORAL DESIGN STUDIO, ALLYSON SEIFERT, TAKES YOU INTO A NEW PLACE EXPLORING THE DICHOTOMY OF INDUSTRIAL METALS AND FABRICS BOUND TO FLORALS AND FOLIAGE.

BITES BY CHARIS GODDARD

WINE BY ETHAN RISINGER

MUSIC SET BY DJ BLOOD CHAMBER

PAY WHAT YOU WISH $15 – $30 SUGGESTED DONATION

PLEASE RSVP AHEAD OF TIME

Emma Ensley Reading | Thursday, March 19 at 7PM

Our current resident Emma Ensley will be hosting a reading on Thursday, 3/19, where she and eight other readers will share work related to Dante’s 9 circles of hell 🔥 Come out at 7pm and hear what Emma has been working on + much more 😊 Emma will read from her novel in progress, and other readers will  pull from a variety of sources and genres. We hope to see you!

J Seger “Duets” Album Release Show Fundraiser

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Join us at our new home at 2 Westwood Place for a fundraiser and album release show of “Duets” by J Seger.

Get your tickets here!

We’ll be hosting this show in our raw future event space at 2 Westwood, just before construction begins. We’re currently fundraising to support both our ongoing work and our exciting expansion at 2 Westwood. All proceeds from this event will support these efforts.

The album “Duets” is a 3-song collaboration between J Seger + Larkin Farrar, Alison Antaramian, Emily Easterly. The show will see the group presenting the 3 songs from the album, as well as songs from the vocalist’s back catalog.

The album “Duets” is a 3-song collaboration between J Seger + Larkin Farrar, Alison Antaramian, Emily Easterly. 

From J:

“I wanted to do something different vocally, so I asked Larkin, Alison, and Emily if they would listen to some demo sketches, and if inspired, to work out some vocal arrangements – I only loosely had the idea to use other vocalists and maybe explore something softer and well-crafted. There are no actual duets, it’s really just a theme of working together (hence the quotations). They each wrote beautiful melodies, we worked out the structure of the songs a bit, and then that evolved into them composing lyrics as well. I wanted to keep the production very simple and minimal, Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun helped realize that, and brought in a few friends for tracking – Jack Victor (drums), Dave Hartley (bass), Clay White (horns), Mike Johnson (pedal steel). Given the approach, everyone was very instrumental in pushing the songs to where they ended up. Everything just kinda worked and we were careful to hold a core vibe throughout the whole thing.”

Brett Naucke Show | Jan 17, 7PM

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Join us on 1/17 for a record release show with Brett Naucke for his new record Ground Fault Matinee.

This was released in November and immediately sold out so they ran a second pressing 🫠. This is the first / last time Brett will be playing this material in Asheville.

Also Playing:
Shane Justice Mccord
and Ashley Paul

Two acts, 7pm start time, $5, drinks

Hope to see you Saturday!

 

Flyer art by @wall_isenogle

Julianna Chioma | Nov 18 – Dec 16

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We are excited to welcome Julianna Chioma to the residency! Throughout the course of her residency Julianna will be working on a series of work entitled Rage Bait, including both abstract and figurative paintings, and if time permits an installation as well as a movement based performance.

 

Rage Bait is a multidisciplinary project exploring the psychological and emotional landscapes of Black womanhood as both symbol and icon. Drawing inspiration from body horror, Nigerian folklore, and the aesthetics of online outrage culture, the work examines how the Black female body is consumed, distorted, and mythologized across media and imagination. Through mixed media paintings, installation, and performance, Rage Bait, aspires to reclaim the spectacle of rage, reframing it as a site of agency, multiplicity, and pleasure.

 

Save the Date for: 

Rage Bait
December 14th, 6-9 PM
a presentation showcasing latest works by Julianna Chioma
with live performances from:
Designer
Nina Gi
+ DJ set by Boys Camp

 

 

Artist Statement:
My work explores the psychological and emotional terrain of Black womanhood—an experience that is often mythologized, feared, and misunderstood. Through painting, textiles, ceramics, and performance, I construct hybrid mythologies where innocence and unease coexist. Drawing from Nigerian folklore, body horror, and the language of cartoons, I create figures that feel both playful and unsettling. Their stitched and layered surfaces become metaphors for visibility, vulnerability, and reclamation. I am interested in how joy and pain can inhabit the same image, how tenderness can emerge from dissonance. At its core, my practice is about autonomy and multiplicity. I seek to create spaces where the Black female body exists beyond the spectacle—where it can rest, transform, and simply exist.

 

Open House: Ephemera House | November 15th 7-10 PM

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Artists Meg Mulhearn and David Lynch have envisioned a project where they bring the coast to the mountains. Many things today are experienced through a screen or grid, whether by social media or video, and they will use the idea of a grid or frame as a component in their work at Lamplight.

 

“Our recent experiments with printing, painting, projection, and sound have inspired an imagined realm with both terrestrial and oceanic elements. As the mountains speak of materialism, solidity, and proximity to the heavens themselves, the ocean and wetlands evoke a different type of depth and the power of oceanic circulation which regulates life on earth. Our hope is that the experience will facilitate deep reflection.”

 

Join us this Weekend:
Open House: Ephemera House
with Meg Mulhearn & David Lynch
Saturday, Nov 15th
7-10 PM

 

artist statement:
All creations are ephemeral and reflect the natural life cycle of bloom, decay, transformation, and absorption into new works of art. We are interdisciplinary artists and musicians, and our collection across forms, called Ephemera House, is a very human and joyously un-optimized attempt to acknowledge the past, present, and future of our creative lives in a series of moments.

Croctober Fest! 10/24 from 5-9 PM

At long last Croctober Fest is here! Rescheduled from last October,  this event will feature a playful series of silly Croc-inspired art + music from Corpse Dust and Busted Chops.

Each piece celebrates the iconic shoe with humor and charm, guaranteed to spark laughter and smiles. Lighthearted, quirky, and a little absurd—this collection is all about joy, fun, and creative Croc appreciation. We hope to see you on Friday!

 

The Moon Talkers Exhibition | Saturday, 9/20, 1-4PM

Saturday, September 20th, 1-4pm

Join us for an afternoon viewing of photographs taken by Jade Aster throughout the course of their residency!

Our current artist-in-residence, Experimental instant film photographer, Jade Aster, blends art and astronomy under the moniker, The Moon Talkers. Throughout their residency, Jade has been using instant film cameras (Polaroid and Instax) and a telescope to capture lunar and solar details on small pieces of instant film. As the moon cycled through its lunar month, they photographed each phase to show the changes in crater visibility and dark plains of the surface. Now, nearing the end of the residency, they will piece together the individual photographs side by side to create a larger mosaic of the lunar month.

We hope to see you this weekend!

Fundraising Gala at Drop of Sun

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Join us for Lamplight’s second annual FUNDRAISING GALA hosted at Drop of Sun Studios! We want to gather with our community, dress up (sequins encouraged!), have a fun night, share some food and drink, and, of course, raise some money to benefit our Annual Fundraiser.

Your ticket to this event includes:

• Scrumptious hors d’oeuvres

• An open bar with cocktails, beer, and wine

• Karaoke with the best sound system in town

• A photo booth decorated by SWANNATOPIA

• A raffle full of incredible prizes from our sponsors

Don’t hesitate, tickets will go fast! We look forward to good food, good drink, and good tunes, all in the name of the Asheville arts community. We’ll see you there!

 

This event is sponsored by our friends at:

Garden Party  |  Everyday Oil  |  Harvest Records |  Greenhouse  |  Burial Beer  |  Visuals Wine  |  Knook Ceramics | Bagatelle Books  |  Character Study  |  Rowan Coffee  |  Haunt  |  Alexis Dunn Astrology  |  Kevin Rumley  |  Emily Easterly  |  Asheville Yards  |  N&W Cleaning  |  Alexis Dunn Astrology  |  Shared Language  |  Clad  |  Sauna House  |  Blind Tiger  |  AVL Clay  |  Leo’s  |  The Admiral

Martha Skinner | Community Making Sessions

At Lamplight AVL, Martha will be weaving herself into a drawing within a drawing of drawings – a durational performance in collaboration with light, space, and the visitors to the space as a series of participatory performances.

CoCocoon will be created with the participation of the community — and you’re all invited! Twice this month, Martha will open her creative space at Lamplight for collective knotting and weaving. Together, we will turn limp linear material into form and space: creating expressive explorations as varied as each of us. These gestures will become spatial notations that Martha will weave into a larger, inhabitable piece. The final work will grow and transform throughout the residency.

 

Join us for two Community Making Sessions:
THURSDAY, JULY 17 | 6:00-8:00 PM
Ronald Knight and Chris Aluka Berry will play the NAFlute and handpan while we weave and create together.

THURSDAY, JULY 24 | 6:00-8:00  PM
Chris Aluka Berry will play the NAFlute while we weave and create together.

Closing event on July 27th | 6:00-8:00  PM

Linda singing until 7pm