Lamplight AVL Partners with Weathervane Music for Fiscal Sponsorship

Lamplight AVL has teamed up with a fiscal sponsor!

While we work to complete our nonprofit status, we feel so lucky to have partnered with Weathervane Music, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance independent art and music and the communities that surround them.

Weathervane builds community through the practice of supporting, engaging with, and creating music through world renowned series like Shaking Through and The Recorders Club. Weathervane’s focus on community building, practice of lifting up emerging artists, and collaboration with Miner Street Recording studios all make them the perfect fit for Lamplight AVL. Their expertise and insight has been invaluable to us as we sculpt our mission and chart our path forward

 

Lamplight AVL Announces First Program: The Residency at 821

In the spring of 2022, Lamplight AVL launched its first program, The Residency at 821. This program allows local and visiting artists of any discipline to live in the residency space and create new work for periods of up to 28 days. To start, the artists’ use of the space is fully funded by donor contributions, though eventually Lamplight AVL aims to also provide a stipend to cover their living expenses as well. 

During their stay, artists in residence may create whatever they wish. The only requirement is that all artists share their work publicly in some form during their stay. These public showings, which have included sound and video installations, musical performances, classes, demonstrations, painting shows, puppet shows, and more, have already drawn wide attendance in Asheville. 

The residency space is simple in nature, but true to Lamplight AVL’s ethos, it is comfortable, warm and welcoming, with an accommodating kitchenette and full bathroom. It is in the same building as Adam and Emily’s recording studio, Drop of Sun Studios, though for the sake of the artist residents it is totally separate from it as well. 

Among other things, Lamplight AVL is truly filling a gap in public artistic gatherings that arose after many local art spaces closed during the pandemic.  Learn more about the residency here.