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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…

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The Actor’s Center of Asheville | June 2025

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The Actors Center of Asheville (TACA) will be spending the month of June, 2025 at Lamplight AVL. TACA’s black box theatre & studio were lost in Hurricane Helene. As a result, they have been moving around since the flood and will be spending…

Martha Skinner | July 2025

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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…

Jade Aster / The Moon Talkers | August 27 – September 24 2025

Upcoming Residents

Jade Aster is the creator of The Moon Talkers, an instant astrophotography and telescope pop-up. You can often find them in their front yard, sharing views of Saturn, Jupiter, and the rest of the sky with neighbors passing by. Two years ago…

Croctober with Dan and Joey | October 2025

Upcoming Residents

We're thrilled to announce that these artists have been rescheduled to October of 2025, after being unable to come into the residency in October 2024 due to Hurricane Helene. Born and raised in the picturesque land of Asheville, North Carolina,…

Julianna Chioma | November 18 – December 16 2025

Upcoming Residents

Julianna Chioma is a Nigerian-American emerging artist working out of Asheville, NC. Through the interdisciplinary gestures of painting,ceramics, textiles, and installation her work explores myth and narrative surrounding themes of sex, power,…

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