past artists in residence

A Call to Prayer is an immersive, participatory performance project that brings together embodied ritual and collaborative installation. Join our current artist-in-residence at Lamplight's Residency at 821 Haywood, Zaquia Salinas, alongside…

We are excited to welcome Zaquia Luisa Salinas to Lamplight’s Residency at 821 this spring! Throughout her time at the residency she will be working on A Call to Prayer: an immersive, participatory performance project that blends embodied…

We are excited to welcome Nate Northrup back into the residency this spring! During his time here this April, Nate will be creating a site specific body of work that includes interactive sculptural installations, a projection loop, sound, and…

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…

We are happy to welcome Emma Ensley to the residency this March! Emma published her debut short story collection in 2025, and during her time at the residency she will be working on a surreal dark comedy novel that follows a student named Fern…

We are excited to welcome Phantom Lamp Theatre Company to the Residency. Phantom Lamp Theatre Company is a bare bones theatre company committed to developing original work, creative collaboration, and taking risks. They strive to bring unique,…

We are excited to welcome back our friends at Swannatopia to the residency. They have spent several December's with us, and this year they return with: "Ribbon Time"!   Save the Date for: Swannatopia Presents: Ribbon Time Saturday,…

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…

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…

Experimental instant film photographer, Jade Aster, blends art and astronomy under the moniker, The Moon Talkers. Jade will be using instant film cameras (Polaroid and Instax) and a telescope to capture lunar and solar details on small pieces…

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…

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,…

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…

The storm disrupted so much, including our fall and winter schedule last year. This residency is rescheduled from last October, and we are pleased to present Croctober, curated by Brett Naucke. Croctober will feature a playful series of silly…

We’re thrilled to welcome Lyndsey Brummell as our Artist in Residence for the month of August. Lyndsey is a multidisciplinary artist working across weaving, music, and ceramics. Throughout the residency, she will be exploring the connections…

We are thrilled to welcome the Actors Center The Actors Center of Asheville (TACA) to Lamplight AVL for the month of June. TACA’s black box theatre & studio were lost in Hurricane Helene. As a result, they have been moving around since…

Through traditional batik techniques, I create pieces that merge precise geometric patterns with the organic nature of wax and dye. Coming from a multi-generational line of textile makers and learning alongside my mother, I've evolved these…

Join us as our current artist in residence, the amazing Nate Northrup, hosts an open studio to share his work! Saturday 1/25, from 1pm to 4pm. Stop on by!

Welcome back to our dear friends, Swannatopia! Join us at Swannatopia's Annual Holiday Light Show Eggstravaganza! Open Dec 21 2024 - Jan 5 2025 at Lamplight AVL - 821 Haywood Road Experimental Art Club does ChandeLURES! An ALIVE…

Artist's Statement: "My work explores the layered complexity of time, memory and perception, where  seemingly chaotic fragments coalesce into a larger, more harmonious whole, reflecting the process of accumulation - layers of information, emotions…

Zach Cooper is a Grammy award winning composer, producer and songwriter based in North Carolina. He has contributed to works by Leon Bridges, SZA, The Weeknd, Jazmine Sullivan, Jon Batiste, Moses Sumney, Billy Porter, and Helado Negro, among…

Carly Owens Weiss is an interdisciplinary artist based in Colorado. She received her BAD in Art + Design from North Carolina State University and studied crewelwork and goldwork hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework in the United…

Cecilia Moushey is a poet and artist. They grew up in Asheville and love exploring the intimate areas of life. They are currently working on a degree in Environmental Science, are mediocre at rock climbing, and will tell you all the best swimming…

Come by the residency this July! Meg Winnecour will run an open art studio for a month, a space in which she will make her work (acrylic nature portraits on panel, watercolor and dye explorations on paper, and free-stitched cyanotypes) in a…

We are so excited to welcome the Asheville-based illustrator Will Iselnogle as our artist in residence for late April and May! Will will be creating both visual art and installation work, and he needs you to love him.  He will host an opening…

Sarah Louise makes music to help people connect with each other and our wondrous planet. Her albums range from Appalachian folk songs, to solo 12-string guitar, to genre-bending electronic journeys that have been called “Mystical” by the…

Alex McWalters is a writer, musician and educator based in Asheville, North Carolina. He plays percussion for River Whyless, and is an adjunct professor of Creative Writing at UNC-Asheville. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson and…

Aliah Lavonne Tigh is the author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 chapbook with Tram Editions, with poems appearing in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry…

Starting March 11, our artists-in-residence are Candlewood Collective and the cast and crew of the play DOLORES, by Edward Allan Baker! We are so thrilled to have them in the space to rehearse and build their set; they'll put up their incredible…

Hailing originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lyle grew up in a household filled to the brim with music. The now Asheville-based songwriter’s carefully crafted melodies and poetry are imaginative and thought provoking as he explores themes…

Swannatopia returns to our space one year after their last full residency, and we are so thrilled to have them back! Swannatopia’s Experimental Art club will host their second annual holiday light and sound extravaganza at Lamplight AVL…

We are thrilled to announce that Coco Villa will be our artist in residency for the month of November 2023! Tightly wound to identity, Coco Villa leads a multidisciplinary art-research practice investigating relations between body and object.…

Spyrodon is a sound and visual project: a collaborative entity between husband-and-wife artist team Alex Theodoropulos and Tara Foley. Tara Foley is an artist, a maker of sounds, a museum educator, gallery worker and a sometimes curator. She…

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,…

Katerine Nazareth Viloria Monagas better known as Katt Naz was born in 1989 in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Miami Beach since she was two. She’s now become an emerging Visual Artist using her work to express emotion, self reflection, pride,…

Brett William Naucke (b. 1985) is an American experimental composer and visual artist from Chicago, IL currently based in Asheville, NC. His work has been consistently focused on marrying an ever-evolving practice of synthesis to visual and…

Christopher Hamilton is a musician and sound artist from Asheville, NC, fascinated and delighted by all things auditory. Recent work in sound design and sound sculpture has focused on unique spatial experiences of sonic information and unique…

Rachel Hanson has just announced her upcoming writing salon on July 29 at 4pm! Join us at 821 Haywood Road! Click here for more information. In her literary fiction Rachel Hanson explores, from an ecofeminist perspective, the trends in American…

Wyatt James Jackson Pottorff grew up in the middle of nowhere, (aka Deming), New Mexico. Art has always been a constant source of passion and relief for Wyatt, who spent his early years doodling, painting, climbing on roofs and exploring…

Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music…

This troupe of artists worked on a storytelling projects that they wanted to share. They created a series of “crankies,” which are boxes that hold a scroll of drawings or paintings that move across the “screen” to help tell their story.…

  PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY “I practice art as a sacred exploration into self, a path to go beyond the superficiality of today’s world. I try to remain in the space of freedom and questioning while making room for answers to form on…

Sarah McCoy is an Asheville, NC-based musician, composer, and producer. Pulling from her classical piano background, her love of R&B, and her fondness of orchestral and film scores, Sarah showcases an eclectic blur of genre lines in her…

founded in 2019, Swannatopia is both a physical studio and an interdisciplinary collaboration. Members make use of light, sound, water, glass, porcelain, terra cotta, live plants, projections, reflections, textiles, movement, video, screenprinting,…

Brett William Naucke (b. 1985) is an American experimental composer and visual artist from Chicago, IL currently based in Asheville, NC. His work has been consistently focused on marrying an ever-evolving practice of synthesis to visual and…

Katerine Nazareth Viloria Monagas better known as Katt Naz was born in 1989 in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Miami Beach since she was two. She's now become an emerging Visual Artist using her work to express emotion, self reflection,…

From September 19-21, Make Noise's fourth resident, Sarah Louise, will be making glorious sounds using a dual-Strega and dual-Shared System patch! Our friends at Make Noise Music are hosting a series of mini-residencies this month. They are…

From September 21-23, Make Noise's third resident, Sleep Number, will be using a patch that combines samples from the State Fair, Strega feedback and overdrive! Our friends at Make Noise Music are hosting a series of mini-residencies this month.…

From September 19-21, Make Noise's second resident, animator and visual artist Farewell Phoenix, will be using a patch that transcends time and space! Our friends at Make Noise Music are hosting a series of mini-residencies this month. They…

From September 12-15, Make Noise's first artist, Thom Nguyen will be making a glorious racket at 821 Haywood Rd! Our friends at Make Noise Music are hosting a series of mini-residencies this month. They are inviting a few favorite local artists…

The Make Noise Pop-Up at 821 included parties, a Pop-Up Store with demos, workshops, artist Mini-Residencies, and a month-long raffle benefiting REVOLVE and the Bob Moog Foundation! The artists Make Noise hosted for mini-residencies were…