The Residency at 821 is a space for emerging and established artists in all fields who are looking for a place away from their usual environment to create art and share it with the public.
Located on Haywood Road in West Asheville, NC, we offer residencies at no charge for up to 28 days at a time. We only have one artist in the space at a time, so residents can create freely however they wish.
Our goal is to foster an environment that allows each artist to reflect, create, and share.
Each resident offers some sort of community programming to share their work.
Lamplight AVL welcomes artists of all disciplines to The Residency at 821 for residencies of up to 28 days to create work and share it with our community.
The artists we host are not bound by any specific genre or discipline, but we are particularly interested in art that is experimental, contemporary, inter-disciplinary, unconventional, risk-taking, emerging, or non-market driven work. We are also very curious about an artist’s personal story as it relates to their work. As applicants create their proposals, we want to note that while we are open to public shows that incorporate some element of craft, we’ve found that work that seats itself firmly and exclusively in craft may better suited to the many wonderful crafts-focused institutions that Asheville offers.
All artists-in-residence are required to share their work publicly with our community at some point during their stay in the form of a show, performance, installation, workshop, class, or other pre-approved form. Artists are also responsible for co-promoting the show they create, through flyers, social media posts, radio interviews, etc.
