Asheville Mural Project (AMP)
The Asheville Mural Project, a project of Arts2People, exists to beautify and diversify Asheville's urban landscape, providing artists and local community members with the opportunity to design and implement their own public art. We believe that murals enhance quality of life and create artful metropolitan experience through the transformation of conventional architecture. Our murals are both the testimony and celebration of a lively local arts culture. LEARN MORE ABOUT AMP
Lexington Avenue Arts & Fun Festival (LAAFF)
Once a year we shut down Lexington Ave in downtown Asheville for an all day all local, all original street fair. This jam-packed day is filled with wild street performers, unique artwork, and a wide variety of music and just about everyone who wants to have some fun and celebrate in the streets of Asheville. Art2People has been presenting LAAFF for 6 years with the support of the Asheville Community. We are always looking for more creative help into our events and other programs. Visit www.arts2people.org for more information about Arts 2 People's educational and outreach programs as well as the Asheville Mural Project, two benefiting programs that LAAFF helps to support. LEARN MORE ABOUT LAAFF
Faces of Asheville
In 2005 Jen Bowen created a website called ‘Faces of Asheville’ that initially started as street photography, and then developed into the full-fledge formal photo-documentary project that is currenty in process. In July 2007 Jen invited the entire Asheville community to come have their portrait taken in her home-studio; over 100 sundry individuals decided to participate. The only requirement was that subjects come in any attire so long as it was honest and they were comfortable, and she requested that everyone bring something with them that they could identify with their personality. LEARN MORE ABOUT FACES OF ASHEVILLE
Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program
The Pritchard Park Committee, recently disbanded, was a citizen task force convened by the City of Asheville to look at a variety of issues related to Pritchard Park. The Cultural Arts Program came into being after the committee submitted its report to City Council. The committee’s report cited best practices for parks with similar issues in other cities, including arts programs such as this one, and noted the great success enjoyed by other cities upon implementation of similar programs. Members of the Pritchard Park Committee have recommitted to the stewardship of the park through a Pritchard Park conservancy group, which will oversee the Cultural Arts Program, in coordination with the City, and will bring new programs to the park in the future. LEARN MORE ABOUT PRITCHARD PARK CULTURAL ARTS PROGRAM
Moving Women
Founded in 2007, Moving Women is a dance performance ensemble that honors and invites the diverse perspectives offered by cross-genre collaboration. Core members challenge themselves by working with other dancers, visual artists, musicians, poets, actors, and performance artists to create original works. LEARN MORE ABOUT MOVING WOMEN
Responsive Education Accessing Creativity for Healing (REACH)
Mission: to bring the healing power of arts to those in need. The REACH Program recognizes that arts education is an essential element to a healthy community. REACH OUT provides an opportunity for those in crisis to access the amazing restorative powers of the creative experience. Through classes and workshops taught by area arts professionals and educators, REACH provides a venue for area social service organizations to expand programming for those they serve, utilizing the therapeutic possibilities of the arts. REACH BEYOND provides professional support programming and resources to benefit the careers of local working artists. REACH IN gives anyone the opportunity to explore creativity and get in touch with the artist within. LEARN MORE ABOUT REACH
