Aimée Lauren Atelier

04/25/2024

04/25/2024

OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 1708
Pilot Artist Residency

1708 Gallery is pleased to announce a call for applications for its pilot Artist Residency Program. The pilot Artist Residency Program will be located on the second floor of 1708’s building at 319 W. Broad Street in Richmond’s downtown Arts District and will help 1708 further define the vision for its full artist residency program, which will expand the mission to empower and support diverse artists’ voices.

The pilot residencies will be free, and 1, 2 or 3 months in length running from September 2024 through August 2025.

1708 will provide a private live/work space, a $1000 monthly stipend, access to basic equipment and professional development opportunities.

While the application is open to all levels of experience, 1708 is especially interested in candidates with previous residency experience who can provide informed feedback to help shape the future of the program.

Additionally, the specific details and size of the space make the pilot residency especially well-suited for collectives and/or artists with families. Applications will be reviewed by a committee of artists.

Head to the link in bio to submit your application and learn more about 1708’s pilot Artist Residency!

04/25/2024

There is something deeply beautiful about the human heart and it’s capacity to not only love animals; but to honor and care for them.

Think about this, how we fail to take care of one another, how governments fail to protect the human beings they vow to represent: and still we as citizens still find ways to love, and support and protect that which is sacred.

Thank you to the staff Maymont for the vocations you followed and the precious creatures you protect and love.

04/12/2024

Jesse
Tonight
Each
Track
Is
For
You

04/12/2024

I would
Rather
Pull Weeds
Than
Kill
Bees

03/30/2024

This Saturday

3/30
10p-2a

At Dive & Sublevel
On Broad

Of herHouse Produductions & The Butter Co.
I Will be your beat keeper

TribalBreaksAcidDrumnBass




Nicholas DailyJérémy RomettiThe Butter Co.RadioRVA
RavidaMichael F. PichetteRyanElliott BurtonJason BoydBridget BossermanKelly LemonAnthony Nunie NunezJeffrey Nicholas DameXavier ReedJoshua CrenshawPaul BeyerTre SlushJennifer FunaiCelia HenlineAndrew RichardsonEric MayStoney JayHeather VanderPas
Stefan Von FoutsSteven WarrickStefanos Demetriadis
Kahlia KanatakisParker S GaloreBev RidgeOliver

03/20/2024

01/23/2024

Thank you to Andrew
For hosting me and sharing
A time bending 2 hours
from my early gigs at
Miami Music Week-Ultra-WMC
To last year in
Istanbul, Turkey

Such a lucky girl.

This episode of The Hacienda Show, recorded live on 91.1fm WTJU Charlottesville. We welcome a stable in the RVA scene DJ Aimee Lauren. With two magical sets to take you on a musical journey that you w

01/11/2024

Gabby, Gabby, Gabby

“My first end-of-life patient was a 97-year-old man. He had a much younger girlfriend; she was seventy-four. But they loved each other so much. Back when their spouses were still alive, the four of them had been great friends. They would double date together. And when their spouses passed away—the two of them became a thing. Every day she would come over for lunch. I’d always cook a little meal for them. I’d prepare the table; I’d lay out my little candles and my little flowers. As soon as she arrived I’d put on music and dim the lights, then I’d leave the room and go wait in the bedroom. They would cuddle and snuggle. And the beauty of it was—even though he couldn’t control his fluids at that point, she never minded the smell. Her love for him was so great that they would still kiss and all that good stuff. When the doctors said that it was time for him to go to hospice, he said he didn’t want to go. He told them that he wanted to come back home and die with me. I was with him in the end. My patients never die alone. Never, ever. One week after his passing I was hired by his girlfriend’s family. She had terminal Alzheimer’s, and I ended up staying with her for seven years. I fell in love with her. We were family, just family. She used to be a tap dancer. We’d sing together. And if she didn’t feel like singing, I’d sing. Even near the end, she always knew when something was wrong with me. When I wasn’t being the Gabby that she knew-- she would always know. When the doctors said it was time for her to go to hospice, her children said: ‘We want her to die with Gabby.’ In the final days she wouldn’t eat, she’d lock her jaw. But she would always eat for me. One night I could see the fright in her eyes, and I knew it was time. My patients never die alone. Never, ever. So I climbed under the covers with her. And she passed away in my arms.”

12/22/2023

Love is all we need