AVL Arts | "How Lexington Glassworks Opens Doors For Emerging Artists"

"As part of our continuing series profiling pioneering creative spaces in Buncombe County, we are highlighting Lexington Glassworks, a nationally-acclaimed center for glassblowing and lighting design that opened in January 2015.

For the team at Lexington Glassworks, the decision to offer housing to residents was not just practical, it was necessary. “We wanted to be able to bring young artists here to work for us without the roadblock of trying to find affordable housing here,” says Marketing Director and Business Manager Ashleigh Hardes Koslow. “We were finding it hard to attract people. Taking housing out of the equation levels the playing field and helps us get different people here. 

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