Austin Art + Music Partnership (AAMP) is a non-profit creative collective founded in 2008 by Peyton Wimmer and Aaron Williams, formerly of the SIMS Foundation.
Austin Art + Music Partnership’s mission is:
To protect and nurture the creative process;
To provide a space for creatives and the community to come together to work, heal, and create;
To facilitate collaboration between creatives and the communities in which they work and live; and
To build creative capital by producing project matrices and piloting collaborative projects that put creativity to work for the community.
At its 7000 square-foot warehouse located at 411 West Monroe Street, AAMP offers Partners work- and make-space; hosts meetings, classes, workshops, programs, performances and events; provides incubator services and fundraising technical assistance; and maintains a safe-space for youth.
In exchange for use of the space, Partners enter into a “Contract with the Community” that ensures the opportunity to pay back AAMP’s support directly to the community. They do this by offering mentoring, classes, workshops or scholarships to the community, or through event/performance income sharing with AAMP.
By integrating creatives into the larger community, AAMP lays the groundwork for our Partners to become a community resource. Whether the community seeks to offer a mural project for youth, create a public sculpture garden, design a roadmap to neighborhood walkability, generate a blueprint for channeled water catchment to irrigate our parks and schoolyards, or build a model for using volunteers to bring free and low-cost medical and dental care to the neediest among us, AAMP Partners provide the creative capital to grow ideas into reality.