Founded in 2008 by Peyton Wimmer and Aaron Williams, formerly of the SIMS Foundation, Austin Art + Music Partnership (AAMP) is a nonprofit organization created to nurture and protect the creative process. Our 7,000 square-foot studio warehouse, just a few blocks from the popular South Congress (SOCO) strip off South First Street, provides support for local creatives by providing them with space and resources to develop their projects and ideas. We are actively seeking financial support from the Austin community, and have a wide range of options for interested parties. To donate, select the “Donate Now” button to the left.
Our Mission
• 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.
How it Works…
In exchange for use of AAMP’s space and services, 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, or through event/performance income sharing with AAMP.
Our 7,000 square-foot warehouse (located at 411 West Monroe Street off South First Street) provides
• Creative work- and make-space;
• Meeting and event space for community meetings, classes, workshops, programs, and live performances;
• Incubator services and fundraising technical assistance for creative start-ups; and
• A safe-space for youth.
By integrating creatives into the larger community, AAMP lays the groundwork for 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.
