Be a Part of our Team

Lowe Mill A&E is a revolving door of art installations, events, and art classes. What we do is impossible without community support. We have a huge vision for 2024. Join our team to make it happen.

Lowe Mill A&E is the largest privately-owned arts facility in the nation. We believe we are the most dynamic space asking, “How can we do right by artists?” The opportunities we create for artists and creative entrepreneurs in North Alabama, Greater Appalachia, and the Southeastern U.S. are invaluable to the goal of keeping art sustainable.

How do we do it?

We work tirelessly and we don’t do it alone. Our small office staff employs contractors, accepts volunteers, and receives so much support from our community - often unsolicited.

Community Support

We are consistently touched at how much this facility means to the people in Huntsville, Alabama. Last year, a friend of The Mill, Jerry Berg, asked our Executive Director how we could plant more trees on the property. If you have never physically been to Lowe Mill A&E, we have 190,000 square feet of a historic textile mill to occupy with artists and art. We sit on 18 acres. There is so much more room for trees, but as you can imagine, there are a lot of demands on our budget.

Our director, Marcia (who works dawn to dusk to keep our gears turning), asked the same of Mr. Berg: “How can we plant more trees with our parameters?” And Mr. Berg found out how. He heard Frank Williams at Lander’s McLarty Subaru was extensively involved with Friends of Trees, an organization that raises money for just this purpose. They came last month and put them in the ground. This is just one example of how our facility is held and nurtured by the community. It takes so much to make this happen and we don’t do it alone.

What Comes Next

We have a huge vision over the next 10 years. This year we are taking on an artist with a medium new to us: blacksmithing. We are working hard to build a forge. Right this second, there is a college-educated glass blower in Mobile. We are raising money to create the specific facility they need. Ravenwood Meadery needs space to expand and host clients in a larger room. If you can believe it, we have more space available to us. The historic boiler room needs a new roof, but is otherwise sound. We are raising money to restore that beautiful building and make it a place for this incredible business to thrive.

You can be a part of our team anywhere in the world by sending a small donation here. If that is currently inaccessible to you, please look at the many other ways to support our initiatives and help us expand.

Support Our Work

Get Involved

Lowe Mill A&E is a massive facility that houses studio artists, hosts visiting artists in galleries, creates accessible art education, and plans events that give opportunities to creative entrepreneurs. Would you like to get involved? We need all hands on deck!

Donate

If you’d like to donate to our expansion, please visit our donation page or sign up for a paid subscription to Substack.

Shop Small

We have over 250 artists, makers, and creative entrepreneurs in our historic factory. Plan your next trip to Huntsville, Alabama and see for yourself what our facility is doing. Our events calendar stays full year-round. If you can’t make it in person yet, visit our extensive list of studios online or purchase some work from a small sample of rotating artists in our online shop.

Sponsor an Event

If your business is looking for visibility in our rare community of art enthusiasts, please read more about Event Sponsorship here.

Rent a Space

If you need a space that will give your event the perfect backdrop, contact us about renting a room or ballroom in Lowe Mill A&E.

Volunteer

Every year, thousands of volunteers flock to Lowe Mill A&E to lend a hand in making events and opportunities possible to the community. Our volunteers have fun and make a huge difference to the things we can accomplish. Visit our volunteer page and get in touch with our coordinator.

Stay in Touch

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If you have any other questions, please contact us here.