James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
THE BASICS
The Layman Group is a nonprofit Arts organization. We work in all mediums of Art. We are dedicated to expanding the scope of appreciation and advocacy for the Arts, the incubation and support of artists' careers, promoting thought provoking artistic dialogue, dynamic arts education, and the development of both classical and novel productions and projects - all for our beautiful state of Alabama.
HOW TLG BEGAN
The Layman Group is the brainchild of Founder & Executive Artistic Director, Doc Waller. While in NYC working as a stage actor, Doc contemplated the necessity of his exodus from his beloved state, and how the tone of the Arts in Alabama may be affecting other artists like him. This question led to a broader interest in investing his time and energy into developing an organization that both supported other artists, but also worked to develop Alabama communites as advocating, accustomed, nourishing environments for the Arts as a whole. Thus, in 2005, Doc returned home to plant the seeds of TLG.
OUR MISSION & PHILOSOPHY
The Layman Group stands to champion the emergence of the Arts and Creativity as essential ingredients of life.
We believe art is constantly running away from us. We will never catch up to it; we will never perfect it. In fact, we have no desire to. The more we work in Art, the more we have to learn about it. This alone keeps us happy and inspired.
As an organization, we approach our work with open arms and an open mind. In this approach, we choose not to discrimate against any person, group, or particular subject matter based on race, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender, creed, or economic status.
OUR GOALS
to reinforce the artist's worth and his or her role within the community
to continually expand the spectrum of artistic opportunities and appreciation in the community
to develop programs and projects which explore artistic and conceptual boundaries
to encourage discussion about the Arts to serve as a bridge to free expression, mutual respect and tolerance in the community
to assist collaboratively in developing the state of Alabama into a leader among the national Arts community
to develop challenging and unique educational programs within the Arts to compliment those of Alabama schools
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