In 1995 The Asolare Fine Arts Academy was incorporated to help emerging and under exposed artist and others interested in the arts and humanities.

To this end Asolare offers residencies, instruction, exhibition, and mentoring to selected artists as a not-for- profit community service arts organization incorporated in North Carolina.

In 2003 The Asolare Fine Arts Foundation, a 501c3 not- for-profit organization, was formed to support the activities of The Asolare Fine Arts Academy.

Asolare is a word coined by Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Italian cardinal and humanist poet, to describe life in the court of Caterina Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia, exiled by the Serenisima to the Italian hill town of Asolo. Versions of this word were also used by Robert Browning in his poetry.