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To awaken each morning to a day that is entirely yours is truly extraordinary. It is a difficult thing to describe — outside the realm of ordinary life, but a daily event as an artist-in-residence. My time here facilitated an intensity of focus and freedom I had never experienced previously. I discovered a tremendous amount about my studio practices, made considerable technical and conceptual progress in my work, and found lasting friendships with remarkable people.
— Jessyca Burke
Artists: Have you recently been in-residence? Doing a residency soon? We'd love to hear from you! We are collecting stories for our "work in progress" blog about artists' residency experiences -- challenges and triumphs, transformations and observations. Email us with your blog submission. Please include your name and the residency name.
Posted august 1, 2011 by hillhouse
I'm excited to see more residency programs working to connect art making with community, ecology and a sense of place. Unlike the older "retreat" model, which serves artists (often from urban areas) by allowing them to "get away" and commune with something vaguely referred to as "nature," a true sense of place helps artists comprehend that they have arrived somewhere with a rich history. This history is not just the names and stories of artists who have come before or the biography of the founder, but a complex interweaving of ecology, economy and community.
Posted december 16, 2009 by hollywren
I am thick into the world around me. By vocation I listen, I go where my curiosities take me, I embed all over the place. Yet so much of the work and life of a writer is solitary--a beautiful aloneness--and one which at its best breeds both a secret life, and words that serve the needs and desires of readers. Just as important to the process is the occasional company of others who are similarly engaged. It is at the intersection of these values--amidst the quiet and the conviviality--that I am most able to recognize what I have to say and how I will say it. For me, it is not an overstatement to insist that an artist residency is a sort of Shangri-La--one which I can get to from here.
Posted december 22, 2010 by caitlin
"With government support for the arts a casualty of the culture wars being fought out in national politics, we obviously face a time when our support as individuals becomes more urgent."
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