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beccawrites just helped me set up this journal. It's a very new world for me, and I find the technology and the etiquette a little mysterious, a little daunting, and a little too fascinating (since I need to do things like eat my oatmeal and blueberries and all), but I want to start in a good spirit, so I thought I would start with a gift.
I'm a writer, and have had amazing, voluptuous, productive experiences spending time at residencies. I haven't done one in a while, but there is something about being sheltered and fed and left alone to do your work, in the company of others who are doing the same, that can result in a rich rush of work, or important insights into struggles about doing art and what you need or don't need to do it. Oh, it's great stuff, definitely worth a try if you're interested in art.
(Most places welcome visual artists, composers -- it really varies, so check out the info.) The residencies are most often a month long, but, again, that can vary.
http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/
This is a great working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians in the Adirondacks. There's a dock that leads right out onto a gorgeous lake, and canoes and kayaks that the residents can use. There's an emphasis here on artists who engage in political struggles, and sometimes they do conferecnes, too. I noticed that they've recently hosted, for instance Campus Anti-War Effort.
http://www.millaycolony.org/
This is in Austerlizt, New York, and it's the raging twenties poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's old estate. Most of the artists live and work in the old barn, with big individual studios overhead -- I pinned the pages of my novel up all over the walls of the studio when I was there, so walking into the studio was literally like walking into the world of the book.
I don't know what they're doing now, but I also went to the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos -- each artist had a small adobe house to work in. They don't have a website, but their address can definitely be tracked down.
And here's a link that lists a bunch of other residencies.
http://www.undertheinfluenceofart.com/utioa_colonies.htm
beccawrites just helped me set up this journal. It's a very new world for me, and I find the technology and the etiquette a little mysterious, a little daunting, and a little too fascinating (since I need to do things like eat my oatmeal and blueberries and all), but I want to start in a good spirit, so I thought I would start with a gift. I'm a writer, and have had amazing, voluptuous, productive experiences spending time at residencies. I haven't done one in a while, but there is something about being sheltered and fed and left alone to do your work, in the company of others who are doing the same, that can result in a rich rush of work, or important insights into struggles about doing art and what you need or don't need to do it. Oh, it's great stuff, definitely worth a try if you're interested in art.
(Most places welcome visual artists, composers -- it really varies, so check out the info.) The residencies are most often a month long, but, again, that can vary.
http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/
This is a great working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians in the Adirondacks. There's a dock that leads right out onto a gorgeous lake, and canoes and kayaks that the residents can use. There's an emphasis here on artists who engage in political struggles, and sometimes they do conferecnes, too. I noticed that they've recently hosted, for instance Campus Anti-War Effort.
http://www.millaycolony.org/
This is in Austerlizt, New York, and it's the raging twenties poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's old estate. Most of the artists live and work in the old barn, with big individual studios overhead -- I pinned the pages of my novel up all over the walls of the studio when I was there, so walking into the studio was literally like walking into the world of the book.
I don't know what they're doing now, but I also went to the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos -- each artist had a small adobe house to work in. They don't have a website, but their address can definitely be tracked down.
And here's a link that lists a bunch of other residencies.
http://www.undertheinfluenceofart.com/utioa_colonies.htm