Thank You Artist Residents
Like last year, we had batches of about six folks at a time for five days each during for our Spruceton Inn Artist Residency. The way it worked out was that most Artists didn’t have any professional overlap. Filmmakers were with novelists, photographers were with muralists, kids book illustrators were with journalists… Sure it’s fun and important to schmooze and talk industry sometimes. But it was such a pleasure to watch these people connect with each other as artists first and foremost, not necessarily industry peers. As people who are simply compelled to create.
With this residency we’ve always emphasized that there are zero expectations, that there's no wrong way to do it. Some people were powering through drafts, others were in the more nebulous inspiration/gathering phase. People took walks, had bonfires, made big "family meals" with each other, took freezing cold dips in the creek...! My hope is that each one of them left with something more than they came with.
