Congrats to our 2021 Spruceton Inn Artist Residents!

More than 500 people applied this year to our Spruceton Inn Artist Residency (!!) and the talent. You guys. The TALENT.

Simon Arizpe, visual artist / Pooja Bhatia, writer / Marcus Anthony Brock, writer / Susannah Cahalan, writer / Jesus Ian Kumamoto, writer / Whitney McGuire, writer / Anne Elizabeth Moore, writer / Christine Rai, cartoonist / Daniel Salmieri, children’s book author & illustrator / Liza St. James, writer

I was overwhelmed going through all the applications. It’s always a lot to digest so many people’s creative visions and aspirations, I know this eight years in and yet it still slams me every time. But this year it was also such a necessary, soul-nourishing reminder that there are so many people out there making moving, unique art and hell if that didn’t just get me feeling plain old fashioned inspired and even a little excited about the prospects of humanity. It’s all too easy to get wrapped up in the horrifying and mundane details of life these days in a never-quite-ending pandemic, in a so-systemically-unfair world, ain’t it? I highly recommend inviting more art into your life. Maybe even into your literal backyard ;) I can’t wait to have these folks up this November!