“Sitting on the porch at Taylor house, overlooking the pond, watching the turtles swim, is the perfect backdrop to be able to breathe deeply and find energy to do the hard but so meaningful work I set out to do. I do not know how I would have refocused on writing and continuing my work in publish health without my time at Hambidge.”

—Regine Haardoerfer, Georgia, Science Writing

“I didn't feel a need to create a lot in quantity, but what I got was a richness in the quality of my time and creative practice.”

—Audrey Johnson, California, Dance

“This was my third summer residency at Hambidge, and each one has been incredible.”

– Sara Pirkle, Alabama, Writing

“Hambidge is a place of sharing, exchange, community, and love, and I’m sure the connections I made will last in time and will hopefully bring future collaborations with some of the fellow artists I met.”

—Francesca Remigi, Massachusetts, Music

“Hambidge provided the perfect setting for this state to be reached. It's vital that artists are given the time to develop their ideas like this.”

—Angela Eastman, North Carolina, Fiber Arts & Basket Weaving

“Even without hearing these important histories, I could feel the life, darkness, and presence of these mountains and woods. My experience here greatly informed my practice at Hambidge.”

– Haylie Jimenez, Tennesse, Ceramics

“From what I can tell, most residencies are not set up to accommodate differently abled people... Hambidge went out of their way for me”

– Megan Mosholder, Georgia, Installation Art

“It's so rare to find a program that is not based on end results, there is always a pressure on an artist to create and produce. Hambidge is not that, it gives time and space for an artist to be with themself without the pressure of having to create and produce.”

– Tim Stoltenberg, Georgia, Arts & Culture Administration

“I have overwhelming gratitude that Hambidge includes Arts and Culture Administrators in the residency offering. This signals that Hambidge understands and appreciates me as a creative person and a valued part of how the arts world runs.”

– Kate Canales, Texas, Arts & Culture Administration and Writing

“The beautiful landscape, solitude and absence of media at Hambidge was a much needed reprieve. Imagine my surprise when I met my younger self at Hambidge! (Metaphorically, of course!) Ideas and connections began falling forth unto the page as I listened to the wind in the trees, birds at dusk, crickets and frogs at night, and gazed at the milky way piercingly visible above me.”

– Eva Smith Glynn, California, Writing

“For the first time in two years I found myself bursting with ideas. I had that rare and fantastic feeling that I was ready to embrace the unknown. It was an extremely liberating experience to be in a space that didn't ask anything of me; a space that welcomed rest, experimentation, and contemplation.”

– Hannah Parrett, Ohio, Painting and Drawing

“I slowed down and started listening to the ideas of 'infinite patience'. I purged old ideas of quantity over quality. Spending time chewing on ideas, and letting go of those ideas that no longer serve me. I ended up making more work in less time because I was laser-focused on this idea of infinite patience.”

– Cynthia Mason, Florida, Painting and Sculpture

“It’s not just about ‘alone time’...having a supportive environment (philosophy, people, place, supplies, recreation, rest, nutrition) is essential. Creativity usually happens best when obligations and expectations are relaxed; paradoxically this tends to facilitate and heighten productivity.”

– Killick Hinds, Georgia, Music, Lee and Margaret Echols Musicians Fellow

“ I think this trepidation and overcoming of strangeness and unfamiliarity is the nature of making work. Every time you delve to create something new, you're affronted with this feeling of "who am I? how can I make this?" But you have to remember each time that to even begin, you're going to have to become comfortable with the uncertainty of where this work will take you”

– Chlese Jiles, Louisiana, Illustration, Argent Financial Fellow

“As a father of two young kids with a full time job, unstructured time is a rarity. Typically, I schedule out smaller blocks of time to complete specific projects. I decided to use my time at Hambidge in a very different way, giving myself time and space to explore a new direction in my work that I had just started finding the edges of.”

– Travis Weller, Texas, Music

“Finding common ground around a dinner table and on the trails, the residents group seemed to evolve as a kind of natural organism unto itself, each individual contributing to a vital, memorable whole.”

– Elly Meeks, New Jersey, Arts & Culture Administration

“Those who "make" need input, but we also need the time to process that input in the light sprung from turning over ideas and images in our minds and psyches.”

– Susie Paul, Alabama, Poetry

“I was safe, supported, and able to explore in different ways because I did not have to deal with the reflexive whiteness, white supremacy, anti-blackness and radicalized aggressions that are the norm in artist residency experiences.”

– Omolara Williams McCallister, Performance and Visual Arts Fellow