Arts Residency In Santa’s Cabin

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Joe Patti

Came across an interesting artist residency program that is currently soliciting applications about two weeks ago. Cabin Time describes itself as “a roaming creative residency to remote places.”

The residency program takes 12 creatives to remote parts of the U.S., allowing each to work on some sort of project. They host both a summer and winter session. This August they are going to be in Santa, ID. In previous years they have been onsite in places like Desolation Canyon, Green River, Utah and Rabbit Island, Lake Superior, Michigan.

Cabin Time has videos and photos from each residency that make it difficult not to want to go out and create something amid all the natural beauty.

If this sounds interesting and you qualify as one of those “Cabin Time invites artists, designers, writers, musicians, scientists, sign-painters, bird-watchers, cheerleaders, schemers and dreamers to make site-specific work in cooperative intentional isolation,” you might consider submitting an application. Deadline is noon on June 2.

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Joe Patti

I have been writing Butts in the Seats (BitS) on topics of arts and cultural administration since 2004 (yikes!). Given the ever evolving concerns facing the sector, I have yet to exhaust the available subject matter. In addition to BitS, I am a founding contributor to the ArtsHacker (artshacker.com) website where I focus on topics related to boards, law, governance, policy and practice.

I am also an evangelist for the effort to Build Public Will For Arts and Culture being helmed by Arts Midwest and the Metropolitan Group (details).

My most recent role is as Theater Manager at the Rialto in Loveland, CO.

Among the things I am most proud are having produced an opera in the Hawaiian language and a dance drama about Hawaii's snow goddess Poli'ahu while working as a Theater Manager in Hawaii. Though there are many more highlights than there is space here to list.

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