Residency
Summer Residency
May-August
Camp in High Meadow
Host Your Own Artist Residency
June-September
Access the entire farm
Our Approach
We see the residency as the beginning of a relationship. After their residencies, artists often come back the following season to host their own program. We also introduce them to our vast network of chefs, food pantries, facilitators and local makers to support the production of their event. We also find previous residents coming back to serve as visiting artists for future residency cohorts.
All of this feeds back into the growing farm community. Our residents live and work alongside one another and end up bringing their own cohort of artists into intimate gathering on the farm.
“Activation Residency is a rare space that actually shows up for community care. Every aspect of the residency is made with so much intention, safety, and vibrance. This space offered a balance of solo rest and play while creating time for connection. I feel completely changed by this experience. Community is a practice that is rarely shown up to with purpose, and this residency is changing that reality. I am grateful to have been a part.”
Annika Hansteen-Izora
2020
“Activation Residency opened my orbit to a level of care that is tender and pure. Truthfully I wasn’t sure what I was walking into and having left the weekend feeling recharged and loved, I ultimately didn’t know I needed something as special as this in my life, in this moment to get a better understanding of how we extend care to others but also our caretakers.”
Zenat Begum
2020
"My time at Activation Residency was transformational. That weekend affirmed for me that we can create a radically healing community by gathering together with open hearts, clear communication, and healing intentions. As a Black femme I rarely feel safe to show up fully as myself in a space. But at Activation Residency, I felt and witnessed acceptance, safety, and healing. This weekend modeled for me what a queer BIPOC-led future can be."
Rochelle Wilbun
2020