Artist Residency: Day 1

A beautiful panoramic photo of a lake, with color-changing trees on the far side. As I write this I'm ending my first day at a week-long artist residency in the Pocono Mountains. It's being held at a lakeside cabin within a nature sanctuary, the air has a crisp chill but isn't yet truly cold1At least during the day, and the leaves are changing color. It's beautiful, and as much as I love #philly, it's nice to get out of the city for a bit. I believe I first started thinking about trying to get a residency while reading Nat Welch's blogs about his experience. I've been doing more art lately as both a hobby and a way to stave off existential depression, but never considered a residency as an option. My initial idea of an artist residency was that you needed to already be established and have a body of work to be considered, and that's at least partially true - a lot of them did. I ended up searching around various sites looking for anything local-ish2If you're curious, check out Res…

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