ARTIST RETREAT

CONTINUUM/ORCHARD HILL
ARTIST RETREAT (COHAR)

Launched in September, 2022, the Continuum/Orchard Hill Artist Retreat provides artists with time, space, and support to do their work for three weeks in a beautiful setting in rural East Alstead, New Hampshire. The retreat is hosted in partnership with Orchard Hill, an organic farm and land cooperative with a 40 year history of community initiative rooted in social justice and sustainable environmental practices.

The first artist was JR Rhodes, a singer, composer, guitar player from Seattle.

The Orchard Hill setting comprises orchards, community gardens, fields, forest, animals, a pottery studio, a pond, a sauna, a school, and a community center building with an apartment and workspace for resident artists. It is also home to the Orchard Hill Breadworks, a (super cool) organic, wood-fired bakery that provides thousands of loaves of bread to stores and farmers markets all over southern New Hampshire and Vermont.

COHAR prioritizes BIPOC, low-income, and international artists, artists who face geographic, financial, and historic barriers that make it difficult to and experience rural North America.

Participation in the COHAR program is by invitation only at the present.

BROOKLYN

For decades people of all walks of life have come to New York City from far flung places around the world to pursue their dreams and to connect with New York’s uniquely vibrant artistic and cultural activities. For the most recent of these decades New York has ranked among the world’s most expensive cities, making the prospect of coming to New York increasingly challenging, especially for artists coming from historically under-resourced countries, communities, and backgrounds.

The Continuum Artist Retreat in Brooklyn gives artists a foothold in New York City by providing lodging, camaraderie, space and time for practice, rehearsal, recording, performance, and for exploring the New York cultural milieu. It’s a platform for many interactions and collaborations with New York artists and other visitors. To date we have hosted over 20 artists, many of them more than once.

Past artists have included Pablo Diaz and Paula Shocron, Paul Austerlitz, Biliana Voutchkova, Michael Thieke, Paul Austerlitz, members of Bread & Puppet Theater, Tatsuya Nakatani, Michel Doneda, Wes Brown, Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Abdelnour, Sharif Sehnaoui, Leonel Kaplan, Patrick Crossland, members of the Colombian band Meridian Brothers, Jane Rigler, Johannes Bergmark, royal hartigan, Jill Burton, Biggi Vinkeloe, Thomas Rohrer, and more.