How to APPLY

Please apply to Slow Art Summer Retreat by APRIL 30th.

Slow Art Summer Retreat will have a limited number of spaces. We can accept 10 full-time participants this year, and we welcome people who may want to attend just part of the retreat. Please get started with the application if you would like to participate!

To apply to Slow Art Summer Retreat, please consider and respond to the following questions. Email your numbered responses to Laura Noble at slow.art.summer@gmail.com. The subject line of your email should say "Apply".
Please number your answers according to the application questions so the gentle people who must read it will have an easier time. Thank you!

General Application Questions:

What is your...
1. full name
2. For what dates would you like to attend the retreat (you may say "full retreat")?
3. gender
4. date of birth
5. mailing address
6. permanent address (if different from mailing)
7. phone number[s]
8. email address

9. current occupation other than your art, if you are not supporting yourself solely by your art--your "job" (e.g., student, train conductor, ski instructor)

10. education (your most recent degree & school; you may write a few words if necessary)

11. other residencies attended, if any

12. preferred medium or genre (e.g., performance, painting, sculpture, poetry)

13. Describe why you would like to attend Slow Art Summer Retreat.

14. Please describe any experience you may have with meditation. You may describe your current personal practice of meditation, any formal training you may have in a spiritual or contemplative tradition, or If you have very little, or no experience of formal meditation, then just tell us a little bit about how being still, being mindful, settling down, whatever you call it-- how that figures into your daily life.

15. Describe the practical aspects of your creative process: we would like to know the size, equipment (such as easels or a dance floor), materials and processes you may use, and anything else you can tell us about you process that we may need to know to find you an appropriate studio space. You are responsible for bringing your own art supplies.

16. Please give us some insight about your art. This may otherwise be known as an artist's statement.

Emergency Contact:

17. Please provide the name, phone number and address of someone you would like notified in case of an emergency during the retreat.

Medical Status:

18. Do you have any medical conditions that it may be helpful to disclose to us?

References:

19. Please provide the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of two people who are familiar with you and your art and/or meditation practice who would be willing to supply a reference for you, if asked.

Other Vital Information:

20. Describe a typical day for you. How do you spend most of your time?

21. If English is not your first language, what is your native tongue?

22. Have you ever had an experience of "losing yourself" while doing an activity? What activity was it? What was it like?

23. Are there any specific activities you have in mind to do this summer relating to your art that we should plan for?
You do not need to come up with anything to answer this question, especially if you feel it might limit you, but if you do have some specific needs that you didn't address earlier that may require some planning from us, please say so.

Food and Diet:

An important part of this retreat will be cultivating the ground of our minds. When we use the word "ground", we invoke the earth itself. The actual earth, the environment of this retreat is something we will mindfully relate to as we go about our practice. Using locally-grown vegetables, and locally-raised meat for our food will be one important way to sustain ourselves joyfully and responsibly. Many of our meals will be cooked for us, but we will also be preparing some meals for each other as a way of being mindful, and experiencing the artful process of nourishing ourselves and others. The menu will include a lot of delicious vegetables, some meat (though not at every meal), and vegetable-based protein. Our goal is to have scrumptious, healthy, real food, not pigeon-holed one-way or another.. the delicious middle way.

24. Is there anything about your diet on which you cannot compromise? Do you have any strict restrictions?

25. Please list your three favorite versions of breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Concerning Substances Which Intoxicate:

We would like participants to be responsible about their use of intoxicants. It is much easier to practice in situation where we feel safe, sane and trustful of each other. Just like anything else, moderation and the middle way seem to be the best practice.

26. Is there anything else you'd like to add that we may not have addressed? Anything at all you might like to share-- this is space for that, if you wish..

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS APPLICATION AND FOR ANSWERING ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS HONESTLY! YOU DID A GREAT JOB.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US, PLEASE ASK!
email slow.art.summer@gmail.com

We should let you know by May 8th at the very latest what we have come up with concerning your application.