Angela Eastman

“While at Hambidge I spent time working with invasive species growing on Hambidge's beautiful property...wisteria, Japanese honeysuckle, and multiflora rose. It felt like a great gift to have the time to spend in the woods getting to know these plants, my creative collaborators who grow so robustly in the ditches...

     It takes unstructured time away from the pressures of making money, and keeping all the logistics of life in line, in order to settle into an open state of mind that allows creativity to flow freely. Hambidge provided the perfect setting for this state to be reached. It's vital that artists are given the time to develop their ideas like this.”

—Angela Eastman, North Carolina, Fiber Arts & Basket Weaving