Eva Smith Glynn

“I was honored and humbled to be accepted to the Hambidge Center for my first residency. I felt excited and nervous to put my trust in a place I had never been and engage with a community I had never met. I was amply rewarded by an exquisite landscape, inviting facilities, warm care from the staff, and friendships with artists who were so much more impressive than me! Painters, illustrators, poets, writers, musicians, singers, dancers and ceramicists were my community for two weeks. We met for dinner, broke bread and talked well into the evenings. Some artists produced a lot of new work during the residency, others took a breath to re-energize and contemplate their creative journey.

I, for one, did both. As any artist knows (yet nonetheless struggles with) 'creative time' doesn't move in the same way or at the same pace as our modern lives—certainly not my life in Silicon Valley, CA. The beautiful landscape, solitude and absence of media at Hambidge was a much needed reprieve. Imagine my surprise when I met my younger self at Hambidge! (Metaphorically, of course!) Ideas and connections began falling forth unto the page as I listened to the wind in the trees, birds at dusk, crickets and frogs at night, and gazed at the milky way piercingly visible above me. What a gift!”

– Eva Smith Glyn, California, Writing