Kate Canales

“I have overwhelming gratitude that Hambidge includes Arts and Culture Administrators in the residency offering. This signals that Hambidge understands and appreciates me as a creative person and a valued part of how the arts world runs. So many arts and culture administrators are themselves arts and culture practitioners - often in the tiny margins between the commitments of their administrative work. Hambidge appreciates both things: that my work as an administrator is itself creative work AND that I am a practitioner in my field beyond that work. What a rare perspective to take. Thank you.

It is difficult to articulate how precious it was have this time to return to my own practice. To be free of meetings and deadlines. To have just one thing on the calendar: 7pm Dinner with fellow residents. To have entire days to read and draw and think and write and rewrite. In my life at home it is almost impossible to achieve a regular state of "flow." There is always a meeting or a carpool run or a dentist appointment or a dog walk or a load of laundry or a phone call from a friend bifurcating what might have been a relatively long period of uninterrupted time. The volume of uninterrupted time allowed to work at Hambidge would have seemed selfish back home, even if it were possible.

And yet, it is clearly the best way to get work done. I can't recall a time in my entire life that was like this 12 days.”

– Kate Canales, Texas, Arts & Culture Administration and Writing