Stingray Artist Journey sits at the cross-roads of an art residency and a retreat, a space to generate work in your medium of choice, alongside supportive workshops to help heal creative blocks, and tap into new ways of accessing your body’s natural intelligence. Stingrays are known to symbolize developing confidence, sense of self, or spine. We hope this journey can serve as a place where we strengthen our artist-spine and bolster our authentic voice, turning down the loud voices of the inner critic and internalized and externalized oppressions. We will strive to create a space to move beyond systems of mass production, overriding speed, and fierce competition that infringes upon and limits our creative force. How can we practice and create a different system of value, that celebrates the artist within each of us?    

This journey was born out of our own desire for art to be reclaimed by us— the people. To reaffirm each individuals’ birthright to practice creative expression. Art enhances our lives. Acts of creation are deeply necessary in creating a world that is just; a world where people live in right relationship with each other and with the land. Acts of creation are necessary in creating a world where there is room for wonder and joy and beauty, a world that feels closer and more meaningful, with space for our soul callings. Our imaginations are the only places we can find new road maps.

If you resonate, we hope you’ll consider joining our fever of stingrays.

a multi-disciplinary space for creative re-wilding