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A step-by-step guide for artists who dream of creating a residency, retreat, or creative sanctuary rooted in community, care, and sustainability. More artists than ever are imagining new ways to gather, create, and support one another outside traditional institutions. Whether you envision a small backyard residency, a land-based program, or an intimate creative retreat, Nurturing Creativity offers a practical, grounded path for turning that vision into a living, breathing program. Each chapter offers real-world guidance on designing your program, caring for artists, navigating logistics and finances, setting boundaries, and cultivating a sustainable rhythm-while honoring rest, curiosity, and creative autonomy. Nurturing Creativity helps you move from idea to implementation with confidence, clarity, and intention. This book is for artists who believe that community is a creative practice and that the most impactful programs grow thoughtfully, and in alignment with the values that inspired them in the first place.

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Shannon Amidon is a professional visual artist, writer, and the founder and director of The Verdancy Project, a land-based artist residency and creative community rooted in nature, rest, and connection. She is the author of Cycles of Creation: Five Years of The Verdancy Project and has been published in Where Women Create, Content Magazine, and Encaustic Arts Magazine.Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and is held in corporate and private collections, including Google, Wells Fargo, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, and Imagery Estate Winery.As both an artist and writer, Shannon's work reflects a lifelong fascination with the natural world and creativity as a lived practice.

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