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Past Workshop
Finding Your Work: An Artists' Retreat Workshop
With David Bayles & Ted Orland
September 13 to September 16, 2010
St. Francis Retreat Center, San Juan Bautista, California
Photos: Jack Johnson
This workshop is structured in the rarest of formats: a true artists' retreat. For a few days at least, we'll leave our day-to-day worlds to share meals and simple accommodations at the secluded St. Francis Retreat Center, located in the foothills
surrounding San Juan Bautista. The Center provides modern accommodations, meals, and well-equipped meeting rooms -- all surrounded by acres of meadows, tree groves, a small lake and many foot trails.
Our purpose there will be to engage the questions that really matter to artists: What is your work really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting there?
Over the course of three-plus days there will be time enough for some guided outdoor fieldwork and for undertaking a small personal project of your own, and more than enough time for a shared examination of your work and the
experiences that have carried you to this point. This workshop is less about learning how to make photographs than about re-learning how to make your own photographs.
Instructors DAVID BAYLES and TED ORLAND are co-authors the best-selling book Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking. Each brings a distinctively different (but equally supportive) approach to workshop
sessions with fellow artists, and this retreat draws upon a substantial part of their shared philosophy about the nature of artmaking.
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