REAL TALK

Cabin-Time Art Camp is a roaming artist residency to remote places.

The first Cabin-Time is going to be a 4 day art-making trip to an old CCC cabin in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, in Ontonagon, Michigan (U.P.). The model is to take trips to remote, wild places, make site-specific and site-influenced artwork (independently and collaboratively), return and have an exhibition and document the whole process through blog posts, photos, and video. The lineup for the first Cabin-Time is:

Geoffrey Holstad: http://geoffreyholstad.com
Ryan Greaves: http://youandistudio.com
Christina Mrozik: http://christinamrozik.com/
Adam Wolpa: http://adamwolpa.com
Pat Perry: http://patperry.net
Sam Snedeker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49285558@N00/
Drew Melton: http://yourjustlucky.com
Colin McCarthy: http://colin-mccarthy.com/ (project photo/video)

I invited about 15 artists for this first go (capped at 8 max, 8-person cabin), and took the first 7 to confirm their attendance. I received almost 30 emails confirming attendance from all over the U.S. which has been super encouraging. The plan now is to have a C.T. every season (one in the winter, one in the spring...), run a kickstarter or write some grants, build this thing.

The first C.T. will be January 8-11, you can follow the project on the blog: http://cabintime.tumblr.com.

Feel free to email me at geoffrey (dot) holstad (at) gmail (dot) com with any questions. I'm going to put out a call-for-artists soon for C.T. #2 (location t.b.a.) with a short application for download on the C.T. blog.

Happy trails.

I decided the Porkies for the first go for a couple reasons. The first, that it's super remote. One of the most remote areas of Michigan outside of Isle Royale. Secondly, I've been there before, knew somewhat what to expect, and have stayed in the cabin before that we've reserved. The little foresight this offers the project is comforting while still being a serious jaunt. The Porkies are no joke in the middle of January. I remember last year when I was there we had our NOAA weather radio on, and caught a forecast from across the lake in Duluth, forecasting a high of negative 9 degrees.

The first trip is going to clear up a lot for what the second site should be. I'm brainstorming different ideas, maybe having a bigger C.T. for the second one in the spring (like 15-20 artists), at a DNR cabin in Yankee Springs (40 mins from GR). Would love to have some C.T. trips just be like 2 or 3 people hoofing it somewhere super remote. Big dreams include renting abandoned firetowers in Northern Idaho and Washington, old/defunct logging camps in Maine, gutting a tiny 50s-60s trailer and flipping it into a studio to act as a HQ for the project.

I emailed Signal Fire (http://signalfirearts.org) yesterday about meeting up down the road, and have talked to the Rabbit Island (http://flavors.me/rabbitisland) guys about working together.

Are people allowed to bring wives and babies?

Just kidding.

I'm super jealous of this. It sounds amazing. Will follow from afar.