SSB AWAY provides crucial time and space for artists to step away from career demands and public scrutiny. To play with and explore emerging, unfamiliar, messy or mysterious aspects of their practices and open to new ideas, processes, theories, dreams, and artistic experiments. Retreat residences offer artists the agency to leave their habitual surroundings—to rest and inhabit a nourishing space of creative sanctuary where solitude, access to nature, and multivalent privacy abound. SSB offers residencies in Abiquiu, New Mexico and other locations in the U.S. and abroad.
SSB AWAY
ABIQUIU, NEW MEXICO & MAUI, HAWAII
In a rugged desert environment in Northern New Mexico, SSB AWAY offers a two-week residency at Plaza Blanca (“the white place”), memorialized in countless paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe. The mesa is a space of deep solitude, silence, and emptiness—offering artists an ideal location to retreat, rest, recreate, and dream in the midst of pristine enchanted landscapes. Petroglyphs and pictograms abound, testament to a continuum of millennial history. The Genízaro village of Abiquiu (where Georgia O’Keeffe’s home is located), Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu Lake, and nine northern pueblos are nearby.
Past Artists in Residence, New Mexico & Hawaii
TUSCANY, ITALY: 2016-2020
From 2016–2020 SSB Away hosted artist residencies on a 40-acre working olive oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, in the Tuscan countryside.
