Description

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s Weekend Retreat Residency Program ​​provides opportunities for artists of all genres to create, live, and collaborate in the idyllic countryside of the Hudson Valley. With studio space, meals, and housing on our Hudson Valley campus, these weekends offer an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence. Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats are tailored to accommodate individual artists and small groups spanning various creative disciplines. The new residency program offers affordable access to spacious studios and specialized workspaces for dancers, writers, visual artists, composers, musicians, and designers. Residencies are generously subsidized and include essential amenities such as individual, hotel-style rooms and healthy, locally sourced meals. The Weekend Retreat Residency Program will take place over two weekends in the winter of 2025: January 24-26, 2025; and February 7-9, 2025. The Dancers’ Inn and Artists Gatehouse Apartments offer 20 guest rooms nestled within our expansive 153-acre campus. The organization’s unwavering commitment to historic preservation and environmental conservation has safeguarded its extensive open spaces, pristine hayfields, lush woodlands, and inspiring vistas of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains. The Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreat is $500 for an individual artist per weekend, inclusive of access to studios, lodging, Friday dinner, Saturday meals, and Sunday brunch. Group costs begin at $500 for the first artist, adding $300 for each additional artist.