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NOTE: Registration is a two-step process for those that want a private room. First, select your event ticket (commuter, residential, or camping) and the program fee will be added. If you’d like upgraded lodging (a private room instead of the dorm or cabin included with the basic on-site event price), you will then be directed to our Cloudbeds to complete your accommodation selection. All rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have mobility concerns and need assistance finding an accessible room, please contact our front desk.
PLACEHOLDER - pricing TBD (Camping / Commuting / Residential)
Creativity as Countermeasure - October 2-4, 2026
What happens when we understand creativity as a potent mechanism for saying NO to the oppressive status quo – which opens the door to YES for something better? What is creativity and why does it matter, given the current state of the world and/or the current state of our personal lives? What can it move, heal, elevate, transform, end, or help? How and why does our culture undermine it, and at what cost?
Join Western Mass. artist and creativity teacher Dana Wilde for a catalyzing weekend of exploring questions around the nature of creativity and why it matters. Leave with a refreshed appreciation of your own and other’s creativity as a defining aspect of our humanity that needs to be brought from the sidelines to the forefront.
Space limited to 10 people.
This weekend is for:
- Artists of all kinds — writers, musicians, visual artists, and everyone in between
- Blocked, aspiring, or late-blooming artists
- Therapists and helping professionals
- Social-justice-minded people who know that outer change requires inner change
- Creatives feeling irrelevant or derailed by current events, in the world at large or in their own communities
Dana Wilde's Work
Dana Wilde's Bio
Dana Wilde is an artist devoted to creativity as a healing force and spiritual practice. Drawing, collage, handwriting, and printmaking are her primary forms. She also crafts supportive, catalyzing group experiences for people who want to reconnect with their own creativity, or find camaraderie with others in trying to prioritize it amidst the realities of modern life.
In 2026, one of Dana’s pieces was published in Contemporary Collage Magazine (UK), print and digital. It’s from her new body of work called Decontextualized, a series of about 40 abstract collages that mark a major artistic pivot. In 2025, she was awarded a $5,000 Creative Individuals Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Best known for her early body of mixed media intuitive drawing work Spirit Portraits (Northampton, 2000s-10s), her art studio + teaching space Inner Studio (Easthampton, 2015-2019), and playing drums in the “witch grunge” indie rock band Ex-Temper (2016-2023), Dana has been shaped by and made an artistic imprint upon Western Massachusetts for most of her life.