Artistic Kindred

Artistic Kindred is dedicated to providing providing education, resources, opportunities, networking, and inspiration for artists of all types by experiencing a giant art festival retreat.

Artistic Kindred Committee conducts activities related to the Creativity Collective’s members-only yearly retreat. This includes planning and executing artist retreats. These activities are conducted monthly and are either in-house or in the community. The retreat furthers the exempt purposes of The Creativity Collective by providing education, resources, networking, opportunities, exposure and experience to all attending artists. The committee works 90 percent of the time on these activities. The remaining 10 percent is providing content for  the Artisan’s Almanac. Artistic Kindred Committee funds itself through fundraising, the magazine, monetary contributions, in-kind contributions, yearly conference and additional organization programming.

Every year in August, The Creativity Collective takes a week off to recharge their batteries in the Black Rock Desert at the outdoor multi-art experiment, BURNING MAN.

It is a open artistic community and great place to bring your writer's block, your unfinished opus or your seed of an idea for a week long break from societal constraints.

Below are some of our accomplishments

• Writers, musicians, actors, graphic designers and visual artists from The Creativity Collective attended Burning Man in 2010 and at least on collaboration came from the event.

What you have to look forward to:

Continued education offered at our conference and our yearly retreat: Burning Man:

50,000+ people travel to this temporary art-city every summer for radical self-expression, release and inspiration.

One of the reasons it was chosen by The Creativity Collective was due to its proximity to Klamath Falls, OR -- a short three-hour drive. Burning Man contains a comprehensive art culture with theme camps that have jazz music, circus arts, sculpture, yoga, film, fringe theater and more.

According to the official Burning Man website, "Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance." It is known for occasional windstorms and drastic temperatures. Participants bring what they need for the week, and they depart without leaving a trace. You cannot sell or buy anything while you are there (except ice and coffee and tea that is provided by Burning Man cafe). Tickets must be purchased separately, prior to the event at around $300 per person.

Nowhere else but Burning Man will one see a land-roving blow-fish car, towering structures made of semi-trucks, a two-story carton of milk, or hundreds of fire-spinning competitions and exhibits all in one place.