Become Part of Purring Folks
What’s Offered
Lodging
You’ll stay in one of the main homes’ guest spaces: You’ll have:
Private bedroom in one of the shared spaces, laundry access, towels, sheets, blankets, and pillows.
Access to all arts materials and machines that are agreed upon ahead of time based on the creative project scope.
Access to sauna
Forest trails and a lot of birdsong
✨ This is a first-year offering — raw, beautiful, and in progress. You’ll help shape what comes next.
Meals
Residents provide their own groceries
Communal meal days are encouraged but optional
✨ Want meals covered? See “Residency Paths” below.
Timeline & Duration
Residency length: 3 to 6 weeks (you propose based on your project)
Season: April–November 2026 (weather dependent)
Apps open: January 2026
Overview
Starting Spring 2026, Purring Oaks will welcome its first artist residents for 3–6 week immersive stays rooted in land care, creativity, and reciprocity.
This isn’t a polished, institutional residency — it’s an invitation into a shared experiment in slow living, co-creation, and tending something bigger than yourself.
Here, you won’t find polished studios or catered meals.
What you will find is 60 acres of woods, meadows, and possibility — and the chance to help shape a living ecosystem of art, care, and restoration.
Painters, musicians, film-makers, builders, movement teachers, foragers, zine-makers, herbalists, and tender-hearted visionaries: this space is for you.
Create slowly.
Live wildly.
Give back.
Contribution Model: Reciprocity in Practice
Purring Oaks is built on mutual aid, not extraction.
Every resident supports the land and community with their hands, ideas, and care.
Choose between two residency paths:
🌿 Basic Residency (Room Only)
15 hrs/week of contribution to Purring Oaks projects
Includes:
Garden support + permaculture projects
Trail building + forest care
Painting or natural building
Event help, altar tending, or project leadership
🌻 Full Residency (Room + Meals)
20 hrs/week = 15 hrs of land work + 5 hrs of a Legacy Project
Legacy Projects are your creative gift to the land + future residents. Ideas include:
Building a forest altar or tiny sculpture path
Hosting a weekly tea + somatic circle
Starting a zine library, herb spiral, or dye garden
Beautifying the container home with natural finishes
Teaching a gentle martial arts class for the local community
These projects leave roots for the next artists who arrive.
Every act of care becomes part of the ecosystem.
Who This Is For
We’re not here for hustle or polished resumes.
We’re here for alignment, reciprocity, and presence.
You might be:
A poet who paints altars
A somatic educator with a compost dream
A neurodivergent builder who sees possibility in decay
A BIPOC, queer, trans, disabled artist who just needs a safe place to land
This is a place to heal, to create, to rest, and to contribute to something that outlives you.
💌 Apply or Join the Early Interest List
We’re keeping our first year small — 2–4 residents max — so we can build with deep intention and care.
📝 Join the Early Interest List
📆 Applications open January 2026
Pricing structure is sliding scale (800-$1500). We don’t turn away anyone who is lacking in funding, as we are always able to work something out :) We want this to be possible for anyone, regardless of their financial capabilities.
