Everwood Farmstead Foundation is an arts non-profit located on a century-old farm in the bucolic Driftless Zone of Western Wisconsin. We host inspiring spaces for artists to perform (Artist Series), teach (Artist Workshops) and work (Artist Retreat) in a natural environment. We focus on the artists' experience because we know when they are happy, healthy and nurtured, it is good for everyone. Every day, their job is to find fresh language for the human experience. As a result, healing and…
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Today we are joined by actor, writer, and visual artist Senyah Haynes and songwriter and musician Molly Brandt. We talked with Molly and Senyah about when they each started to identify as an artist. Does being an artist mean you make all of your money off of your art? Does it mean you work on your art every day? Or is it something else? Molly and Senyah offer their own ideas about what it means to…
Today's conversation is with vocalist and songwriter Maygen Lacey and writer, poet, and birth doula Sarah Auna. We started the conversation off by talkng about the extended capacity Maygen and Sarah both felt as a result of being on the farm. We then followed that thread to explore what that extended capacity allowed for: vulnerability, deep connection, and courage. This conversation is a moving…
We gathered in the barn at the end of Ann and Ariel's retreat week, after smoke from wildfires in Canada and Northern Minnesota had caused us to close the barn for a few days due to dangerous air quality. Ann and Ariel let the smoke and the land inspire a new piece that combines theater, poetry, movement, textile, florals, and more. We talk about the creation of this new work, and the ways that…
Today's conversation is with illustrators Jennifer A. Bell and Kayla Harren. Both visual artists, Kayla and Jen applied to spend their retreat week at Everwood together. While they don't often get to collaborate in their professional lives, they are frequently inspired by one another's practice. We talk about the importance of playfulness in making art — especially playing alongside other artists.
Today's conversation is with dancer Tyler Schnese and writer and poet Jason Robert Weidemann. Tyler and Jason retreated at Everwood during the summer solstice. We talk about how they both made use of these longer days during their retreat week, including immersing themselves in place. For Tyler, this meant making dances for themself in a barn in their home state of Wisconsin. For Jason, this meant…
Today on the podcast, we are sharing a conversation from the end of our 2025 Artist Retreat season with writer and musician Suzanne Ohlmann and audio producer Julie Censullo. Julie and Suzanne both were deeply inspired by each other during their retreat week — they say they fell into an easy rhythm of wandering, gathering, cooking, and creating stories together. In this conversation, we talk about…
We are kicking off our 14th season with a podcast conversation with James Kennedy and Ross Thorn. While Ross and James work in different mediums, they both spent their retreat week at Everwood engaging in some explorative world building. In this conversation, we talked about trying new things and how the outside world influences their art. Learn more about James at jameshkennedy.com and more about…
Geoffrey Lamar Wilson , also known by his stage name LAAMAR , is a Minneapolis based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. After spending his 20's studying and performing music in New York, and working the craft coffee cafe circuit in Brooklyn, he returned to his hometown in 2016 to "settle down". He emerged on the local music scene in 2023 with his song Home to My Baby, a song which…
Chris Stedman is a writer, podcaster, and professor who teaches in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN. He is the author of the books IRL , Faitheist , and the forthcoming Nothing in Particular , as well as the writer and host of Unread , named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by the Guardian, Vulture, HuffPost, Mashable, the CBC, and others, and…
Kurt Robert Engh is a theater-maker with the goal to expand the framework of what "theater" is in order to adapt the art form to a twenty-first century audience. He transposes experimental practices to narrative stories, addressing how contemporary audiences consume live performance. He is specifically interested in exploring Midwestern identity, creating characters as complicated as real people,…
