Salmon
Creek
Arts
Salmon Creek Arts is a non-profit organization offering seasonal programs at Salmon Creek Farm, a sanctuary of precious riparian and coast redwood habitat on Central Pomo land, established as a counterculture commune in 1971. We inaugurated programs in 2024 and launch year-round activity on the land in 2025 with a one month wood fire ceramics workshop in April and seasonal sessions of The School of Salmon Creek starting in May.
We cultivate expanding communities of artists who build, cook, craft, garden, move, publish, and steward. Each artist comes with something to offer the commune, learning from each other and the land. There is time to slow down, space to take a step back, the chance to live close to the land, to participate in its cycles, dwelling in modest hand-crafted spaces within a communal free-range wild wooded environment.
Salmon Creek Farm is located on 33 acres of second and third growth redwoods two miles from California’s Mendocino Coast. Old logging roads and foot trails criss-cross south facing slopes from sunny meadows, gardens, orchards, communal outdoor kitchen, and dance deck on top, to eight original commune cabins each nestled in their own nook of the terrain, across a ravine that bisects the land to abandoned off-grid cabins, and finally down to Big Salmon Creek in the valley. It is an especially good spot to feel your small place in the big cycles of life on earth.
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Salmon Creek Farm has been informally offering arts programs in a similar spirit since 2014, including writing retreats, wood-fire ceramics workshops, carpentry and food gardening skill-shares, and free BIPOC artists retreats. As an independent self-sustaining non-profit 501(c)3 organization, SCA will eventually take over operations and ownership of Salmon Creek Farm.
WORKSHOP:
Wood Fire Ceramics
Monday, March 31st to Friday, April 25th 2025
In partnership with our Albion neighbors Cider Creek Collective. An immersive, collaborative month long workshop making objects using primary local materials: native clay, salvaged wood as fuel for the kiln, our own hands, and the natural time of elemental processes. Accommodations at SCF and weekday workshops at Cider Creek Collective. Open to *all* levels.
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In partnership with our Albion neighbors Cider Creek Collective. An immersive, collaborative month long workshop making objects using primary local materials: native clay, salvaged wood as fuel for the kiln, our own hands, and the natural time of elemental processes. Accommodations at SCF and weekday workshops at Cider Creek Collective. Open to *all* levels.
Price is total for single, couple, or group - not including $1600/ea Cider Creek workshop fee:
︎ Solo at Salmon or sharing Cedar/Dawn ($2100)
︎ Solo or couple in 1 bed at Moonlight, Walden or River ($2250)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends in 2 beds at Rainbow ($3700)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends in 2 beds at Cedar ($4200)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends at shared cabin, in 1 of 2 separate bedrooms at Dawn ($2100/$2500)
︎ Group cabin for up to 4 people in three beds / two bedrooms at Dawn ($5000)
︎ Solo at Salmon or sharing Cedar/Dawn ($2100)
︎ Solo or couple in 1 bed at Moonlight, Walden or River ($2250)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends in 2 beds at Rainbow ($3700)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends in 2 beds at Cedar ($4200)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends at shared cabin, in 1 of 2 separate bedrooms at Dawn ($2100/$2500)
︎ Group cabin for up to 4 people in three beds / two bedrooms at Dawn ($5000)
- Reach out if you applied for the February session and couldn’t join us, but still interested for April, no need to apply again.
- Couples/groups encouraged to apply, each applies separately and accepted as a couple/group.
- Read about Life with the Land at SCF before applying.
- We are offering these programs as affordably as possible and fundraising for a future scholarship program. In the mean time we are inviting those who can afford more to contribute towards discounts for applicants of historically marginalized communities (especially BIPOC).