Salmon
Creek
Arts
Come to Salmon Creek:
Salmon Creek Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization offering year round 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, now a long term living art project shaped by many hands.
- ๐ SCHOOLS OF SALMON CREEK applications open for spring and fall 2027.
- ๐ SUMMER STAYS bookings open late 2026 for 2027 season.
Salmon Creek Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization offering year round 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, now a long term living art project shaped by many hands.
We cultivate expanding communities of artists, each coming with an intention and something to offer, 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.
Schools of Salmon Creek is a free two month land-based student-run school in the spring and fall focused on the โembodied and living arts.โ Along with the one to four week Winter Workshops and skillshares they focus on the activities of life on the land through the lens of the artist: stewarding, cultivating, cooking, crafting, moving, and publishing. In the summer we offer one or two week retreats.
Salmon Creek Farm is located on 33 acres of second and third growth redwoods two miles from Californiaโs 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.
