Since 2015 KNLT has been partnering with artists to advance the protection of wildlands. We held our eighth artists retreat on Pine Mountain last fall with a wonderfully creative group bringing the total number of retreat attendees to over 150 since we launched the program. The retreat offers an immersive weekend and engages artists in our Pine Mountain Wildlands Corridor project. Art and conservation are powerful partners. We welcome this new group of artists into the Pine Mountain Collective.
The fall retreat was made possible with funding from Snowy Owl Foundation & Patagonia.
Facebook gallery of images from the weekend: KNLT Artists’ Retreat 2019 Photos
We were honored to have the following individuals participate:
Linda Blackford, writer, Lexington Herald-Leader
Jannell Canerday, industrial designer & musician website
Robby Davis, designer & illustrator website
Andy Duckworth, musician website
Linda Erzinger, visual artist website
Ben Freedman, producer, Kertis Creative
Lyndsey Gilpin, reporter & editor, founder/editor-in-chief of Southerly
Shaina Goodman, musician website
Carey Gough, photographer website
Bob Hower, photographer website
Anne Kenan, textile artists & meditation teacher
Stephen Kertis, writer, storyteller & filmmaker, Kertis Creative
Jodie Koch, musician
Teresa Koester, visual artist/art educator/poet
Elizabeth Kostova, author website
Christine Laporte, Eastern Program Director, Wildlands Network
Mark Long, freelance journalist
Pam Oldfield Meade, mixed media artists website
Joanne Price, printmaker website
Tatiana Rathke, visual artist & photographer website
David Wagoner, musician & farmer
Matt Weir, sculptor website
Marianne Worthington, poet, editor & educator website
KNLT Staff & Board
Zoé Strecker, KNLT Advisor, Visual Artist, Writer & Art Professor, Transylvania University
Greg Abernathy, KNLT Executive Director
Derrick Lindsay, KNLT Forest Steward