Kicking off 2025 with Kipaipai

Kipaipai retreat 2024 at Willow Pond SLO

For our first event of the year, we welcome back Kipaipai!

Kipaipai, meaning 'To Encourage and Inspire,' is a special program that focuses on professional practices in areas of gallery representation and museum exhibitions. This fantastic, dynamic, trusted artist community offers support with “the hard stuff” a.k.a self-promotion and for working artists, it can be the hardest part. The importance of relevant critical writing, presentation, and identifying and strategizing personal/professional goals are requirements that Do Not Quit.

The Kipaipai faculty helps participants immediately build their professional network through community and organic connections based on relationships and shared resources and the workshops are a lot of fun.

We are looking forward to hosting another memorable workshop at Willow Pond Retreat, the group will enjoy delicious daily lunches and optional morning and evening activities. Through private one-on-one sessions and group meetings, students had the rare opportunity to meet with a team of guest professionals. One Kipaipai community member shares her experience;

“The Kipaipai experience.....I feel like I gained an instant art family, guidance, love, inspiration, a cheering section, feedback from peers, advice and help from faculty, new friends... and a lot of fun bonding.”

Here at Willow Pond, we are busy getting all the little arrangements in place to host this group again and kick off the year feeling energized. More to come next week on what we get up to.