The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences

The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences Since 1934, the Hambidge Center has awarded residency fellowships to today's greatest talents

Join us July 23-26 for a creative intensive in Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron. In this immersive three-day workshop re...
06/21/2026

Join us July 23-26 for a creative intensive in Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron. In this immersive three-day workshop retreat, participants will explore indigo through its many transformations from plant to pigment to vat.

Through guided demonstrations and hands-on practice, the workshop will begin with fresh leaf dyeing, focusing on how to coax vibrant color directly from recently harvested indigo. Participants will then move into small-scale pigment extraction, learning how indigo is processed, developed, and prepared for use. The final portion of the workshop will center on building and maintaining natural dye vats, with attention to reduction, oxidation, and the ongoing care required to sustain a living system.

Throughout the experience, indigo will be situated within broader contexts of agricultural practice, material science, and cultural lineage.

Our workshop retreats are an evolving series of immersive, retreat-style experiences that invite deep engagement with process, material, and place. The experience includes accommodations in our award-winning Antinori Village on our 600-acre campus, crafted meals, expert instruction in a creative medium, and serene time in the North Georgia Mountains.

Learn more and register now at our link in bio or hamdbidge.org/workshops

06/20/2026

Next week, join us for an evening conversation and live activation of our 2026 Hive installation “It would be odd to throw them away now” with Iranian artist, Noushin. During this intimate conversation with Noushin, she will share a deeper look into her creative process over tea encouraging guest to contribute their own stories to the growing legacy of the work.

This installation transforms used tea bags, collected from others, into a suspended textile form. Through its fragile, hanging structure, the work examines ritual, memory, and everyday connection. Tea—an ordinary act of sharing becomes a subtle record of conversation, routine, and elapsed time, revealing the intimacy embedded in daily life.

As an immigrant artist, Noushin works with tea bags and thread to investigate how notions of home are formed, disrupted, and rebuilt through repetition and care. Each stained tea bag carries a trace of human exchange, while the thread functions as a connective line linking people, places, and histories. Through the slow, repetitive processes of collecting and stitching, the work reflects the ongoing labor of belonging, transforming overlooked materials into an evolving archive of shared moments.

“It will be odd to throw them away now” by installation artist Noushin, now on view at the Hambidge Hive through June 27.

We have a lot of great events this June at our Atlanta satellite location, the Hambidge Hive, from a candle-making works...
06/16/2026

We have a lot of great events this June at our Atlanta satellite location, the Hambidge Hive, from a candle-making workshop and artist talk over hot tea, to a tattoo popup and viewing hours for the .where____ exhibition, "Tomorrow Mourning." This month is your last chance to catch the great 2026 installations we've had the pleasure of hosting in the Uptown space. Visit our website for more details and registration!

Photo credits:
-photo by of work by Makeda Lewis-Kinuthia
-staff photo of Hive installation by Jason Friedes
-photo courtesy of artist, Hive installation by Noushin
-staff photo of Hive installation by Ben Roosevelt
-photo by of elsewhere exhibition at the Hive

We have a lot of great events this June at our Atlanta satellite location, the Hambidge Hive, from a candle-making works...
06/12/2026

We have a lot of great events this June at our Atlanta satellite location, the Hambidge Hive, from a candle-making workshop and artist talk over hot tea, to a tattoo popup and viewing hours for the elsewhere exhibition, "Tomorrow Mourning." This month is your last chance to catch the great 2026 installations we've had the pleasure of hosting in the Uptown space. Visit our website for more details and registration!

Photo credits:
-photo by of work by Makeeda Lewis
-staff photo of Hive installation by Jason Friedes
-photo by Richard Ducree of Emma Ramirez performance and installation
-photo courtesy of artist, Hive installation by Noushin
-photo courtesy of artist, tattoo work by Matt Haffner
-staff photo of Hive installation by Ben Roosevelt
-photo by of elsewhere exhibition at the Hive

We love seeing Hambidge through your eyes! A big thank you to , multimedia artist and recent fellow, who shared these fa...
06/03/2026

We love seeing Hambidge through your eyes! A big thank you to , multimedia artist and recent fellow, who shared these fantastic snapshots of her experience this spring— capturing everything from nature hikes and the historic mill to studio time and meet ups with fellow artists.

Do you have photos of your time at Hambidge that you’d like to share with us? We’d love to connect! Send us a DM. Because no one gets a more intimate glimpse into Hambidge’s magic than our fellows. ✨🌱

We are almost sold out for our June workshop retreat—don't miss your chance to join us June 11-14 for a truly unique cre...
06/02/2026

We are almost sold out for our June workshop retreat—don't miss your chance to join us June 11-14 for a truly unique creative course in Ceramic Memory Houses with Lydia Thompson. Only a few spots remain!

In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a free-standing clay structure inspired by memory, place, and personal narrative. Using hand-building techniques such as slab, coil, and pinch construction, students will design and build an imagined house or abode that tells a story. Through guided demonstrations and group discussion, participants will explore how architecture can serve as metaphor.

Our workshop retreats are an evolving series of immersive, retreat-style experiences that invite deep engagement with process, material, and place. The experience includes accommodations in our award-winning Antinori Village on our 600-acre campus, crafted meals, expert instruction in a creative medium, and serene time in the North Georgia Mountains.

Learn more and register now at our link in bio or hamdbidge.org/workshops

05/30/2026

‘Tomorrow Mourning’ is tonight! Join us from 6:00-9:00pm tonight, May 30, at the Hambidge Hive, Uptown Atlanta for the opening of elsewhere .005: ‘Tomorrow Mourning,’ featuring Makeda Lewis, Scott Keightley, Ezekiel Robinson, and Stemlines.

‘Tomorrow Mourning’ features the works of four multidisciplinary artists exploring the nuances of the human experience. The impermanence of it all and how we grapple with or celebrate the things we cannot control. How do we honor our past selves in the present? ‘Tomorrow Mourning’ implores us to slow down and reckon with these ongoing questions.

elsewhere is an experimental art concept lead by Atlanta-based curator, Anna Akpele that we are very excited to collaborate with at the Hambidge Hive this summer.

Work, “tomorrow mourning,” by scott keightley

The inaugural Crafted Table event (on April 15) was unlike any meal we’ve ever hosted—and that’s really saying something...
05/21/2026

The inaugural Crafted Table event (on April 15) was unlike any meal we’ve ever hosted—and that’s really saying something, because we love to gather around a big, family-style table for creative conversation. Thank you to all who joined us and supported this great Hive event in tandem with our auction.

We’d like to particularly thank Chef for a lovely meal, the staff who dreamed it up, and the fantastic panelists who inspired us as we indulged: , , , , and !

Photos by staff and Debra Mosley.

Join us this Saturday, May 23, 1-4pm for our next free community event, "Developing Your Personal Glyph Language with If...
05/21/2026

Join us this Saturday, May 23, 1-4pm for our next free community event, "Developing Your Personal Glyph Language with Ife Williams." This three-hour workshop explores the creation of a personal alphabet and glyph system that functions as both a secret language and a powerful visual design tool.

Participants will design a complete set of 26 original characters, 10 digits, and custom punctuation marks while learning how symbolic mark-making can create rhythm, texture, pattern, and layered meaning across creative practices including ceramics, drawing, painting, textiles, journaling, and mixed media work. Participants will leave with a fully functional coded writing system and strategies for incorporating it into their own artistic practice.

Free with registration for Rabun County residents. $75 for non-residents. Space is limited. Register here:
https://www.hambidge.org/events/communityworkshopglyphs

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS COMING SOON:
June: Drawing with George Long
July: Face Mugs with Dominique Maru

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Rabun Gap, GA
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