Molly is a chance to do your work on your schedule but with folks around to help you, people to meet up with at the bar if you wish.  If you join us for a bike ride or a boat ride, for a morning sit and talk, for a Friday picnic or for Sunday dinner, for a zip through a museum or tour of something unusual with a local, it gives your schedule cornerstone and your mind some new ideas. These folks can also offer feedback on your work. A variety of perspectives from comrades in beauty.

And it is a chance to breathe in Amsterdam through your eyes and through the eyes of others, a process which transfers itself to your art in a fertile way.

Because we make the city our classroom, it is all too easy to say that the inspiration you need comes from the physical, from the canals and the butter built houses that lean alongside them, the funny angles that crop up at each corner, the way the city’s sundial shape allows you to get joyfully lost even as you chase the sun.

Beyond Amsterdam’s physical beauty, though, what presses in on your muse so agreeably here are all the people, people living, people whose lives you get a tiny glimpse of as they bike by, as you walk in the street, as you see them in windows or enjoying the 10:00 pm light with a drink by canal. There are more populous cities in the world of course, but in few places do you see more faces than in Amsterdam, faces framed by a moment of activity worth capturing or reflecting on. The citizenry of mirrors here is yours to enjoy and reflect on.

Maybe this translates into your art in some direct way. Susie biked every street of the city and then turned the computer-generated trail she left into something tactile.  The work Alison’s made here borrows from the shape of the city.  Katie’s an internship at an animation studio served her well.  Ana played a few shows in town. Kirk played too few of his songs at Black Gold and Charley’s.  And, of course, the city is brimming over with museums and makers, galleries and cafes you can visit and use as places to work. Between the city and those we know in town, Molly can make sure you think differently, get something done, enjoy the doing.

Some people need total seclusion to make their art. If you need some bustle, some time to yourself, some good beer and a million interesting, beautiful, fun places to walk–to pootle (yes it’s a real and crucial word for every artist to know–maybe Molly is for you.