White Oak Arts & Stewardship

artist residency · selma, oregon

White Oak Studio, an earthen cabin with plaster carvings by Kenya Kinyani White Oak land and forest White Oak land

White Oak Arts & Stewardship is a ten-acre farm, forest, and music studio in Southern Oregon offering two complementary artist residency tracks. For five years, we have been building a sanctuary for musicians, writers, artists, and activists who need a quiet space in nature to slow down and attune to their creative work.

Residency Tracks

Creative Arts

For musicians, writers, and visual artists. Includes recording time in our earthen music studio with mixing and mastering support, private accommodations, and all meals.

Land Stewardship

For artists and learners who wish to deepen their relationship with the land through regenerative practices—including fiber arts, herbalism, natural building, permaculture, and the traditional arts of story and song.

Both tracks recognize that tending to creativity and tending to the land are intimately connected practices.

Who We're Looking For

We seek artists engaged with cultural traditions, folk practices, and place-based ways of knowing. This residency aims to uplift diverse cultural traditions and voices, as well as inviting cultural innovation that explores interdependence and reciprocity between people, culture, and the environment.

The application process will be public, and any work created here will be made publicly accessible.

Work Made Here

White Oak has already been the site of meaningful creative work. Plaster carvings by Kenya Kinyani adorn the studio walls, herbs from the forest have been made into medicine, and many songs and albums have been recorded and mixed here, including:

See the full list at recordings.

About Us

M'Gilvry Allen

M'Gilvry is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and natural builder. He has toured and collaborated with many artists, including Josiah Johnson (of The Head And The Heart), Rising Appalachia, Singing the Bones, Maya Elise, Aisha Badru, The Feelings Parade, and The Free Key Choir. M'Gilvry offers recording and production services at his studio in Oregon, and on location with a small remote recording rig. He also built the earth plaster cabin that became White Oak Studio—named for the tree that the roof is built around—and has designed and built many of the other structures on the property.

Abby Runte

Abby is a land tender, arborist, and environmental educator based in Southern Oregon. Her work is centered around supporting relationships between people and place, drawing on her background in farming, herbalism, permaculture and community education. Her vision is to be part of a cultural shift towards reconnection with local lifeways, centering nurturance, healing, and peace.

At White Oak, Abby facilitates land-based craft and exploration, cooks nourishing meals, and tends land and spirit through work, song and prayer.

Support This Project

White Oak Arts & Stewardship is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Get in touch to learn more about residency opportunities, or to support our work.