THE WINTER GREENHOUSE

The Invitation

The Winter Greenhouse invites artists and cultural workers into a guided 9-week course for creative incubation. Together, we’ll connect with your values, clarify your ideas, and build the frameworks—core question, budget, collaborators, project narrative, and timeline—that bring your vision to life.

Building project proposals goes beyond the mechanics; it’s about redefining your creative process and shifting from burnout to a state of grounded clarity.

Through somatic practices, collective reflection, and structured guidance, transform your ideas into a fully developed project proposal.

The Experience

You’ll cultivate:

• A renewed relationship with your creative practice
• Confidence in articulating your project’s purpose and impact
• A community of peers committed to integrity and experimentation

You’ll produce:

• A fundable, values-aligned project proposal
• A draft budget and timeline
• A clear collaboration plan
• A project narrative

You’ll receive:

• Constructive feedback and support from experts and peers
• Somatic tools to sustain your practice
• A structured, week-by-week framework and guide
• Facilitated group sessions and 1:1 meetings (virtual)

Structure & Logistics

Duration: February 3 – April 2, 2026
Format: 9 weeks of virtual guided creative incubation
Live Virtual Sessions: Tuesdays, 12:00–1:30pm ET
Office Hours: Thursdays, 11:00am–3:30pm ET
Guest Critics: Allie Linn (A Blade of Grass) and Tsige Tafesse (Serpentine Gallery)

Each week includes:

• One 75–90 minute group session
• Optional 1:1 check-in
• Reflective worksheets and templates
• Somatic exercise developed by Anita Poushan of Shunyata Healing Arts

Accessibility:
All live sessions are recorded with captions. We can provide other accessibility support upon request—please contact us to discuss your needs.

This Course Is Designed For:

• Artists and cultural workers seeking clarity in mid-career transitions
• Collectives refining their collaborative frameworks
• Curators and creative organizers building values-driven initiatives
• Anyone seeking to re-root their practice in alignment

The Viridian House Approach

At Viridian House, we commit to unlearning systems that betray our values and revising our practices in real time—together.

Meet the Guest Critics & Contributors

Allie Halo Linn (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, and program co-director at A Blade of Grass from New York and Baltimore. Their work is motivated by collaborative institution-building, site-responsive practices, and crowd-sourced archives, and they have collectively organized various artist-run endeavors—including the Publications and Multiples Fair; the Artist-Run Art Fair; the Spiral Bound Book Fair; and Bb, a storefront gallery and project space—alongside countless collaborators. 

Linn has held positions at Recess, The Contemporary, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Analog Research Lab, and most recently United States Artists, where they oversaw various artist fellowship programs and launched Shift Space, an online art and tech publication that has commissioned new work and writing from over fifty artists, curators, and writers across five annual issues. Linn has curated exhibitions at Resort, Cardinal, the Menial Collection, SpaceCamp, Open Space, and Notre Dame of Maryland University’s Gormley Gallery, where they were the curator in residence from 2019 to 2020.

Tsige Tafesse (she/her) is an art worker moving between London and New York. She is currently part of the Arts Technologies R&D team at Serpentine Galleries, where she collaborates on experimental infrastructures for art and worldmaking. Her practice is rooted in the relational- curating, producing, and dreaming with others across disciplines, geographies, and timelines. She holds an MA from SOAS, University of London, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Tafesse has been supported by fellowships and residencies at Eyebeam, the Ford Foundation’s New Media Leaders cohort, NYU Tandon (Scholar-in-Residence), Brooklyn Community Foundation, NEW INC at the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Leadership Praxis program, and earlier in performance with Intiman Theatre and the Hansberry Project.

Over the past decade, she has developed programs and platforms with Processing Foundation, The Kitchen, New Museum, TED, The Africa Center, The New School, and Young Women Empowered (Y-WE), weaving together pedagogy, care-based technologies, and community-led infrastructures. She was a cofounder of artist collective BUFU:By Us For Us. Tafesse has shared work and conversation with spaces including MoMA, MoMA PS1, Art Basel Hong Kong, OpenAI and Strada Gallery, SXSW, Eyeo Festival, Creative Time Summit X, Seattle Art Museum, Rubin Museum, Bronx Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Recess, Feminist Culture House, School for Poetic Computation, Data&Society, NYU, Princeton, Abrons Art, Afrotectopia, Vera List Center, MoCA Los Angeles, and others.

Her writing traces speculative memory and digital resistance, with highlighted essays published in On Mind (The Kitchen), Software for Artists Book (Pioneer Works), SOAS Art and Politics in Africa Journal. She has been recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA 100), and featured in Frieze, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Artsy, FADER, Ebony, i-D, NYLON, Posture, VICE/i-D, Cult Classic, and Autostraddle.

Anita Poushan (she/her) is a licensed massage therapist providing services in and around Taos, New Mexico. Her philosophy focuses on the intersection between the healing arts and community. Shunyata Healing Arts, founded by Anita in 2015, exists to provide integrated massage therapy and increase access to education, self practice, and holistic health.

Meet the Facilitators

Jordan Martin (she/her) is a curator and creative strategist with over a decade of experience in building artist-led programs, residencies, and publications that prioritize care and experimentation. Previously serving as the Curatorial Production Manager at the Washington Project for the Arts, she developed collaborative models that positioned artists as co-creators of cultural programming. Currently, she is an Advisor for Art Department Inc., a creative studio focused on community-based public art and cultural consulting. A fourth-generation Washingtonian, Jordan has collaborated with institutions such as the DC Public Library, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, and Eaton Workshop. Her work connects strategy and storytelling, managing large-scale programs and helping to secure over $200,000 in grants for artist projects. Believing that artists are architects of future systems, Jordan is dedicated to creating structures that honor their complexity, imagination, and care.

Nathalie von Veh (she/her) is a curator, educator, and arts worker based in Silver Spring, MD. As an independent curator, she’s produced dozens of group exhibitions and performances in partnership with artists, non-profits, schools, museums, and DIY venues. For more than a decade, She was a core team member at Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). While there, she helped to implement an artist-organized mission and collaborated with hundreds of artists. Currently, Nathalie continues to manage Wherewithal Grants, part of the Warhol Foundation’s Regional Regranting Program and managed by WPA. Since helping to build the program from the ground up in 2020, she has overseen more than $460,000 in grant distribution to over 160 visual artists in the DC area. Nathalie received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020 and currently teaches in the department, supporting students to develop curatorial projects grounded in research and community.

Investment & Enrollment Options

Redistribution Tier

For those with financial abundance who wish to support wider access.**

Price: $3,000+

2, 4, and 6-month payment plans are available at checkout. All tiers include the full 9-week course, 1:1 support, and critique session. Choose the tier that aligns with your financial reality.

* Barter/trade options available—email [email protected] with “Barter/Trade Winter Greenhouse” in the subject line. Please contact us to discuss your needs

** Redistribution transparency: 50% supports Solidarity Tier participants. 35% compensates facilitators and collaborators. 15% funds future growth efforts (scholarships, resources)

Refund Policy

Because each cohort is intentionally small and carefully designed for group continuity, no refunds are available once the course begins.

Cancellations made before February 2, 2026, may receive a full refund or defer to a future cohort.

If Viridian House must reschedule or cancel due to unforeseen circumstances, all participants will receive a full refund or transfer option.

“We change through our collaborations both within and across species. The important stuff for life on earth happens in those transformations, not in the decision trees of self-contained individuals."

- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins