Creative Arts as a Career & Travelers New Orleans Hotel

To wrap up Season 1, I’m joined by the fabulous Hannah Richter, a founding artist in residence at Travelers New Orleans hotel. Hannah offers us the inside scoop on what it’s like to live and work at Travelers New Orleans, an artist-run hospitality venture in the heart of New Orleans, after she stumbled upon it by chance. As outlined in the recent NYT real estate article linked here, artists run the hotel in exchange for housing, studio space, and creation time without the traditional constraints placed on artists. In this episode, Hannah speaks to her fascination with the magic of the day-to-day world, and how this drew her to the arts growing up. She describes how uncovering her passion for reading and writing led her to study creative writing and English at Washington University in St. Louis and she delves into her thoughts on the pressure to churn out content as opposed to creating art for art’s sake. 

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More here on Travelers New Orleans:

Check out the NYT article: ‘In New Orleans, an Art Break Hotel: A new inn called Travelers New Orleans gives artists a roof, studio space and pocket money in exchange for some help around the house’Visit Travelers New Orleans Hotel’s website to learn more and book your next stay in New Orleans!

Artists & Creators mentioned in this episode (Miami, FL):

Karen Russel: Author of Sleep Donation, Orange World, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Swamplandia!, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by WolvesKelly Link: Author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty MonstersLauren Groff: Author of Florida, Fates and Furies, Arcadia, Matrix, The Monsters of Templeton Jeff Vander Meer: Hummingbird Salamander, Ambergris, A Peculiar Peril, Dead Astronauts, The Strange Bird, Borne, Area X, Acceptance, Authority, Annihilation

Music overlay by Scott Holmes Music, scottholmesmusic.com