Vital Arts, located on Hebron Hollow Farm, is a center for arts and ideas. Co-founded by Kimerer LaMothe and Geoffrey Gee, Vital Arts exists to support creative work in all media and every individual.

Its location on a farm is central to this mission: art that is vital is art that affirms life. It is art that awakens our senses to our utter dependence on the natural world, and inspires us to create the mutually-enabling relationships we need in order to unfold what we have to give.

Create to live. At Vital Arts, we believe that every human being creates to live, and necessarily so. We are born bodies, unfinished, and must discover, over time, what nourishes us. We must discover for ourselves what gives us the sense of meaning and purpose we need to thrive.

As we do, we form relationships with the people, places, and things that sustain us. We create patterns of movement in ourselves— towards what gives us pleasure, away from what doesn’t. In the process, we become these patterns of sensing and responding we are creating. We become people who think and feel and act in these ways. We create ourselves.

Live to create. While all humans create to live, we may also, if we choose, live to create. When we live to create, we dedicate ourselves to exploring the possibilities of our creativity—the freedom that it offers us for forming relationships with ourselves, each other, and the natural world, that support the well being of us all.

At Vital Arts, our aim is it to create sensory experiences--in word, movement, and sound—that express the value and importance of unfolding our creative selves. Our work invites new perspectives on the relationships we, as individuals and cultures, are creating in the world.

In this way, our work expresses the life we are living here on the farm. As we educate our senses to the rhythms of the natural world, we are learning to discern what our bodies know.