Today we’d like to introduce you to Krista Detor. She and her team share their story with us below:
Krista Detor is an award-winning Musician, Composer, & Writer. She’s been recognized by the Indiana Legislature for Contributions to the Arts, featured in international musical collaborations in England, Ireland, Holland, and India, as well as multiple U.S. collaborations, including the Emmy-nominated PBS special, ‘Wilderness Plots,’ a tale of the settling of the Ohio River Valley based on the book by the same name by lauded author Scott Russell Sanders.
Her work has been called, ‘A Small Miracle..’ by Rolling Stone, and has been critically hailed internationally. Her husband David Weber is an award-winning producer/engineer and owner of Airtime Recording Studios – the recording home of some of the country’s finest musicians, including Straight No Chaser, among others – which is also located on-site at The Hundredth Hill.
The duo toured Europe and the U.S. from 2005 to 2020, when they were grounded by the pandemic. In August of 2020, they launched The Hundredth Hill Artist Residence, including a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, on their 50-acre farm, by hosting a group of NYU graduates in staging what would be the only live traditional theatre experience anywhere in the country at the time.
The Hundredth Hill has since been featured in Forbes, Broadway World, and the Washington Post, among others, and in the past two years artists-in-residence have included Actor/Producer Andre Royo (of ‘The Wire’), Neuroanatomist and best-selling author, Jill Bolte Taylor; Lauded midwestern painter Wyatt LeGrand; Award-winning Aerialist/Actress/Director Dreya Weber; and investigative journalist (The Nation, Washington Post, et.al.) Jason Vest.
In addition, The Hill has hosted playwrights, novelists, poets, painters, musicians, ceramicists, and academics from across the country. Among their advisory board are actor/playwright Jesse Eisenberg and Smithsonian inductee, painter WonSook Kim.
In addition to providing residencies for artists and studio space for composers and musicians, The Hundredth Hill is also a retreat space/center for individuals or organizations to garner inspiration in our (4) individual guest residences, performance/event barn, and 50-acre wooded expanse, which features a 24′ outdoor stage and hanging geodesic pod with incredible views of the hundred sunset hills.
The Hundredth Hill is Detor and Weber’s response to a world in need of imaginative solutions to deep social and environmental crises. Decor and Weber work to foster the artistic visions of cross-genre and generational artists by providing them with space and resources, so that they might creatively facilitate human ingenuity, understanding, and sustainability, atop a beautiful, rolling ridge of hills and valleys.
In the short time since the 2020 launch, artists-in-residence have included Actor/Producer Andre Royo (of ‘The Wire’), Neuroanatomist and best selling author, Jill Bolte Taylor; Lauded midwestern painter Wyatt LeGrand; Award-winning Aerialist/Actress/Director Dreya Weber; and investigative journalist (The Nation, Washington Post, et.al.) Jason Vest. In June of 2023, The Hundredth Hill will launch the first of its subsidized Summer Arts Camps for children ages 12-15.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The arts always include struggle – if in no other way than the intrinsic conflict and resolution inherent in the process of creation. Raising a blended family while maintaining a steady international tour schedule presented incredible challenges, but also incredible opportunities and successes. The experience of seeing the world and fostering relationships across the globe was priceless.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I’m known predominately as a singer/songwriter, with a catalog of several albums, all of which are critically acclaimed nationally and internationally (http://www.kristadetor.com) for reference to quotes/articles/covers.
I’m proud of all of my work, perhaps most proud of my inclusion in the Darwin Songhouse in 2010, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in his hometown, among 7 other songwriters in an album project that resulted in ‘Clock of the World’ – a piece of mine that has been covered by numerous other artists and national/international choirs.
I’m proud, as well, of ‘Wilderness Plots,’ – a collaborative songwriting project which resulted in 2 Emmy-nominated PBS specials, and a beautifully realized album of songs inspired by the short stories of College of Arts & Letters inductee, Author Scott Russell Sanders. What sets me apart is perhaps my ability to straddle the worlds of production and creation – which has made ‘The Hundredth Hill’ possible.
What makes you happy?
I’m most happy immersed in the pink light of late summer afternoons, in the company of family, friends, and other artists, feeling the inspiration of the natural world and hearing the music inherent in the life we’re surrounded by. Being in a state of creative inspiration is unequaled. It’s the best drug there is. If a song, or a painting, or a line of poetry emerges, everything else falls away… every worry, every stressor, every imagined trouble. everything
Pricing:
- $150/night in season retreat in a private residence at The Hundredth Hill
- $105/night winter retreat in a private residence at The Hundredth Hill
Contact Info:
- Website: http://www.thehundredthhill.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/thehundredthhill
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehundredthhill
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3kfXEDtAcnfa3UpeoTWRFA
- Other: http://www.kristadetor.com | http://www.airtimestudios.com
Image Credits
Jessica Zuniga, Wyatt LeGrand, Anna Strout, Jane Daniels, and Kent Miller
