Each year, artists from around the world are awarded the gift of time + space—a one-month residency on our 583-acre ranch in northern California’s Santa Cruz Mountains.Photo Credit: Chris Schmauch
We Trust Artists
The region is world-famous for technological innovation. We believe that art must also innovate, disrupt, inspire, challenge and change lives. The work undertaken here shapes the world’s culture. Photo Credit: Robert Buelteman
The Land Inspires
We enjoy a mythical renown among artists—many of whom talk about the Djerassi “magic.” Here, in a setting of extraordinary natural beauty, artists can just BE—to dream, dare, collaborate and create.Photo Credit: Eva Davidova
Time + Space
There are no small dreams and no small dreamers here. In their studios, choreographers imagine dances, writers generate words, composers see notes and visual artists create images.
Photo Credit: Jordan Reznick
Shaping Culture Worldwide
Ideas are shared around the dinner table. Collaborations erupt organically. Work that couldn’t have existed any other way takes shape, catches fire, and becomes real.Photo Credit: Minoosh Zomorodinia
Overheard
Djerassi is like a private national park, a hemispherical view of beauty…an iconic California experience.