At our gatherings, artists come together to (a) share works in progress, (b) discuss their project’s preoccupying puzzles, experiments, failures, mysteries, messiness, challenges, and vision, and (c) collaboratively identify strategies, insights, resources, and possible avenues for exploration and invention. The gatherings yield a wealth of collective knowledge and expertise as expressed by eagerness to both give and receive assistance from our colleagues and peers. Rather than a place to present polished, formal, completed works with pressures of perfection or prestige, Comrade Truebridge is an incubator and sanctuary for artists to step outside the realm of marketplace and to share the more intimate aspects of art making, both absurd and sublime.