2025 Epic Award
Winner
The Prairie Ronde Artist Residency and Gallery has won the 2025 Epic Award! This award recognizes programs that enhance life through art and exemplify artistic excellence, dedication and the power of creativity to strengthen community.
Prairie Ronde’s Residency Director, John Kern, sat down with the Creative Café podcast to chat about the award. Hear about the inspiration behind the residency, the relationship between art, community and education, the downtown gallery space and more.
VICKSBURG, MICHIGAN - USA
About the Residency
Prairie Ronde Artist Residency offers artists from a range of disciplines a 5 – 6 week residency in the historic Village of Vicksburg, Michigan. We offer a unique environment for our artists to develop their craft: the 420,000 square foot former Lee Paper Company mill and its adjacent 80 acres of property.
PRAIRIE RONDE AND THE MILL
Prairie Ronde is hosted by The Mill at Vicksburg, a redevelopment project of the former Lee Paper Company mill, whose extensive and ongoing plans focus on sustainability.
Our goal is to bring artists into the space to engage with The Mill’s historic legacy and its monumental transformation.
RECENT ARTISTS
GIBSON + RECODER
Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder produce cinema installations and performances, and have exhibited their work around the world.
BRANDON MORSE
Brandon Morse works with generative systems in order to examine the poetic and metaphorical potential of physical phenomena such as entropy and emergence.
AMI PARK
Ami Park works primarily in textiles and installation. Her practice explores self-awareness, identity and perception, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the human mind, emotions and objects.
GALLERY
