2025 Epic Award
Winner
The Prairie Ronde Artist Residency and Gallery has won the 2025 Epic Award! This award, granted by the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, 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.
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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
AKIKO YAMAMOTO
Akiko Yamamoto is a Japanese-born, Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores the fragmented nature of migration, identity, and cultural translation.
JOHANNA PAAS
Johanna Paas is a Michigan-based artist who creates two-dimensional works inspired by the shapes, patterns, and textures found in nature.
XINGYU HUANG
Xingyu Huang is a Chicago and Los Angeles–based artist working across sculpture, architecture, and digital media.
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