VICKSBURG, MICHIGAN - USA
About the Residency
Prairie Ronde Artist Residency offers artists from a range of disciplines a 5–6 week, place-based experience in the historic Village of Vicksburg, Michigan.
Centered within the former Lee Paper Company paper mill, the program invites artists to work within a 416,000-square-foot industrial site surrounded by 80 acres of land—a landscape shaped by history, scale, and transformation.
New Artist Video
Xingyu Huang
Xingyu Huang, a 2026 Summer Artist-in-Residence at Prairie Ronde, presents They Named the Sky After Stone—a short film shot in the former Lee Paper Mill. Using the “cloud” as a central image—both water vapor and data storage—the film draws a parallel between the mill’s industrial ruins and today’s AI data centers, which consume massive amounts of water and electricity while leaving behind pollution, carbon emissions and arsenic.
A dual-channel soundscape stages a conversation across time between the abandoned mill and artificial intelligence, arriving at the film’s warning: “When a medium becomes invisible, it stops being questioned.”
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
JEREMY MENDE
Jeremy Mende creates immersive, multisensory installations that shape space, light and movement into charged environments.
VIRGINIA MELNYK
Virginia Melnyk is an architectural designer and textile-based artist whose work explores the intersection of soft materials, structure and movement.
ERIN CHARPENTIER AND TRAVIS NEEL
Erin Charpentier and Travis Neel work at the unruly edges of art and urban ecology to explore the possibility of collaborative survival within the weedy entanglements of human-disturbed landscapes.
GALLERY
