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.
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.
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.
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