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.
$5 Movie Night: Wasp Woman
Join us for a featured showing of Wasp Woman!
Whispered Lullaby
Ian McEdwards
Ian McEdwards, an old friend of Prairie Ronde, recently returned to Vicksburg to perform an original composition in the golden-hour light inside The Mill at Vicksburg.
A talented clarinetist and contemporary musician, Ian is currently pursuing his master’s at Yale and is the current and founding clarinetist of SOLARIS—a collective committed to bridging contemporary-classical and popular music.
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
SHONDA BUCHANAN
Kalamazoo, Michigan native Shonda Buchanan is the author of the award-winning memoir, Black Indian, chosen by PBS NewsHour as a “Top 20 books to read to learn about institutional racism.”
SAMMY BENNETT
Sammy Bennett is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates painting, printmaking, textiles, and found objects to examine his lived experiences across rural and urban environments.
NICOLE BANOWETZ & DEVIN REILLY
Nicole and Devin find fascinating and beautiful organisms in the natural world to recreate into wearable and inflatable sculptures which they photograph out in the environment or use in surreal performances.
NEWS
Vicksburg’s Liberty Lane Becomes an Art Gallery this Summer
Nine augmented reality pieces by WMU students are on view along Liberty Lane in downtown Vicksburg through September 8, 2026.
Prairie Ronde Recognized for the Art of Place-Making
Led by John Kern, the Prairie Ronde Artist Residency has become a cultural force in the Village of Vicksburg.
Prairie Ronde Draws International Artists to The Mill at Vicksburg
The historic Lee Paper Mill has become an international destination for artists through the Prairie Ronde Artist Residency.
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