Midwestern Voices and Visions is a collaboration between the Alliance of Artists Communities and seven artists' residency programs in the Midwest. Each site offers its own way of serving its artists-in-residence, though all share a common vision that supporting living artists with time and space to create new work is essential to human progress.

Click on the names below to read more about each program:

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Red Wing, Minnesota

Art Farm
Marquette, Nebraska

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, Nebraska

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Ox-Bow
Saugatuck, Michigan

Prairie Center of the Arts
Peoria, Illinois

Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, Illinois

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Anderson Center’s Tower View estate has been a familiar Minnesota landmark for almost a century, with its distinctive Georgian Revival buildings and water tower (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) and 330 acres of farm and forest land. Since its founding in 1995, it has been the mission of the Center to uphold the unique wealth of the arts in the region; to develop, foster, and promote the creation of works of art and scholarship of all kinds; and to provide leadership and services that help to insure a strong and healthy arts community and a greater recognition of the value of arts in our society.

Anderson Center provides retreats of two to four weeks to enable those of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to advance works-in-progress. Since the Center opened, scores of visual artists, writers, and scholars from more than 40 states and 25 countries have been in-residence. The Center also engages in artist exchange programs with organizations in Europe and China and has scholarship programs with the University of Notre Dame, Pacific Lutheran University, and the University of Minnesota.

Artists-in-residence are asked to make a substantive contribution to the community in the form of a talk, class, or performance of their work, and each year Center residents reach more than 1,700 people through visits to schools, senior centers, civic organizations, and correctional facilities in the Greater Red Wing area. The Anderson Center also hosts a variety of artistic, educational, and cultural activities, showcasing the work of more than 250 visual artists, writers, and musicians each year, with over 6,000 people from the Upper Midwest attending Center events.

With one of the finest art collections in rural Minnesota, including works by Picasso, Chagall, Dalí, and other 20th-Century masters, as well as one of the region’s largest outdoor sculpture gardens, the Anderson Center is also home to more than a dozen working artists – sculptors, painters, potters, poets, glassblowers, and printmakers – who maintain year-round studio space at the Center.

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