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
Prairie Center of the Arts
At Prairie Center of the Arts, artists and other creative people will find both a contemplative rural retreat and access to a 120 year old rope factory: an expanse of raw space for installation not readily available to them.
The residency program is open to artists working in a variety of disciplines, including all visual art forms; installation, conceptual, performance, and culinary arts; music; literature and poetry; and architecture. Readings, exhibitions, and installations are encouraged as a means of connecting with local artists and citizens.
The Center is centrally located in the Land of Lincoln and in the magnificent Illinois River Valley, less than three hours from Chicago and St. Louis. Studios are housed in an urban, industrial environment near the Illinois River. The main facility is a historic rope factory, while Warehouse Gallery One is a 6,000-square-foot space used for meetings, exhibitions, and installations. The Prairie Center home in Germantown Hills sits on 50 wooded acres, just 20 minutes from the studio facilities, and serves as the residency retreat.