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
Ragdale Foundation
Ragdale was founded on the belief that time and space are not luxuries but necessary elements for creating important new work. Ragdale provides these necessities to artists in the form of two- to eight-week residencies. Add eleven other creative individuals to the mix, acres of idyllic prairie, a family-style dinner each night, and you have Ragdale.
Ragdale artists come from all over the country and around the world to create, write, experiment, research, plan, compose, rejuvenate, brainstorm, and work. The artists' community now hosts over 200 emerging and established artists of all disciplines each year. The residents' uninterrupted time at Ragdale is their own. In this community of unique individuals, Ragdale also offers the possibilities of dialogue and connections with other artists.
Located at the historic summer home of Arts and Crafts architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, Ragdale exists in a peaceful setting adjacent to over fifty acres of prairie. Residents occupy live/work spaces in the Ragdale House, Barnhouse, and Friends' studios. Ragdale is located one mile from downtown