Writing and Visual Arts Residencies / Residencies
Deadline
February 15, 2020
Organization Name: Mineral School
Organization Location: Mineral, WA
Type: Residencies
Fee: $25
Discipline:
During 2020, we will offer residency to a total of 20 creative people — 14-16 writers and four to six visual artists. We’ll host four two-week residency periods for a total of 12 writers/artists and one special one-week residency period for four parent artists in September.
Residency dates are as follows:
May 10-May 24, 2020 (all genres)
June 14-June 28, 2020 (all genres)
July 19-August 2, 2020 (all genres)
August 16-August 30, 2020 (all genres)
September 11-September 19, 2020 (parent artists only)
We provide accepted applicants with space and time to create new work without the interruptions of normal life and with the bonus of healthy meals prepared by culinary volunteers, with menus designed to accommodate residents’ food challenges and including as much local and organic food as we can reasonably source. Past volunteer chefs have included organic farmers, graduate nutrition students from Bastyr University and Colorado-based dietetics programs, as well as food-savvy board members and artistic nomads with chef skills. We proudly invest in local, organic produce and eggs from Frey Family Farm.
During each residency, we host visiting artists at presentations open to the public. Additionally, during each residency period we hold a resident reading/art sharing evening — this is not mandatory, but it’s a fun way to share new work with the local community and gather feedback from fresh eyes and ears.
Each resident lives in an 800-square foot former classroom that offers peekaboo views of Mineral Lake and Mt. Rainier, and that will double as a writing studio, with desk and chair, lighting, bookcase, etc. Visual artist residents may improvise a studio anywhere on the grounds (including the room they sleep in — which has worked well for graphic novelists and pen-and-ink artists), work plein air in the area, or use the gym or covered patio as studio space. The main school building has bathrooms with showers. Residents are served all meals. The town of Mineral features a swimmable fishing lake, a tavern, a historic bed & breakfast, a general store, two churches, many free-range deer, and a post office. It’s a 25-minute drive to the Ashford/Nisqually entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park.
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