Anderson Center at Tower View Artist Residency Program
The Anderson Center’s signature artist residency program is open to emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, musicians, performance artists, scholars, translators and more based anywhere in the world. The program aims to meet the needs of artists while welcoming them into a supportive and inspiring residency environment that allows them to minimize distractions, focus in on creative work, and develop a strong sense of community and place while engaging in creative production.
Each resident is provided room, board, and workspace in the historic Tower View residence. Other workspaces on-site include visual arts studios, a writing studio atop a 100’ water tower, an open-air metalsmith facility, a dark room, and a print studio. Artists are provided with chef-prepared communal dinners and groceries, as well access to the historic campus and beautiful natural areas surrounding it.
The Artist Residency Program is an ideal fit for artists whose work reveals a significant potential for cultural and community impact, is technically accomplished, and engages diverse communities. The organization believes that the environment and resources of Tower View, along with an exchange of ideas between artists working across disciplines, can serve as a catalyst for new inspiration and innovative directions for the work artists create while in residence.
163 Tower View Dr
Red Wing, MN 55066
United States
Residency Program Information
Residency Program Summary
Application Information
Open to emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, musicians, performance artists, scholars, translators and more based anywhere in the world. The program is interdisciplinary, and the organization welcomes applications from a wide range of creative and intellectual genres, including those that don't fit neatly into the above list.
Artists are responsible for their own travel to Red Wing, MN. The Anderson Center picks up and drops off artists at the MSP airport and the Red Wing Amtrak Train Depot.
Applications must be submitted via the online form at theandersoncenter.submittable.com
There is no fee to participate. Artists are responsible for their own travel to Red Wing or the MSP airport.
Accessibility
Housing & Accomodation
The Tower View Residence, where artists-in-residence stay, features several common/communal spaces, including a living room, formal dining room, eat-in kitchen, screened-in porch, and three libraries.
Studio & Facilities
Workspaces on-site include visual arts studios, a writing studio atop a 100’ water tower, an open-air metalsmith facility, a dark room, and a print studio (with a Vandercook 219 letterpress and a Charles Brand-like etching press).
The Printmaking Studio can only be made available to artists with experience working with printmaking equipment. A teaching artist for either the etching press or the letterpress provides orientation for the equipment only. /Artists must demonstrate printmaking experience in their application and include information regarding goals for that studio space.