2020 Arts Retreat Deadline extended

The Arts Residency Program is extending the April 1 deadline to May 1, 2020.  This is for residencies July 2020 through December 2020.  Artists of any discipline can apply: writers, musicians, poets, performers, dancers, and visual artists in all mediums.  We remain...

Arts Retreat Deadline Approaches

Click Here to Apply! Artists! The deadline to submit your application for consideration to visit New York Mills and stay at our Arts Retreat house is Saturday, April 15th. That day fast approaches. Click anywhere on this sentence to go to our application page.   Stay...

Early September Artist In Residence

Robin Rozanski fiction writer Robin writes fiction of all lengths, from flash fiction to novels, usually literary in genre. Exploring themes of mortality and humanity through characterizations of illness or physical deformity, occasionally her work tends toward...

Erasure Poetry Workshop

Rebecca Yates Erasure Poet Artist in Residence, Rebecca Yates, is a writer and erasure poetry artist living in Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in The Found Poetry Review, Damselfly Press, and Really System, among others. She is the founder of Minneapolis Erasures...

Welcome Visiting Artist Ploy Pirapokin

Ploy Pirapokin was born in Thailand and raised in Hong Kong. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (fiction) from San Francisco State University, where she currently teaches as a creative writing lecturer. She also teaches at the Writing Salon in Berkeley. Her fiction...

Visiting Artist March 2015: Dave Mondy

Join us Monday March 23rd at 7:30pm for a Reading & Reception for Dave Inhabiting the retreat house for several weeks in March is Dave Mondy, a Creative Nonfiction Writer from Tucson, AZ. Dave has been lauded for his work in multiple genres: food writing (Best...

Apply Now! Artist Residency Deadline April 1st

FREE Artist Residency Opportunity! The New York Mills Arts Retreat is currently accepting applications for July – December 2015 artist residencies. The Arts Retreat program offers self-funded 2-6 week solo residencies for selected artists in ALL disciplines. A small...

Visiting Artist Nadia Alenov

Visiting Visual Artist Nadia Alenov will be staying in the Cultural Center’s Retreat House January 25th until February 14th. “I am a freelance artist from St. Paul, Minnesota. I began my career in art as a photographer and expanded to including illustration in...

Visiting Artist Jill Kalz Poetry Reading

  Visiting Author Jill Kalz will give a poetry reading, Wednesday October 1st from 7 to 8 pm at the Cultural Center. There is no charge for this event and everyone is welcome! Jill is the author of over 70 children’s books and  has also published...

Visiting artist Katie Rose Pipkin

Taking up residence in the Arts Retreat house during the first part of the summer of 2014 is visual artist Katie Rose Pipkin. During the early part of her residency, she has been focused on her drawings and has been quite productive amidst small town life in New York...

Artist-in-residence Jill Johnson

Visiting artist Jill Johnson will be living in our midst at the Retreat House on South Main Ave in New York Mills for several weeks in April-May 2014.  Jill is a community cultural artist, which means that she researches folk and cultural art forms in Sweden and...

Visiting artist Britt Aamodt

In the retreat house for a short stay in early April is artist Britt Aadmodt from the Twin Cities.  Britt was born on the Chesapeake but migrated to Minnesota, the land of her ancestors. Those ancestors are the source of her tales about the immigrant women and men who...

Arts Retreat residency deadline April 1st

FREE ARTIST RESIDENCY The New York Mills Arts Retreat is currently accepting applications for July – December 2014 artist residencies.  The Arts Retreat program offers self-funded 2-6 week solo residencies for selected artists in all disciplines. A small house...

Piga Project: Women, Immigration, and Resilience

The PIGA project by Jill Johnson The Piga Project creates new forms of folk art as a way to challenge our ideas about culture and belonging.  Researched over a period of two years in Sweden and the US, Johnson’s project also explores questions around the...

Visiting Artist Joel Tomfohr

Occupying the Arts Retreat house during the final two weeks of January is writer Joel Tomfohr.  While here, Joel is editing his novel as well as working on some other writing projects.  He is appreciating the cold in that it makes staying inside to write and edit...

Artist-in-Residence Charles Matson Lume

Residing at the New York Mills Arts Retreat for the first two weeks of January 2014 is Charles Matson Lume, a visual artist from Saint Paul, MN.  While on residency, Charles will be researching winter light and one’s relationship to it. Over the past five years...

December 2013 Visiting Artist

Visiting artist Macelle Mahala is a writer and interdisciplinary theatre and performance artist who currently resides in Stockton, CA. She grew up in the Bemidji area and recalls coming to Cultural Center events with her parents as a teenager. Macelle has worked with...

Visiting Artist Reception & Reading: John Toren

Please join us on Tuesday, October 8th at 7:30pm at the Cultural Center for a Welcome Reception and Reading by current visiting artist John Toren, an author from Minneapolis. John is our artist-in-residence for the first couple of weeks in October. During this casual...

Apply Now! Oct 1 Deadline for Artist Residency

Arts Retreat FREE ARTIST RESIDENCY submissions due October 1, 2013 The New York Mills Arts Retreat is currently accepting applications for January – June 2014 artist residencies. The Arts Retreat program offers self-funded 2-6 week solo residencies for selected...

July Artist in Residence Jesse Longman

Taking up residence in the Arts Retreat house in July is writer and performance artist Jesse Longman from Ridgefield, Connecticut.  Jesse has a BA from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA from Columbia University, and she has been actively developing new work for the...

Visiting artist updates

Our current and past visiting artists have been busy! We, of course, know how great they all are. It sounds like the others are realizing it too. Here are just a few updates from a few recent artists in residence… [Side note: If you are a past visiting artist...

Artist-in-Residence John Noltner

During the last week of June, John Noltner will be the artist-in-residence at the New York Mills Arts Retreat. John’s residency is special in that it coincides with his gallery exhibit currently featured at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, now through...

June Artist in Residence Leslie Merrill

Leslie Merrill is our Arts Retreat visiting artist for two weeks in June. She is a Denver-based choreographer, performer, video artist, and movement educator. During her residency, Leslie will be working on her upcoming interdisciplinary performance work, The 13th and...

Visiting Artist Michael Eble

Michael Eble is the current artist-in-residence at the New York Mills Arts Retreat. He is a painter and currently resides in Morris, MN, where he is an Associate Professor of Studio Art and Curator of the Humanities Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Minnesota,...

Welcome March Artist-in-Residence

Visiting New York Mills in March is Brooke Bullman, a fiction writer from Alabama. Brooke writes about the South, the natural world, and family. Her short fiction has been published in The Louisville Review. While a resident at NYM, Brooke is finalizing a draft of her...

Arts Retreat now accepting applications online

The New York Mills Arts Retreat is now accepting applications online for our artist residency program. This move from mailed or e-mailed applications to ONLINE is a welcome change with multiple benefits. First, artists will be able to complete the application and...

Artist-in-Residence Vivian Hyelim Kim

Joining us for a month-long residency during February and March is Vivian Hyelim Kim from Elmhurst, NY. Vivian is originally from South Korea and has lived in several places throughout the United States from the east coast to the west cost, most recently settling in...

Visiting Artist spends 6 weeks in NYM

The first visiting artist of 2013 was Agenor Martí Fernández from Miami, Florida. Born in Havana, Cuba, Agenor paints and draws, and has a particular interest in maps. He has traveled extensively and spent a 3 year period living in Finland. During his residency,...

October 2012 Artist-in-Residence

Visiting Artist Mark Pagan Mark Pagan has traveled from Washington DC to spend the month of October in NYM, working on his narrative short film “Raymond & Lina” which looks at the lives of a man and his granddaughter. This 11-minute short film received acceptance...

Artist-in-residence during September

Visiting Artist for September Joining us for the last 2½ weeks in September is Cheryl Bannes, a mixed media artist from Lewistown, Montana. Cheryl is inspired to interpret the landscape and the natural shapes that she sees around her and create them in metal, paint,...

Volunteer at the Center

Volunteers are truly amazing.  Volunteer labor helped make the renovation of the two-story gallery building possible with limited financial resources.  And all along the 22 year history of the Center volunteers have brought the vision of the Center to life.  There...