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Performance with Ben Cosgrove

← Zoom Q&A with Areca Roe

Workshop with Ele Edreva →

Recent Happenings

“Had a chance to visit the Tallgrass Prairie Nat

“Had a chance to visit the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve over the weekend, wholly unlike anywhere else I’ve ever traveled. Shared the Windmill Pasture with roaming bison. Meditated on the words of poet Denise Low: “The tallgrass prairie stirs the imagination not because it is empty, but because it is vast.” – from her essay “Touching the Sky.”” – Daniel Kessel

"My first morning waking up in the Flint Hills, an

"My first morning waking up in the Flint Hills, and I'm honored and grateful to begin my time with the Tallgrass Artist Residency. The prairie is a dramatic shift from my usual daily life in New Jersey/New York, but this region also forms an important part of my family's history. Walking through the fields, feeling the wind on my skin, hearing the intermittent freight trains, I'm already struck by the magic of reconnecting with this landscape." – Daniel Kessel

Welcome to our last resident of the year, Daniel K

Welcome to our last resident of the year, Daniel Kessel, who will be here through our Fall Gathering on Saturday, October 1. Come down and close out the year with us.

We’ve moved our application cycle up for 2023 — open now through the end of October. For a sense of how artists use the residency, check out reflections and Q&A recordings from past years on our website, or better yet join us for the Fall Gathering in Matfield Green on October 1 to hear from this year’s artists.

Two weeks away from our annual Fall Gathering in M

Two weeks away from our annual Fall Gathering in Matfield Green. We hope you’ll join us for a full day of events including Community Open Studios organized by @matfieldgreenworks, pie, coffee, and reception at @schoolforruralculture, with talks by @arinyoon, @corymckague, @agrantho, @jeremiah_ariaz_studio, @leslievonh, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, & Daniel Kessel, locally sourced dinner, music by Kelly & Diana Werts, Susan Mayo, & @rklassenmusic, and a bonfire at @matfieldstation. Detailed schedule on our website and Facebook.

"Sometimes you get to see strands of a spider web

"Sometimes you get to see strands of a spider web dance in the breeze at sunset. Something you might have walked through, by, if you didn't stop to notice. Sometimes that sunset is endless."—Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

"Some of our most profound experiences were not on

"Some of our most profound experiences were not on land, but in water. Swimming most days, having swum since I was one month old, each return to the water reminded of the vastness we experienced everywhere. How to sit with that, rock, be swayed."—Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

"Sometimes one is pulled joyfully in multiple dire

"Sometimes one is pulled joyfully in multiple directions, each seeking our attention. Sometimes it okay to delight in the dizziness, before choosing where to land and fix one's gaze."—Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

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