— Visitor Center Artist Camp —

Wild Clay Workshop Residency: $1000 (included instructions, demos and 1-on-1 project guidance for harvesting and creating with the local clay, firings in electric, gas and wood barrel kilns)
Independent Project Residency Fee: $800 (includes shared work space and use of electricity in the studio barn and the A-frame, shop tool and basic supplies, local transportation, miles of hiking trails through the forest, access to a variety of spaces for installation art and land art, various quiet writing, reading, drawing and meditation spaces including in a comfortable refurbished hinting blind, a stage in the woods and a gorgeous grove of Aspens with benches to sit on

Fee covers all meals, access to camping grounds, water, solar-shower, composting outhouses, workspaces, special presentations and discussion
Field trips to swim, hike and visit areas of cultural interest
Participation in a one-day art festival and public clay workshop
100 acres of land next to Ottawa National Forest
Optional professional artist-staff members are there to provide guidance and to support
Harvest wild clay on-site for pottery and sculpture
Build with locally harvested and locally milled lumber
Use local and natural and reclaimed materials whenever possible