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WITS 2024 Residents Announced!
In partnership with and with support from Seattle Arts & Lectures, which administers Seattle’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program that brings working artists into kids’ classrooms, Mineral School is excited to host a special “winter break” residency session for four remarkable, deserving artists who spend time in schools helping nurture creativity among youth. For…
2023-2024 Residents Announced!
We made it to our eighth year! Mineral School, the “little residency that could” located in a former elementary school in a logging and fishing lake town near Mt. Rainier, is proud to announce artists invited to join the Class of 2023-2024. In a competitive process that drew 218 applicants from throughout the United…
2020 Residents Announced!
We made it to year six — in time for a pandemic! Nonetheless, Mineral School, the “little residency that could” located in a former elementary school in a lake town near Mt. Rainier, is proud to announce The Class of 2020. In a competitive process that drew 238 applicants from throughout the United States and…
2019 Residents Announced!
Mineral School made it to year five! In a competitive process that drew 320 applicants from throughout the United States and Canada, a panel of five Northwest writers, two filmmakers, and four artists — including three Mineral alumni — have selected a total of 20 talented writers and visual artists who will live and work in…
2018 Residents Announced!
We made it to year four! In a competitive process that drew 246 applicants from throughout the United States and Canada, a panel of five Northwest writers and four artists have blindly selected 12 talented literary writers and four visual artists who will live and work in Mineral this summer, advancing their work in poetry, memoir,…
2017 Residents Announced!
We made it to year three! In a competitive process that drew 238 applicants from throughout the United States as well as Canada, our jury made up of Northwest writers blindly read submissions. They selected 18 literary writers who will come live and work for two-week stints in Mineral this summer, advancing their work in…
Here’s to History with Janet Oakley!
We were fortunate to host Janet Oakley this past week, whose area of expertise is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) logging camps which operated in the 1930s and were responsible for providing young men with jobs and for creating park, road, and trail infrastructure. Mineral had its own CCC camp at the end of what…
Mineral School and Roxy Theater host Janet Oakley
Janet Oakley visit pays homage to local CCC logging history Morton, Washington – Fire Mountain Arts Council and Mineral School, with support from Humanities Washington, will on November 5 present multiple events devoted to celebrating the region’s rich logging history at the Roxy Theater. There, Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC) expert Janet Oakley will present a…
Mineral Movement Lab on July 3
Mineral School and Bennyroyce Dance Productions, a New York City-based contemporary dance company led by Juilliard-trained dancer and choreographer Bennyroyce Royon, have partnered to produce and present Mineral Movement Lab. Mineral Movement Lab is an intensive five-day movement laboratory from June 29 through July 3, in which Bennyroyce Royon and four dancers he selected from…
Eric Taylor and The Drop Shadows!
We’ve been busy getting Mineral School ready for three very special guests: On Saturday, June 21, Texas singer-songwriter Eric Taylor (that’s him on the left) will play for us at an informal dinner concert, with Texas-influenced Seattle duo The Drop Shadows (that’s them, Jeanine Walker and Steve Mauer, on the right) opening. We can’t wait to…