BEING AT MILDRED’S LANE
Overnight Stays / Residency Sessions / Retreats / Workshops / Events / Tours / Collecting / Shop
We are now opening the site to individuals interested in historical exploration, contemporary art, collecting, and sustainable living practices in the 21st century.
For twenty-seven years, Mildred’s Lane has been a meeting ground and crossroads for landscape interventions by renowned multidisciplinary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. During the summer, Mildred’s Lane hosts educational workshops where artists engage with and enact research-driven and critically engaged contemporary ideas that produce collaborative transhistorical artworks. Educational institutions send fellows to participate in these sessions to rethink human engagement with the non-human world around us through creative and environmentally sustainable practices for living on this delicate planet – inherent in the curriculum is the practice called WORKSTYLES.
OVERNIGHT STAYS
Overnight stays are open for bookings. The main lodge house is situated in the meadow and has sensuous rooms full of collections and curiosities. The library is an epic experience with a stone fireplace, collections of nonfiction and fiction, and hundreds of books about all the artists who have convened there over the years. The kitchen laboratory is a fantastical installation of equipment that allows you to create your own Digestion Choreography.
It is an unprecedented opportunity to view and stay in the spaces artists have created for decades. The landscape is smattered with restored and recreated 17th—and 18th-century farm buildings, glamping tents, small shacks, and campfire sites; hence, you feel the patina of centuries yet are inspired by contemporary artist practitioners who have left their mark. The walls are full of contemporary artworks permeating the main lodge house. Forests, fields, ponds, and streams are nestled in the middle of the woods near the Delaware River. The Hamlet of Narrowsburg, NY, is within walking distance, with more shopping/collecting experiences and fine dining throughout the year.
Plan your own private retreat with friends or come alone for your own private residency. The site is open through the fall for day visits and tours.
RESIDENCY SESSIONS / RETREATS / WORKSHOPS
Mildred’s Lane hosts a unique residency program of intensive, 1-to-4 week “sessions” during the Spring/Summer/Fall months. See descriptions of this summer’s residency sessions here.
The model for residency sessions has been developed over more than two decades of experimental social practice at Mildred’s Lane, and the format of each session remains variable and project-specific. Participants in a session become integral collaborators in its final form.
Read more about residency sessions at Mildred’s Lane here.
Mildred’s Lane also welcomes proposals for residencies or workshops and inquiries for private retreats. Contact us if you are interested in leading a residency session or workshop or arranging a retreat on the site: complexity@mildredslane.org
EVENTS / TOURS
Mildred’s Lane invites you to join us for events or day visits we host throughout the year: Town Friday, Social Saturday, Day Visits
Town Friday is a free public events hosted at or around our Mildred Complex(ity) Field Office on Main Street in Narrowsburg, New York. Featuring collaborators from our residency sessions, visiting artists, and partner organizations!
Social Saturday is an event series that has been taking place for almost two decades, encompassing a late-afternoon guest lecture/presentation and a dinner. We host ticketed Social Saturday dinners to support our summer residency program. Introducing a sliding-scale ticket structure, attendance will directly support the honoraria of Resident Artists-in-Complexity, session collaborators, and visiting artists. We hope you join us this summer for these wonderful dinner garden parties on site!
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Day Visits Pending availability, it is possible to enroll by the day in our residency sessions and programs. Day enrollment is generally from 10:00AM to 7:00 PM, later if there is a lecture scheduled. This includes a tour, activities, and meals, including supper. Enrollment costs directly support our program collaborators and the paid Resident Artists-in-Complexity administrating the busy summer.
Please email us to inquire about a Day Visit or Site Tour: complexity@mildredslane.org
COLLECTING / SHOP
The Department of Interstitchiaries is a tribute to our rich history, now showcasing and selling selections from the archives of J. Morgan Puett Clothing from the eighties and nineties, Tivoli Tile works Crow Ware by Caroline Wallner, Mark Dion prints, Alastair Gordon paintings, and a collection of rare artist books – all for sale. Your visit will inspire your creative soul and benefit the newly formed Mildred’s Lane Inc., a 501(c)3 organization—a clean and sustainable way to support art and ecology.
Shop the Mildred’s Lane Collect online!
Contact us to make an appointment to view collections, book overnight stays, or visit for a day and explore!
RATES
Glamping and Cabins: $175 – $225 / Main Lodge Rooms: $300 – $375
Two-night minimum, continental breakfast included.
Tours: $25 per person
Negotiable Groups Rates
Some amenities for groups include:
Barn Lyceum
DoI/Quonset Facility
85” digital screen plus other technology
Natural and Antique household textiles
Several indoor and outdoor cooking and dining options
Pond Activities
Nat’l Park Forrest access
Nearby Delaware River access
Nearby Narrowsburg, NY cultural hamlet
Image: The Quonset Building at Mildred’s Lane, PA. An installation radically set deep in the Pennsylvania woods, The Department of Interstitcharies is a provisional unit that transforms into an exhibition/performance space, retail environment, and studio facility offering endless possibilities for art and production