2025-2026 writer and artist residencies

Mineral Arts & Residencies (formerly Mineral School) is an artists residency founded in a former 1947 elementary school near Mt. Rainier, in Mineral, Washington. During 2025 and the first half of 2026, we'll host 32 creative people during six sessions ranging from one to two weeks in length, providing them with time, space, nutritious food, community, and access to the outdoors as well as the wild and wonderful energy of the region. (We'll also host four artists on an invitational basis via a partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program; WITS writers need not complete this application.)

2025-2026 RESIDENCY DATES

Residency sessions will be held during the following time periods:

• September 13-September 21, 2025 (All genres)
• September 28-October 5, 2025 (All genres; with four folks at the school and six folks at the Mineral Lake Lodge)
• October 12-October 26, 2025 (All genres; with four folks at the school and two at the Jimmy Beech House in Ashford)
• November 2-November 16, 2025 (All genres)
• March 8-March 22, 2026 (All genres)
• April 5-April 19, 2026 (All genres)