Prairie Ronde Artist Residency wins award

by | Dec 2025 | Community

Frances Li and John Kern.

John Kern and Frances Li of the Prairie Ronde Artist Residency in Vicksburg have won an Epic Award from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.

Kern is residency director and director of creative programming and innovation for The Mill at Vicksburg. Li is Prairie Ronde Artist Residency’s coordinator and one of the Residency’s earliest artists in residence.

The award recognizes organizations or programs of high artistic quality that enhance life in our community through the arts. It honors both long-standing programs and new initiatives that meet previously unmet needs.

A celebration of all award recipients will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9, in the Lake Auditorium on the Texas Township campus of Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

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