Artist Residency

Misty Hollow is a 25+ acre private artist residency on the Slippery Rock Creek, close to McConnell’s Mill State Park, Moraine State Park, Camp Allegheny, and the Monastery of the Transfiguration. Asia Ward, the lead artist, created Misty Hollow in 2024 as a three year research project for her artistic practice. In 2027 Misty Hollow will transition into an organization. The goal of Misty Hollow is to provide space for artists and other disciplines to engage the land and its resources in a sustainable way by creating ephemeral or artifact driven projects on the property. Misty Hollow provides unique opportunities for the public to experience the land through invite only or event based projects.

Current Artist in Residence

Artist Lindsey Peck Scherloum will engage the public in the making of a collective Monument to interconnection (still working on a specific title), each person creating a small figure out of clay gathered from earth that surrounds Slippery Rock Creek.  The audience will be prompted to consider their relationship to the Creek, to their community, and to write or think a small prayer for our future, or statement of intention as they create. The figures will be collected and assembled among the springs and running water that feed Slippery Rock Creek at Misty Hollow, eroding over time into the water and the creek and washing into it the meaning each has been imbued by its creator.