Mildred’s Lane hosts a unique residency program of intensive, 1-to-4 week “sessions” during the Spring and Summer months.

Session topics and collaborators vary year to year, guided by the Mildred’s Lane Advisory Council. Each session is a unique embodiment of our pedagogical vision, through which hierarchies of teacher/student, institution/individual, artist/nonartist are dissolved. Sessions create a learning environment for creative collaborators to swarm around topics of mutual interest, always in dialogue with the site-specific ecologies of Mildred’s Lane, a 93-acre home and project-site in the deep woods of Pennsylvania.

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.

View current Summer Session for 2026 here.