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JUNE:Fine Arts Camp EXPLORE
A Fine Arts Youth Camp
Brings Teaching Artists
to the ridge
Featuring:
*Gesture Drawing
*Cyanotypes
*Mural Painting
*Zine Making
*Collage
*Screen Printing
*Watercolor Still Life
*Documentary Filmmaking
*Hikes, Foraging, Plant ID
Thanks to the Jan Ryan Youth Artist Fund, we can provide full and partial scholarships to any camper who needs one!
JUNE 8th - 12th, teaching artists from Bloomington, Cincinnati, & Chicago create a unique, outdoor fine arts day camp culminating in a Special Exhibit at the Pillar Arts Gallery in Simon Mall on June 13th!
2026 Spotlights
 Jan-MarOur annual, fully-funded winter writing residencies draw writers of all stripe |  JanuaryA month-long residency drawn on parents' stories results in a critically-acclaimed composition |  FebruaryIndiana songwriters & composers collaborate with PBS at The Hundredth Hill |
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 April - MayA multi-talented artist and actress brings her songwriting vision to life at The Hundredth Hill |  MayA Poet and an Avantgarde Jazz Composer in Indiana's New York Minute |  April - MayWise Panic: An experimental think tank in response to the global polycrises |
2025 Spotlights
 January-MarchDeep Winter Writing Residencies run January-March annually |  AprilQuarterly Challenge: 9 songwriters and visual artists create 9 pieces in 12 hours |  MayResilience Poetry Residency |
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 May 24thPoetry Walk with the poets in residence, including Melan Ali, Kourtney Jones, & Molly Kirschner |  JulyA poetry and movement workshop grounded in somatic practices and relationship to the land |  June 9-13Camp Tree-O's theatre camp and performance |
June 28thQuarterly 9 x 9 Song & Art Challenge - This time 12 art & song makers divise 9 pieces in 9 hours |  Mid AugustA residency & performances with Frank Ferrante |  SeptemberDublin painter Donna McGee bringing Irish landscape spirit to Indiana hills |
 Late AugustSpellbinding solo show is workshopped enroute to NYC from Dreya Weber |  SeptemberKrista Detor and a band of hundredth hill regulars open the 2025 Lotus Festival |  OctoberStorytelling extravaganza on the Hundredth Hill |
NovemberQuarterly 9 x 9 Art Challenge |  DecemberAcclaimed classical guitarist Alec Holcolm on a creative sabbatical |
2024 Spotlights
 January-MarchDeep Winter Writers Residencies Return |  MarchActivist Tanya Selveratnam Speaks |  MayLike-minded writers gather for reflection |
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 JuneA Summer Arts Camp |  SeptemberInaugural Bloom Magazine writers residency |  OctoberThe Proxies, a young Indie Folk Duo out of London, in residency in preparation for their first EP |
 NovemberSponsored Event: Hundredth Hill Alumni honor the memory of the legendary indigenous jazz composer Jim Pepper |  DecemberFundraiser Theatrical event: Krista Detor's Holiday Show |
2023 Spotlights
 January - MarchDeep Winter Writing Residencies run January-March annually |  MayNashville-based Hawktail band was in residence recording Carrie Newcomer’s album, ‘A Great Wild Mercy’ |  JuneMichael Casselli Assoc. Prof. of Sculpture/ Installation, Director of the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College, Ohio, and Bessie Award winner |
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 JulyMcKenya Dilworth is a Playwright, Director, and Educator based in Gary, Indiana. A Purdue Society of Innovators Inductee, she's in development of emerging theatre piece, 'Antinika.' |  SeptemberTaos, NM-based HH Alum, Chloe Caemmerer returns with her new project Dandelioness for a month of songwriting, community building, and creative rejuvenation |  October6 Indiana songwriters + 6 national songwriters = _________________________ 12 songwriters from across the nation write 20 songs each in 12 hours! |
 AugustIt's That Minute: A sold-out spectacular evening of immersive music and mischief under the stars on the grounds of The Hundredth Hill |  NovemberWriters with a voice, photographers with a vision |
2022 Spotlights
 Jan - MarSponsored winter writing residencies with Zac Kline, Rachel Dart, and Devin Price-Presslaf, et.al |  Jan 8-9A tintype photography popup with photographer Megan Snook |  Apr 1-10Juniper Gallery Presents Painters Grace Gonso, Rachel Gratz, and Wyatt LeGrand |
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 Apr 3A plein air workshop with local painter Kurt Larsen |  Jun 25-29Andre Royo and director Mark Armstrong workshop a new production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio |  Aug 1-10In collaboration with Arte Mexicano en Indiana, 5 young Urban painters take up residence in rural Indiana |
 Jul 6-18Three Black Artists collaborate in response to their shared vision: Musician Destiny Muhammad, painter Sholo, and playwright McKenya Dilworth |  Jun 25-29A sponsored residency responding to interpersonal violence with author Jennifer Poe |  Aug 27-31The Hinterland Band is in residence and releasing their debut CD with some of Bloomington's finest special guest musicians |
 Oct 15, 2022A Hoosier Octoberfest benefiting our waterways, and featuring some of Bloomington's most beloved performers! |  Sept 14 - Oct 2Constellation stages its inaugural page to stage to screen project for intimate audiences in an immersive theatre piece at The Hundredth Hill |
2021 Spotlights
 May 2021A primitive pottery workshop with ceramicist Jamas Brooke |  July 2021Aerialist/actress Dreya Weber in her groundbreaking solo show, directed by Kevin Hourigan |  August 2021Mining the past with playwrights Jeryl Brunner, Mike Caemmerer, Carmen Meyers, and Eric Mulholland |
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 November 2021Bren Thomas and Brianna Gause in collaboration |  December 2021Playwrights Selda Sahin & Derek Gregor stage their musical theatre piece at Bloomington Playwrights Project |  December 2021The Hundredth Hill's winter extravaganza in virtual form! |
2020
 Summer...The Hundredth Hill inaugural Emerging Theatre Residency featured development new works -- |
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 ... to Fall-- devised by a company of recent graduates from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. |
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