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The Anderson Center's role as an artist community has evolved to encompass on-site studio artists as well as the visiting artists, writers and scholars who occupy the campus for six months of the year through our residency program.

The Tower View campus provides studio spaces at affordable rents for local artists.  The mix has included such diverse talents as film making and screenwriting, photography, sculpting, painting and pottery making.  Some studio artists work in the main gallery/classroom building, while others rent individual studios created by converting existing buildings or by constructing new facilities.

Did you know?

• The work of over 240 emerging and established artists and writers is annually exhibited or published by the Anderson Center.
• Over 6,000 people a year attend Anderson Center art shows, celebrations, and other events.
• The Anderson Center 's art collection is one of the finest in rural Minnesota, with works by Picasso, Chagall, Dali and other 20th century masters.
• The Anderson Center is one of twenty artist communities in the United States whose buildings are listed on the National Historic Register.