Lanesboro Arts is pleased to welcome Chloe Bischoff to Lanesboro as Artist-in-Residence from April 1st – 30th, 2026.

During their month in Lanesboro, Chloe will invite folks to connect with the inert materials that make up the land around us through the mediums of clay and storytelling.

Everything from Lanesboro’s geography to its built environment have been shaped by the people and materials which exist there, from the steep bluffscapes that shape the river valley to the rich historical brick facades downtown. To explore this entanglement, Chloe will invite community members to collect soil samples from significant places in their lives, and incorporate them into clay to create a series of ceramic tokens. The resulting collection of sculptures will tell a story about Lanesboro’s human and material community.

Residency  Events

• Thu, April 2nd, 5:00 – 7:00 pm: Welcome Potluck and Presentation at The Cottage House Inn Meeting Room
• Fri, April 10th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm OR Sun, April 12th, 2:00 – 3:00 pm: Soil Collection and Pinch Pot Workshop*
• Sat, April 11th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Story Sharing Table at Lanesboro Winter Farmers Market
• Fri, April 17th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm OR Sun, April 19th, 2:00 – 3:00 pm: Token Making Workshop*
• Sat, April 25th, 10 am – 1 pm: Story Sharing Table at Lanesboro Arts Gallery
• Wed, April 29th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm: Capstone Presentation at Sons of Norway Lodge

Residency Events marked with * are identical workshops being offered twice, in order to accommodate more participants.

About Chloe Bischoff

Chloe Bischoff is a sculptor and ceramicist whose work investigates the millennia-old relationship between humans and clay. Their work investigates this relationship, beholding clay as an emissary of matter through which to explore themes of animism, selfhood, and queer ecology—concepts that dissolve boundaries between living and nonliving entities and reimagine nature as an non-hierarchical, entangled network of vibrant matter. Chloe sees their process as reciprocal interaction between themself and the clay, a series of ritual encounters between two entities rather than as a utilization of an inert medium.

About the Lanesboro Early Career Artist Residency Program

Supported by the Jerome Foundation, the Lanesboro Artist Residency Program awards two to three residencies per year to early career artists with projects that activate the people and places of Lanesboro while instigating positive change. The program’s place-based and community-engaged focus is geared toward early career artists that are driven to explore ways in which their work can be applied to the community and how Lanesboro’s rural community can inform their work. For more information, visit lanesboroarts.org or call 507-467-2446.