Marble House Project

05/17/2026

Ferns just creeping taller than the wall. Spring is fully on.

04/17/2026

Calling all parent artists: Marble House Project is bringing back its family-friendly residency to support artists juggling creative work with the responsibilities of parenting.

Accepted artists are welcome to bring a spouse or partner and their children; each family is provided with housing, studio space, and shared meals within a communal setting. Children (ages 4–14) participate in weekday programming from 9am–3pm, including art- and ecology-based activities alongside other enriching, hands-on experiences like organized field trips to local farms and attractions. Residents and their families are invited to get their hands dirty engaging in all aspects of MHP’s agriculture program, gaining insight into sustainability and food production (though this is not required).

If both parents are applying as artists, each must submit a separate application so studio space can be properly allocated, unless applying as a collaborative team.

Application deadline: May 17, 2026, apply via link in bio. Please share with artists in your community who might be a good fit.

04/15/2026

The Italianate gardens at MHP extend the vision of the Federal-style estate house into the landscape of the Green Mountains. Commissioned by financier and writer Edwin Lefevre after he fell in love with Italian gardens while serving as an ambassador in Europe, the property followed the trend of many other 20th century estates to integrate landscape, architecture, and infrastructure as one immersive environment.

The grounds were designed by Charles Downing Lay, a key figure of the Country Place Era and an early advocate for integrating public access to green space. Lay conceived the gardens as a formal Italianate composition, built from local marble and aligned with the era’s fascination with European estate design.

What makes this site exceptional is how ornamental and functional designs were integrated: the estate functioned as a self-contained environment, complete with its own early electrical plant and carefully engineered water flow.

The gardens are part of the historic Manley-Lefevre House, a 100-acre property that reflects multiple layers of Vermont history, from marble quarrying to Gilded Age leisure culture. What remains is a rare example of how landscape architecture once operated at the scale of total world-building: aesthetic, ecological, and infrastructural at once.

04/02/2026

These centerpiece sculptures were created by culinary artist in residence Natalie Cappellini of Edible Affairs (.affairs) using food grown on the property and at nearby farms. Using wire to create armatures, they built forms that highlighted the beauty of the produce and created whimsical centerpieces for our final sold-out farm-to-table dinner last fall.

03/26/2026

Applications are now live for 2027 residencies at MHP.

Artists of all disciplines are invited to apply, including musicians, visual artists, writers, performers and culinary artists, as well as others working on projects that would benefit from contemplative time and interactions with creatives, including scientists, architects, organizers, academics and curators.

This is a space for deep focus and unexpected exchange, where ideas are tested over family-style meals and in the studio and outcomes stretch beyond their intended forms. Special themed residencies for families and on the topic of ecology broadly defined are available in 2027.

Deadline to apply: May 17, 2026.

03/21/2026

We are proud to welcome culinary artists in our cohorts, a unique offering that not many residencies provide. Inspired by the creativity of food and gathering, many of these artist-chefs build local connections through the as they source for our popular farm-to-table dinners.

Marble House is located in the historic town of Dorset, VT and surrounded by farms, so the market acts as a community hub that inspires deeper engagement with place and our community.

Many resident chefs also decorate our event barn to create immersive dining experiences. Here, culinary artist in residence Natalie Cappellini of Edible Affairs (.affairs) used produce grown on site at MHP and the local market to build whimsical sculptural centerpieces and install decor for our final farm-to-table dinner last season.

We are already excited to gather around the table with new artists and our community in 2026. Stay tuned for dates to be announced soon.

03/19/2026

Sap is running, the woods are waking up, and sweetness is in the air. 🍁 It’s maple sugaring season, and this weekend marks Vermont Maple Sugar Open House Weekend—a chance to step inside 90+ sugarhouses, see the boil in action, and taste syrup at its source. The season is a special time for Vermonters, including our longtime Director of Operations, Tina Cohen; she runs Millbrook Farms’ 20,000 tree sugaring operation. But where did this beloved local pastime begin?

Long before sugarhouses and steel evaporators, Indigenous peoples of the Northeast—including the Abenaki, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe—developed the first sugaring practices. In early spring, when freeze-thaw cycles move sap through the trees, they tapped maples using hand-carved tools, collecting sap in birchbark containers. Rather than boiling in metal, they used hot stones to heat the sap, concentrating it into syrup or sugar.

Maple sugaring is ecological knowledge in action: an intimate understanding of seasonal rhythms, tree health, and reciprocity with the land. It marks a time of renewal—a shift from winter scarcity to the first sweetness of spring—and remains a living tradition grounded in care, observation, and relationship.

We’re thinking about maple not just as tradition, but as practice: patience, attention, transformation. The slow work of tending trees, gathering sap, and making something rich from what first appears thin.

If you’re out wandering this weekend, follow the steam. Support a local sugarhouse: our neighbors at are open this weekend, along with many others. Get more information at . See you at the Sugar on Snow party. ❄️

📸 by Vermonter at with and at a community sugaring workshop. We love how these traditions bring people together.

03/12/2026

We’re excited to announce our 2026 residents. Participants were selected from over 700 applicants and include visual artists, writers, composers, performers, and culinary practitioners who will spend time living and working together in Vermont. Congratulations to everyone who will be joining us!

Residencies are built on the belief that creative work grows in community—through shared meals, conversations, and the slow time needed to experiment. We’re excited to welcome them and share their work with you. Follow them, and mark your calendars for our ArtSeed open studios, held the final weekend of every residency: May 10, June 7, July 12, and October 18. Stay tuned for announcements about our farm-to-table dinners and other upcoming events!





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Matthew Bryne

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Magdalena Bermudez
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Simon Rivet

03/12/2026

New Artists, New Programming -

We’re thrilled to welcome an extraordinary group of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and thinkers in four cohorts in 2026, including our inaugural ecological arts residency. Check out the list of selected artists below.

03/03/2026

Someday winter will end. But even in the darkest hour there are beacons.