Rock Street Artist Residency

Rock Street Artist Residency

The mission of Rock Street Artist Residency is to create an environment where all artists are welcome. A place to explore, contemplate and share ideas, without judgement empowering the creative spirit in its many forms creating vibrant artistic community.

RSAR emphasizes the human experience and the creative process. Life is a creative journey and consider every moment a part of the process. New experiences stimulate creativity and revitalize the creative mind.  For this reason, our residency is self-motivated.

​RSAR is a Victorian home that was built in 1887, the first farm on Rock Street. It was a farm and smokehouse that brought fresh eggs, smoked fish and poultry to the steam ships that visited Marquette harbor. It is a unique environment, offering artists a place with limited distraction, equipped studio spaces, quality food and an abundance of natural inspiration and only two blocks from the largest freshwater lake in the world.

Our residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two-and three-week sessions.

Founder & Director

Kristine earned her Master of Fine Arts degree and Women’s Study Certificate from Stony Brook University, NY. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, focusing on Photography, from University of Oregon-Eugene, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. She also received a Certificate of Completion from The Paris Fashion Institute in Paris France and an Associates of Science in Fashion Design from Plaza Three Academy in Phoenix Arizona.

She is currently Art Faculty and Fine Arts Coordinator for Bay College in Escanaba MI. She has been published in the 2nd edition of, Elements of Photography, by artist and author Angela Faris-Belt. Granger was a 2020 & 2022, Artist-in-Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France and a recipient of The Denis Diderot Award. Her sculpture, jouissance and, the red one, created at the residency are now part of their permanent collection and on permanent display in the Chateau. In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence on Mackinac Island and the recipient of the grand prize for Poetic Visions of Mackinac. Kristine is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates memory and exhibits both nationally and internationally.

In 2023, Rock Street Artist Residency was established by Kristine.