Bischoff Inn

Bischoff Inn A 5-room boutique hotel. Now taking reservations! Offering short term & and entire property stays.

Welcome Addison Anderson from Mount Vernon, NY!⁠⁠Addison is a comedy writer and performer developing a TV pilot, a kids’...
07/16/2026

Welcome Addison Anderson from Mount Vernon, NY!⁠
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Addison is a comedy writer and performer developing a TV pilot, a kids’ sports mockumentary, set in his native San Francisco. Drawing on his own youth experiences in basketball, baseball, and track, the documentary's tone will parody sports documentaries. During his Micro-Residency at Bischoff Inn, he used the quiet setting and long walks around town to unlock old memories and shape the project’s world, aiming to draft the pilot episode and outline the broader limited series arc.⁠
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Days were structured around focused writing sessions broken up by walks to Hope & Coffee, Gimbel's, Piercini's, Odd Fellow's Cemetery, and evenings at local bars like Sidetrack Tap Room and Hang Loose for a World Cup game. Conversations with regulars became part of the Addison's storytelling fuel.⁠
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Thank you Addison for joining us, you're now an honorary local!

Welcome Andrew Small from Harrisonburg, VA! Andrew is a painter, a teacher at James Madison University, and brother of f...
07/05/2026

Welcome Andrew Small from Harrisonburg, VA! Andrew is a painter, a teacher at James Madison University, and brother of former Micro-Resident Jen Small!⁠
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Andrew Small is a painter who creates entirely from imagination, building small, carefully composed spaces that feel like invented rooms or landscapes with a quiet sense of humor and joy. He focused on a new body of small works around 8 x 10 inches, starting with simple rectangles and developing them into layered watercolor and gouache compositions on paper. He also brought larger surfaces, working with matte acrylics, sprayed backgrounds, and crisp taped edges that create a play between flat color fields and subtle depth.⁠
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He used the residency to experiment with materials—Liquitex spray paints, Golden high-flow paints, and specialty grounds that make canvas behave more like paper—in an effort to bring the “magic” of his long-loved works on paper into larger paintings. Sketchbooks full of invented forms guide his compositions, while new screen-like overlays and soft, sprayed passages introduced shadow and dimensionality without losing the graphic clarity that comes from his background in design. Having uninterrupted days in the studio, plus short walks downtown, visits to Stoker’s Brewing Company and the Coal Cats cat café, gave him time to reset after a busy teaching year in Virginia.⁠
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Thank you Andrew for joining us! We're so glad to have you during your summer break!

Join us this coming weekend, June 20 - 21st, 10 am - 4 pm for Carbon & Light: Anthracite as Subject and Medium at Eckley...
06/17/2026

Join us this coming weekend, June 20 - 21st, 10 am - 4 pm for Carbon & Light: Anthracite as Subject and Medium at Eckley Miner's Village in Weatherly, PA as part of the Patchtown Days Festival!⁠
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Micro-Residents Michael Froio and Andrea Krupp will exhibit their work for this pop-up exhibition. Meet the artists and discover their work about the Coal Region.⁠
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We'll be at the Nicholas House, a wonderfully preserved 1940s property with furnishings true to the decade. Michael and Andrea's work will be installed in this period home. Don't miss it!

As we wrap up our Winter/Spring 2025-2026 session, give a warm hello to our final residents of the season!⁠⁠Mark & Matth...
04/21/2026

As we wrap up our Winter/Spring 2025-2026 session, give a warm hello to our final residents of the season!⁠
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Mark & Matthew Ludak - a father and son duo who drove all over NEPA photographing the post-industrial landscape⁠
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Jon Bilous - photographer with a vast collection of Pennsylvania images & beyond, visit theamericanaproject.com to see more⁠
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Michael Froio - one of our favorite returning artists who continued to photograph local coal mines and the industrial landscape⁠
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Sara Levitt - worked on editing a short film, a follow up to the documentary, Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio (2013) which she co-directed with Ryan Douglass.⁠
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Megan and Andrew Raab - a father and daughter duo who returned to Tamaqua to revisit Andrew's birthplace of Tamaqua and make art together.⁠
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Thanks all for coming and creating a full and buzzy spring break week together!

04/01/2026

☀️Our Summer 2026 Micro-Residency applications are OPEN!🌞⁠
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We're now accepting applications for artists working in all disciplines. Spend a week or two weeks with us in Tamaqua, PA!⁠
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Visit bischoffinn.com/residency for more info & application.⁠
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Our spacious studios are 550 - 680 square feet each, and located in our former Lumber Shed building, just a short stroll away from your accommodations at the Inn.⁠
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We have a total of five workspaces, each paired with one of our five private guest rooms.⁠
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Spots will be limited to 10 artists per month and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.⁠
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Please SHARE WIDELY & join us this summer!

Welcome Tyler Kline from Cincinnati, OH!⁠⁠Tyler is a composer whose work is starting to blend music with photography and...
03/27/2026

Welcome Tyler Kline from Cincinnati, OH!⁠
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Tyler is a composer whose work is starting to blend music with photography and video, using those slower, more observational practices to make his music more patient and atmospheric. At the Inn, he spent most of his time on a big multi-movement commission for alto saxophone and piano, especially a long central movement about remembering his late dog Peggy. The music drifts between hazy, uncertain passages and brief, clear moments, like memories that come into focus and then fade.⁠
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He filled sketchbooks with music by hand, then moved ideas into his laptop to shape three small “songs” inside the piece that gradually slow down and end on a hymn that never quite resolves, echoing the lack of closure in grief. ⁠
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Between work sessions he took short walks to Hope & Coffee, the cemetery, and around town, spent a long afternoon talking with locals at Stoker’s Brewing Company in Tamaqua, and made a day trip to Pilger Ruh in Pottsville for some standout beers, all of which helped him test a new daily rhythm he plans to bring back to his freelance life and future projects.⁠
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Thanks Tyler for joining us! Really glad you could experience Tamaqua!

Welcome Christopher Thomas from Greensboro, NC!Christopher Thomas is a painter and collage artist making images that are...
03/24/2026

Welcome Christopher Thomas from Greensboro, NC!

Christopher Thomas is a painter and collage artist making images that are large and dense built from countless small bits. This layered approach resolves a mass of visual chaos into a calming image.

His process treats the drawings as a "compost" of sorts, remixing and deconstructing visual elements into something new. The recent work is inspired by music venue rooms plastered with stickers, posters and markings, using these overloaded surfaces as metaphors for time, touch, and the people that shape a place.

During his Micro-Residency, Christopher began playing with a vintage Track 4 game in the room as a springboard for geometric drawings, layered collages, and experiments that may later become paintings, scans, or risograph-style prints. Studio days were punctuated by hikes at Tuscarora and Locust Lake, quiet evenings with books, and brief family visits to his parents in Wilkes-Barre, giving him a chance to focus, tinker, and reconnect with the working-class landscape he grew up in while testing new processes he’ll carry back to his North Carolina studio and classroom.

Thanks Christopher for joining us!

Welcome Kayte Terry from Philadelphia, PA!Kayte Terry is mixed media artist. Her collages layer fashion magazines, gold ...
03/23/2026

Welcome Kayte Terry from Philadelphia, PA!

Kayte Terry is mixed media artist. Her collages layer fashion magazines, gold leaf, old wallpaper, and dense hand stitching to think through soft architecture, Gothic excess, and the fine line between disfiguration and devotion in the Catholic religion. Working in a palette of bruised pinks, she pre-Renaissance paintings, especially the robes of saints, for drapery that becomes cut, reassembled, and sewn into fleshy, feminine forms that embrace ornament, excess, and the “too much-ness” often feared in horror and in femininity itself.

During her Micro-Residency, Kayte completed a new suite of four collages. She intended to make quick daily “sketches” but pushed them into fully realized, labor-intensive works. Between work sessions, she read about soft architecture, textiles, memory, and Gothic literature, letting certain sentences filter directly into her visual thinking.
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Walks to the Odd Fellows cemetery, Owl Creek Reservoir, Hawk Mountain, and around town became another part of the practice.

Post-residency, Kayte's ideas for potential work include making piñatas, sculptures, or wall-filling installations that extend the collages into three-dimensional space.

Thanks Kayte for joining us! Very excited to see your future pieces!

Welcome Lindsay Coffman from Pittsburgh, PA!Lindsay Coffman is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, q...
03/20/2026

Welcome Lindsay Coffman from Pittsburgh, PA!

Lindsay Coffman is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, quilt-making, fabric banners, and installation, using intuitive image-making to explore q***r identity, Southern Baptist upbringing, and class in small-town life. Known for previously photographing colorful, otherworldly interiors, Lindsay used their Micro-Residency to slow down, read about mindful photography, and roam Tamaqua, Jim Thorpe, and the Lehigh Gorge—collecting foggy landscapes, neighborhood scenes, and flea-market treasures as the beginnings of a new body of work that may loop back and reshape their ongoing practice.

Scroll through and see if you recognize these Tamaqua scenes!

Thanks Lindsay! Looking forward to seeing what comes next in your work!

Welcome Lee Burckhardt from Pittsburgh, PA!⁠⁠Lee Burckhardt is a Pennsylvania-born tattooer and collector who turns vint...
03/17/2026

Welcome Lee Burckhardt from Pittsburgh, PA!⁠
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Lee Burckhardt is a Pennsylvania-born tattooer and collector who turns vintage folk art, numerous vintage books, and regional PA Dutch history into highly personal flash tattoo designs—hex signs, quilts, biology diagrams, and old kitchen ephemera reimagined for skin. ⁠
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During their Micro-Residency, Lee dug into local archives and antique malls, sketched from Pennsylvania German hex signs and historical books, and began building an index of imagery that preserves everyday objects from the landfill while honoring the people and vernacular art of this region. The quiet winter landscape, diner stops, and library/historical society visits to Pottsville, Reading, and Berks County fed Lee’s vision of a future studio of their own, where tattoos, folk art, and small-town vibes all live under one roof. They especially enjoyed the Hometown Farmer's Market's endless amount of ephemera, books and handmade crafts as sources for designs.⁠
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Thank you Lee for joining us! Very happy you found much inspiration here!

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