Bischoff Inn, 320 Lafayette Street, Tamaqua, PA (2026)

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

03/16/2026

Welcome Roxanne Bradley-Tate from the DC Metro area!

Roxanne Bradley-Tate is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator who moves fluidly between sophisticated brand systems and bright, kid-centered worlds as Roxy Tate. From years designing everything from retail packaging to hotel graphics, she now brings that experience to “Culture for the Kids: A Spring Celebration of Black History & Creative Expression,” an immersive, educational event she’s creating for children and families at the Charles County Public Library’s Waldorf West branch, funded by the Maryland State Arts Council. During her week at the Inn, Roxanne used the quiet setting to map out floor plans, zones, activities, and materials for this spring celebration of Black history as living culture, giving parents and kids a hands-on way to dress up, make art, and step into stories that might otherwise feel “boring” or too heavy.

Thanks Roxanne for joining us & looking forward to seeing your event!

02/27/2026

Welcome Adela Sinclair from New York, NY!⁠
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Adela is a Romanian-born poet and memoirist whose work is raw, direct, and emotionally intense, moving through childhood trauma, grief, and healing without flinching. Her father’s recent death and the period of mourning that follows is the focus of her current writing, creating gut-punching work that invites readers into deep feeling and transformation.⁠
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Her two recent books, The Butcher’s Granddaughter and La Revedere, move between childhood and adulthood, body and spirit, and the messy, beautiful work of surviving what could have broken her. ⁠
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During her residency at the Inn, the quiet and spaciousness of the space has given her nervous system room to rest, feeding her writing in ways she’s carrying back to her life and teaching in New York.⁠
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Thank you Adela for joining us!

02/24/2026

Welcome Nancy Cook!

Nancy is a writer and former lawyer whose work braids history, fiction, essay, and poetry to uncover the often hidden stories of place, justice, and community. During her time in Tamaqua and across the northern Appalachians, she listens closely—to residents, archives, landscapes, and even the “ghosts” of coal towns and railroad cities—to honor the real character of each town without stereotypes. Her current project grows out of residencies in places like Harpers Ferry and small Appalachian communities, where she wanders, photographs, researches, and writes to illuminate how geography, labor, and memory shape everyday life.

Thanks Nancy for visiting Tamaqua, we hope you return!

02/24/2026

Welcome Nancy Cook!⁠
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Nancy is a writer and former lawyer whose work braids history, fiction, essay, and poetry to uncover the often hidden stories of place, justice, and community. During her time in Tamaqua and across the northern Appalachians, she listens closely—to residents, archives, landscapes, and even the “ghosts” of coal towns and railroad cities—to honor the real character of each town without stereotypes. Her current project grows out of residencies in places like Harpers Ferry and small Appalachian communities, where she wanders, photographs, researches, and writes to illuminate how geography, labor, and memory shape everyday life.⁠
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Thanks Nancy for visiting Tamaqua, we hope you return!

02/23/2026

Welcome Donald Stahl from Brooklyn, NY! ⁠
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Don is a professional photographer working in New York. He is originally from the Lehigh Valley and returns to PA often to photograph. ⁠
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The residency was Don's first visit to Tamaqua. He enjoyed walking around town and stopping to photograph a scene that caught his eye. He also explored the surrounding area.⁠
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Flip through his images and see if you recognize where they were taken!⁠
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Thanks Don for visiting Tamaqua!

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