18th Street Arts Center

Located in the heart of Santa Monica, 18th Street Arts Center is an international arts center supporting emerging to mid-career artists working with issues of social consciousness, community and diversity. Los Angeles-area artists and residents of countries that 18th Street has cooperative agreements with are invited to apply.

Abrons Art Center / Henry Street Settlement

New York-based painters, printmakers, sculptors, and installation artists are eligible for studio residencies at Abrons Arts Center, offering a shared workspace and opportunities for involvement in exhibitions and other programs at Henry Street.

AIR-Kewaunee

Located on the beaches of Lake Michigan just north of Chicago and housed in several refurbished factory buildings, AIR-Kewaunee offers artists the opportunity to experiment and try new mediums and approaches in a relaxed, beautiful setting.

William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center, Edward F. Albee Foundation

The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers, visual artists, and composers from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all creative artists to apply.

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

The Anderson Center accepts emerging and established visual and performing artists, writers, and scholars of all kinds from throughout the United States and abroad for residencies on its rural, historic estate.

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Anderson Ranch offers an artists’ residency program designed to encourage the creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging and established visual artists. The residency program is offered during two terms each year for approximately a 10-week period. The program provides creative immersion for independent visual artists working in one or more of the following media: ceramics, digital media/photography, furniture design and wood, painting and drawing, installation, mixed media, printmaking, and sculpture. While in residence, all artists will share in an established community of interaction, conceptual development and intense production of work.

The Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle (www.thearcticcircle.org) is an annual series of artist and scientist-led expeditions to remote and fascinating destinations aboard a specially outfitted scientific-research sailing vessel. Our expeditions are followed by an international exhibit schedule traveling to major centers in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

A nationally renowned center of contemporary arts and crafts education, Arrowmont’s Artist-in-Residence program offers pre-professional, self-directed artists 11 months of time and space to develop a major body of work in a creative community environment of students and visiting faculty.

Art Farm

Art Farm is the perfect place for creating: lots of wind, lots of bugs, lots of birds, lots of old buildings, lots of old machines, lots of hot weather, lots of big storms, and lots of isolation. Surprise yourself and apply—it could be just what you’ve been looking for.

The Art Students League of New York Vytlacil Campus

Set on fifteen acres in the Lower Hudson Valley, but only 40 minutes from midtown Manhattan, Vytlacil allows Residents to craft their own mix of solitary work, mentoring from on-site instructors, community with other artists, and inspiration from New York's museums and galleries during their one or two month stay.

ART342

ART342 hopes to assist artists who have well-developed technical skills and who are ready to develop a more mature body of work. We restrict the sessions to the artist only, without pets, children, companions, visitors or local interruptions. We offer 5 studios and 3 living spaces. There are no charges. We offer a weekly stipend of $100 for supplies. We do not supply meals or groceries.

Artcroft Center for Arts and Humanities

Located on a 400-acre working cattle farm in the historic Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, Artcroft’s residency program allows literary and visual artists a rural and serene environment in which to work creatively without distractions. Residencies are available to emerging and established visual and literary artists.

Artist House at St. Mary's College of Maryland

The Artist House is an artist-in-residence program for visual artists and writers, and has two interrelated program goals: 1) to support creative artists, with both emerging and established careers, by offering them the time and space to create new work and 2) to develop programming in which artists-in-residence share their work with the campus and local communities. The Artist House can accommodate two creative artists at a time. Modest honorariums are offered in exchange for limited interaction with students in classes, lectures and workshops. Residencies are by invitation only.

Atlantic Center for the Arts

Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Each residency includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - emerging and midcareer artists - through a competitive application process administered by ACA. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, interact/collaborate, and work independently on their own projects. The relaxed atmosphere, unstructured program and lush, unspoiled environment provide considerable time for artistic experimentation, exploration and creation.

Aurora Project, Inc.

Residencies will begin in 2011 with accommodations and studios for up to nine artists. The three to six week residencies will host artists working in a wide range of disciplines including visual arts, music, film and video and writing. Architects, scientists and scholars will be considered for exploration of new ideas, research and writing residencies. Interim residencies and retreats are scheduled for 2009/10.

Baer Art Center

Baer Art Center provides visual artists and architects with the opportunity to deepen and develop their creative spirit in a selective group of internationally diverse and professionally established individuals. The Art Center also offers its residents the unique experience of remoteness, seclusion and sublime nature within a modern society.

The Banff Centre / Leighton Artists Colony

Set amid the spectacular backdrop of the Canadian Rockies, The Banff Centre's eight Leighton Studios offer professional artists an opportunity for concentrated work in an exceptional environment. The quiet and secluded wooded setting of the studios, thoughtfully designed interiors, and serence forest views create an ideal space for creativity and intense productivity.

The Rockefeller Foundation - Bellagio Creative Arts Residency

Bellagio creative arts residencies – for composers, novelists, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers and visual artists – provide time for disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial engagement, uninterrupted by the usual professional and personal demands. The Center typically offers up to 4-week stays for no more than 3-5 creative artists at a time at Bellagio, Italy. Artists of significant achievement, from any country, are welcome to apply.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Artists from around the world come to work in The Bemis Center’s rehabbed industrial space, providing a supportive community and opportunities to confront new challenges. The program is open to all visual media including painting, sculpture, video, installation and performance art; collectives and collaborative teams are welcome.

The Bogliasco Foundation / Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities

Located in a series of villas on the Italian Riviera, the Liguria Study Center provides residential fellowships for qualified persons working on advanced creative or scholarly projects in all arts and humanities disciplines, including archaeology, architecture/ landscape architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and the visual arts.

Archie Bray Foundation

Archie Bray’s Artist-in-Residence program has drawn artists from around the world for over 50 years. Located on the 26-acre site of a 19th-Century brick factory and surrounded by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Archie Bray welcomes all artists working with clay.

Seven Below Arts Initiative + Burlington City Arts

About the Program

The Seven Below Arts Initiative was established to foster artistic development and support arts education in the state of Vermont. Burlington City Arts, in partnership with Seven Below, is proud to administer the second annual session of the Artist-in-Residence program at The Barn, a historic property near Burlington, Vermont.

Supporting three artists at a time for eight-week sessions, the residency is designed to provide a quiet, inspiring, and supportive environment for individual and/or collaborative work. This nationally competitive program is open to artists at any stage of their career and working in various visual arts media. There are no geographic restrictions. Selected artists receive a stipend, private rooms and communal amenities.

Caldera

Caldera accepts writers, visual and performing artists, designers, architects, engineers, and scientists, awarding them month-long retreats in the snowy months of January, February, or March of each year.

Centre d’art marnay art centre (CAMAC)

CAMAC is a creative centre offering international residency programs for artists, scientists and technologists working with new media. Our ambition is to foster exchange and develop meaningful communication by providing a unique environment for individuals and collaborative groups working on the evolution of ideas or the realisation of a body of work.

The Camargo Foundation

The Camargo Foundation welcomes applications from composers, writers, and visual artists pursuing specific projects and from scholars pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences relating to French and francophone cultures. The interdisciplinary residency program is intended to give fellows the time and space they need to realise their projects.

Caversham Centre

Caversham programmes are designed to transfer skills, inspire individuals to become agents of inspiration and change, and result in tangible products as evidence of the journey undertaken.

Center for Contemporary Printmaking

The Artist-in-Residence Program at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking offers established and emerging artists an opportunity to realize printmaking projects by providing time, privacy, equipment, and a creative environment. The residency provides uninterrupted time to produce a body of work and a supportive atmosphere for creative growth and development in traditional and innovative printmaking techniques. Artists can create an edition, explore new mediums, or otherwise advance their printmaking oeuvre. It is hoped that competition for the residency will stimulate original and inventive proposals for work that artists might not otherwise attempt.

Centrum Artists in Residence Program

Centrum's Artist Residency Program was established in 1980 as a resource for artists and creative thinkers of all genres. Residency projects can be focused on a single genre or be a multidisciplinary undertaking, and might be the creative work of an individual or encompass the collaborative work of a group. In partnership with Washington State Parks, Centrum is able to offer an opportunity to selected artists to live and work in this magnificent setting at a significantly reduced cost. Residents also have the opportunity to work with our campus partners Copper Canyon Poetry Press, Corvidae Print Studio, Madrona MindBody Institute, Port Townsend Marine Science Center, and Synergy Sound Studio (by prior arrangement).

Civitella Ranieri Foundation

The Civitella Ranieri Center is a workplace for gifted artists, writers and composers from different countries, located in the 15th century Civitella Ranieri castle in the Umbria region of Italy.

Coleman Center for the Arts

The Coleman Center for the Arts offers residencies to professional artists in three program areas—Visual Arts, Public & Community Arts, and Art Education, History & Theory. All areas of the program bring contemporary professional artists to our rural Alabama community, and offer artists a direct introduction to Alabama’s Black Belt Region.

Colorado Art Ranch

Colorado Art Ranch is a nomadic arts organization founded on the belief that the arts are an agent for change. We travel to two or more Colorado towns each year to sponsor one-month residencies for visual and literary artists from around the world. During each residency Colorado Art Ranch hosts a public forum to promote conversations on how art and science intersect with land and social issues.

Residencies at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass

The Studio’s Artist-in-Residence program brings artists from around the world to Corning. The artists spend a month at The Studio, exploring new directions in glass art, or expanding on their current bodies of work, while using the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum. At the end of the residency, each artist gives a presentation about his or her work. This is a free event held in The Studio Lecture Room and open to the public.
Photos of Artists-in-Residence courtesy of Jason Whong, Star-Gazette.

Cornucopia Art Center

Cornucopia’s Residencies encourage emerging artists to create new work and to integrate this work into the larger community of Lanesboro.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offers four and five-week residencies, at no cost, to national and international artists in the disciplines of media arts/new genres, visual arts, literature, choreography, and music composition.

Edenfred

Edenfred (Eden peace in Norwegian) provides creative artists uninterrupted time to work in a peaceful setting. It is a gracious 1916 Georgian-style mansion in Madison, Wisconsin, on 2.5 acres with beautiful gardens, a lovely pond, a small woods and outdoor swimming pool (summer only). The Resident Fellows Program is designed as a retreat experience to pursue personal creative opportunities while sharing collegial interaction with a small group of artists (4 resident suites).

The Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception, with a mission to create a culture of learning through innovative environments, programs, and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. We invite artists to explore the natural and man made world in new ways. From its beginning, the museum has used the observations made by scientists and artists as a means of expanding visitors' understanding of nature, culture, and natural phenomena. The residencies are often about the sharing and exchange of ideas.

Fine Arts Work Center

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is dedicated to providing emerging visual artists and creative writers with time and space in which to pursue independent work in a community of peers.

free103point9 Wave Farm AIRtime Residencies

The AIRtime residency program provides artists with valuable space in which to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre using free103point9's resource library and equipment holdings. Ten residents are selected from an open application process each year. The residencies take place at free103point9's Wave Farm, a retreat-like setting on 30 acres in upstate New York.

Goetemann Residency at Rocky Neck Art Colony

The Goetemann Residency at Rocky Neck Art Colony seeks to nurture excellence in the visual arts and to celebrate the artistic culture of Rocky Neck. Located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the residency includes waterfront live-work studio/gallery space, press coverage and access to a rich and varied cultural community.

Artist Residency at Goldwell

Offering a rustic and unique desert art making experience to challenge and support the creative growth of artists from a variety of disciplines. All artists work primarily out of the Red Barn Art Center. The Center houses a large 1,125 square foot sculpture and painting studio, a gallery and performance space, and a non-toxic intaglio printmaking studio. Supported residencies offer a $500/week stipend plus housing; unsupported residencies available for $200 week.

The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences

Hambidge is the oldest artists' residency program in the Southeast, and one of the oldest in the nation. Founded in 1934 by Mary Crovatt Hambidge, on 600 acres of pristine forest in the Northeast Georgia mountains, we provide artists and other creative thinkers with the setting, solitude and time necessary to create.

Headlands Center For the Arts

Situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, just minutes north of San Francisco, Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized Artist in Residence Program, interdisciplinary public programs, and subsidized studio rentals for Bay Area artists of all disciplines. Through these programs, Headlands offers opportunities for artist research, dialogue and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society.

Hedgebrook

Hedgebrook is a retreat for women writers from around the world. Our mission is to invest in women who write by providing them with space and time to create significant work, in solitude and community, and by developing an international network to connect alumnae writers with readers and audiences.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat

The Hermitage provides 3- to 6-week multidisciplinary residencies for mid-career artists. It is located on 8.5 acres of beach on Florida's Gulf Coast, and has been created out of 5 restored historic buildings restored into living space and studio space for its artists. All Hermitage residencies are curated.

Hopscotch House Artist Residency and Retreat Center

Hopscotch House offers time and space free of charge to selected Kentucky women artists whose art is feminist in nature and promotes positive social change.

HUB-BUB

HUB-BUB is an 11-month artists-in-residence opportunity for self-motivated pre-professional and emerging young visual artists and creative writers between the ages of 20 and 35. Residents receive a small stipend in exchange for time spent working on community-based art projects and helping out with HUB-BUB projects and events. The writer serves as an intern for HUB-BUB's sister organization; The Hub City Writers Project (www.hubcity.org)

Artists Enclave at I-Park

I-Park aspires to create a special space where the important work being done by solitary individuals in their artistic and intellectual pursuits is encouraged and celebrated -- a living, three-dimensional environment/community uniquely conducive to the creative process.

International School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture

The International School welcomes visual artists to the Umbrian hill town of Montecastello di Vibio. Halfway between Rome and Florence, the campus provides an intimate environment where artists can work intensively and independently.

Jentel Artist Residency Program

Experience the remarkable landscape and atmosphere of a working cattle ranch in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. Experience a place where time passes in the quietude as it did 50 to 100 years ago. Experience time apart from daily concerns. Experience an environment in which to concentrate on personal artistic development. Experience a place where the creative process is honored and the artist is valued.

Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency

Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency is located next to Joshua Tree National Park , in the high desert of Joshua Tree, CA. Our residency program provides for accommodations for one to two months for artist to explore their work.

Kala Art Institute

Kala Art Institute inhabits the historic Heinz Ketchup factory in an urban, industrial neighborhood of Berkeley. Emerging and established artists working in printmaking techniques, photo-processes, book arts and digital media may apply to the studio residency.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Pyramid Atlantic offers emerging, mid-career, and mature artists a stimulating and nurturing environment that includes discussion, collaboration, and full staff support. Residencies take place in their papermill, printshop, letterpress, and screenprint studio areas. Artists-in-residence receive technical advice from master printmakers and papermakers; the space to create one-of-a-kind works up to 4 x 8 feet or editioned works in paper, print, or artist books; and studio time to work without interruption.

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

Located in Nebraska City, Nebraska, a quiet Midwestern town, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, founded in 2001, serves visual artists, writers, and composers from around the world by providing them the space and time to create new work.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

The Arts/Industry residency program is open to all emerging and established artists working in any discipline; artists need not be trained ceramists or metal sculptors, but should have the ability to quickly grasp industrial technologies. The residency takes place within the nation’s leading plumbingware manufacturer, Kohler Co., and offers artists the opportunity to work with leading technicians and create large-scale work in an industrial setting.

La Muse Writers and Artists Retreat

La Muse provides a space where artists and writers can work in a peaceful, isolated and inspiring setting. We have hosted poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, screenwriters, painters, visual artists, photographers, chefs, composers, directors, healers and more. Rooms are available to barters, recipients of fellowships and grants, and to individuals who apply directly through La Muse.

The retreats each month create a rewarding environment for attendees as well as our ever-growing artistic community. So come and get inspired at La Muse and participate in a growing creative community, one that encourages artistic diversity as well as an exchange between cultures from all over the world.

La Napoule Art Foundation

La Napoule Art Foundation offers Artists-In-Residence a unique environment of interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity at the Château de La Napoule.

In an effort to preserve Henry and Marie Clews’ lifelong commitment to the arts, the Foundation promotes exceptional talents -- both recognized and emerging -- on the international scene, through cooperation with major organizations and leaders in the arts worldwide.

Lijiang Studio

Lijiang Studio pursues the meaningful interaction between local, Chinese, and non-Chinese artists, which contributes to the long-term development and stimulation of Lijiang.

Louisiana ArtWorks Studio Residency Program

The Louisiana Artworks Studio Residency Program offers Louisiana residents studio space in our beautiful 93,000 sq. ft. facility. Four yearly site visits by art professionals provide residency participants with increased visibility, and numerous opportunities for individual programming and demonstrations in our third floor demo area are available. Artists-in-residence also have access to uninstructed time in our four ceramics, glass, metal, and print-making shops.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / Swing Space

Swing Space is designed to address short-term space needs for a wide range of projects, and to encourage creative, experimental and collaborative approaches to artistic practice in unconventional spaces. Swing Space works with downtown New York City building owners to make vacant space available to artists, curators and arts organizations. Ground floor retail spaces, gutted industrial spaces, upper level office floors, and subterranean bank vaults are temporarily repurposed as performance venues, spaces for site-specific installations and exhibitions, studio workspace, rehearsal studios and temporary offices.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / Workspace

Workspace provides visual artists and writers working in diverse media and genres with a studio workspace for nine months, as well as access to a community of other artists, professional development services, and a modest stipend.

The MacDowell Colony

The MacDowell Colony facilitates a balance between focused work and interdisciplinary interaction, among composers, writers, and visual artists.

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) is a dance and choreographic research center affiliated with the School of Dance at The Florida State University. Choreographers and companies are brought into the center for two to four week research based choreographic residencies to experiment, reflect, edit, and hone their research and choreographic process and ultimately develop new work.

McColl Center for Visual Art

McColl Center’s artist-in-residency program facility is a historic, neo-Gothic church in Uptown Charlotte. The Center's goal is to present art and artists in a way that engages and enriches the public while revealing the creative process through open studios, outreaches, community projects, exhibitions and educational programs. Emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists may apply.

The Millay Colony for the Arts

The Millay Colony is located in the Berkshires, and welcomes writers, visual artists, and composers of all ages and all careers levels. International artists are encouraged to apply. The isolated retreat offers artists an opportunity to work without distraction.

Lucas Artists Programs, Montalvo Arts Center

In October 2004, Montalvo opened the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs, replacing the original artists residency program created in 1939. The $10.5 million facilities, designed by six teams of artists and architects, is comprised of 10 discipline-specific live/work studios and one commons building. The Lucas Artists Programs offer facilities and staff supportive of the creative process, state-of-the-art technology and an environment conducive to both individual practice and the energetic exchange of ideas among international and culturally diverse fellows.

Montana Artists Refuge

Located in the tiny town of Basin, Montana Artists Refuge is a place where visual artists, writers, and musicians find quiet and respite from the rigors of modern life. The Montana Artists Refuge is a multidisciplinary residency program, open to all national and international artists.

Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Program

The Museum's Visiting Artist Program is currently by invitation for a 5-day residency in the Museum's Hot Shop assisted by the 3-person resident glassblowing team. Artists may work on a project of their choice and are encouraged to explore and experiment with the medium.

New Pacific Studio - Mount Bruce/Vallejo

New Pacific Studio is a bi-coastal organization that offers residencies for visual artists, writers, and environmentalists in its two 'hermitages' in Vallejo, California and in Mount Bruce, New Zealand. Both programs are open to established artists from all over the world who are interested in engaging with the local community.

Osage Arts Community

Emerging and mid-career visual artists, writers, composers, and artists of all disciplines are encouraged to apply for residency at Osage Arts Community. OAC is located in an isolated rural mountainside setting bordered the Gasconade River, providing a solitary retreat and a country environment to individual artists and collaborative teams.

Omi International Arts Center

Omi International Arts Center hosts international artists, writers, musicians and dancers on 300 acres in the Hudson Valley region of New York, amidst a 10 acre contemporary sculpture park, The Fields Sculpture Park.

Oregon College of Art and Craft Artist-in-Residence Program

OCAC is a place to learn how to think, not what to think, how to craft art, not what art to craft. The residency program provides artists with time to think, and to immerse themselves in the making. Whether an emerging or a nationally known artist; residents have the freedom to explore, experiment, interact and create.

Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency

Ox-Bow, a school of art and artists’ residency, has served as a haven for visual artists since 1910. Ox-Bow offers two distinct residency cycles during the summer and fall seasons. Each season offers the artists who join the residency program a different experience, both rooted in community, but distinct enough to address the various needs of a diverse group of artists.

Penland School of Crafts

The Penland School Resident Artist Program seeks to enrich the total educational experience at Penland by providing a stimulating, supportive environment for artists at transitional points in their careers. Penland resident artists are full-time, self-supporting craftspeople who live and work at the school for three years.

PlatteForum

PlatteForum’s Creative Residencies program offers the opportunity for reflection and intensive creative work. This stipend-based program aims to create an environment where artists create a body of work, interact with youth in the community, and present the work to the public in exhibitions and performances. PlatteForum is located in the heart of Denver's downtown neighborhood, Riverfront Park.

Pontlevoy Creative Residencies

The Creative Residency program provides time and space for individuals and groups to create new works, research innovative ideas, and experiment with different techniques and modes of production. Visual artists and writers are eligible for a residency that promotes interaction with like-minded individuals and studio visits. Visiting Artists present a slide lecture or a reading during their stay at the Abbey which is located in the village of Pontlevoy, a picturesque haven of classic architecture and old world charm.

Prairie Center of the Arts

....Connecting the artist to an environment!

Ragdale Foundation

Ragdale is an artists' retreat that hosts over 200 emerging and established artists of all disciplines each year. These writers, visual artists, and composers come from around the country and the world to work and experience Ragdale's remarkable gifts of community, tranquility, and creativity.

Red Cinder Creativity Center

Red Cinder’s ten-acre property lies on the gentle southerly slope of Mauna Loa volcano located on the Big Island of Hawaii. Red Cinder seeks to serve as a place where serious artists are granted the space, time, and encouragement to pursue their work free of outside distractions.

RedLine

RedLine is an urban laboratory that seeks to nourish the individual practice of contemporary art and to stimulate the creative potential of the local community to which we are linked. RedLine is dedicated to providing emerging and mid-career visual artists with an immersive environment for studio practice, reflection, collegial dialogue and communal service. By offering a state-of-the-art facility, challenging exhibition programs, and strong connections to the institutional and critical vanguards of contemporary art, RedLine provides artists with unparalleled resources for creative growth, greater visibility, and career enhancement. By training artists to serve the community as educators, RedLine inspires and impacts new generations of cultural and civic transformers.

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program

The Roswell Artist-in-Residene Program provides year-long residencies for visual artists.

Instituto Sacatar

The INSTITUTO SACATAR is located on the island of Itaparica in the Bay of All Saints, across from the first capital of Brazil: Salvador, Bahia. Our program provides international transportation, a private room with attached bath, a separate studio and meal service to qualifying artists. Residency sessions generally last eight weeks.

Artists are encouraged to immerse themselves in the culture of Bahia, with its cross-currents from African, Portuguese and indigenous sources. Artists can work on their own, but Sacatar also provides logistical support for artists to work with local and regional individuals or groups on specific projects.

The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

The 200-acre Saltonstall Arts Colony is located near Ithaca, New York, in the heart of the gorgeous Finger Lakes region. Poets, writers, photographers, painters and other visual artists who are New York State residents are eligible to apply for summer residencies.

Santa Fe Art Institute

SFAI brings together an outstanding group of emerging and mid-career visual artists and writers whose practice focuses on the role of the arts in activism: social, cultural and environmental.

Sculpture Space

Sculpture Space is located in the former Utica Steam Engine and Boilerworks plant. Artists-in-residence receive a $2,000 stipend, shared housing, shared studio space (2 private studios are also available) , equipment, technical assistance, and specialized resources available in the Mohawk Valley, to make sculpture on a scale which they otherwise might not afford, in an environment conducive to experimentation. Mid-career, emerging or established professional artists with a focus on sculpture, installation, metalwork, woodwork, conceptual, environmental, performance or multidisciplinary arts may apply.

Sea Change Residencies

Founded in 2001 as a project of the Gaea Foundation, Sea Change Residencies provides time, space, and funds to outstanding artists and activists making critical headway in bringing forward alternative paths to social change. The program offers four to eight week residencies, with stipend, to nominees deeply involved in a wide range of movements, from radical feminism to hip hop theater, anti-globalization to justice for American-Indians.

Sitka Center / Artist and Ecologist Residency Program

The Sitka Center’s Residency Program has provided more than 170 visual artists, writers, musicians, and natural science scholars the opportunity to conduct their work while deeply engaging with the inspirational coastal environment of Cascade Head. Up to four residents at a time, usually from different disciplines and stages in their careers, live and work on campus for one to four months free of charge. The Residency Program fosters cross-disciplinary creative and intellectual work for residents individually and collectively. Sitka’s residents, many of whom are internationally respected and prize-winning, share their work with the local community through presentations, workshops, and service projects.

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Skowhegan, an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction, and growth.

Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat

The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust's Soaring Gardens Artists' Retreat is a residency for working artists. It provides living and studio space in a peaceful rural setting.

Spiro Arts

Spiro Arts is a non-profit Artist-in-Residence (AIR) and workshop center, located in the beautiful Silver Star Resort community in Park City, UT. Situated on a historic mine site, the rustic architecture and newly restored mine buildings provide a unique setting for Spiro's multidisciplinary programs. Spiro Arts is dedicated to supporting artists, researchers, writers and composers in the creation of new works, offering an environment that promotes risk-taking and innovation.

Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts

Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts is sited in the rustic Sierra foothills 50 miles East of Fresno CA. The Residency offers five sessions of four weeks each throughout the year with priority given to arts faculties of colleges, universities, and high schools.

A Studio in the Woods

Changing Landscapes is a 6-week residency based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. We ask artists to describe in detail how the region will affect their work, to propose a public component to their residency and to suggest ways in which they will engage with the local community.

The Studios of Key West

The Studios of Key West is uniquely situated in a tropical and historic community at America's Southernmost Point. The organization, founded in 2006, began building a creative campus in the island's Old Town later that year. Professional staff, programs and services, and new collaborations soon followed.

The TSKW creative community is based in and around the historic Key West Armory, a prominent island building located at the corner of Southard and White Streets. The campus now includes a main exhibition hall, workshop space, 12 upstairs studios, a lush sculpture garden, 4 cottages, and the Mango Tree House for visiting artists and cultural managers.

Our ongoing programming includes an extensive workshop season, free lectures, exhibitions, innovative arts projects, and cultural advancement ideas. To learn more about upcoming residency, program, and partnership opportunities at The Studios of Key West, visit www.tskw.org

Sundance Institute

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work. Since its inception, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, writers, playwrights and theatre artists. The original values of independence, creative risk-taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with US artists and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.

Sustainable Arts Society

The Sustainable Arts Society fosters creative endeavors in visual arts, music, dance, drama, writing, and environmental sustainability in the rural, pristine setting of the North Georgia Mountains of Southern Appalachia. US and international individuals at all stages of their careers and working in a variety of mediums will be empowered to create works of significance in the arts and environmental conservation, to share ideas and inspiration with fellow residents, and to cultivate positive, intellectual growth and change while honoring the cultural and environmental integrity of this unique farm setting.

Taipei Artist Village

Secluded by a serene garden, with vibrant Taipei City as a backdrop for creativity, TAV provides freedom and opportunity for innovation in the making of visual art, music, literature, and performance art and fosters artistic and cultural exchange between Taiwan and the rest of the world.

Teton Artlab

Located in Jackson Hole, one of the world's most beautiful valleys, Teton Artlab supports contemporary art forms by offering affordable studio space and exhibition opportunities to emerging visual artists, in order to foster the development of new work and ideas through experimentation and collaboration.

threewalls

threewalls operates a yearly thematic residency, positioning a group of artists within the city to work in, collaborate, interact and/or make site specific projects that engage a wider audience through project specific presentation strategies. Programming also includes an ongoing studio residency open to all arts and humanities workers and thinkers to come and work and live in Chicago for research, study and production time as well as an exhibition program for local and regional artists.

Ucross Foundation Residency Program

Ucross, on a 20,000-acre working cattle ranch on the High Plains of northeast Wyoming, provides residencies for individuals whose work indicates both involvement in individual creative exploration and significant future accomplishments. Writers, visual artists, composers, scholars and scientists working in all disciplines and from all stages of their professional careers are invited to apply.

Vermont Studio Center

Located in a small New England mill village in the heart of the Green Mountains, the Vermont Studio Center hosts 600 outstanding emerging and mid-career painters, sculptors, new genre artists, printmakers, photographers, poets, and writers from across the country and around the world each year, with up to 50 artists-in-residence at a time.

VCCA France / Le Moulin à Nef

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts now offers residencies, workshops and a variety of cultural programs at Le Moulin à Nef, its studio center in the charming village of Auvillar in the south of France.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

The VCCA is a year-round community that provides a supportive environment for superior national and international visual artists, writers and composers of all economic and cultural backgrounds to pursue their creative work without distraction in a pastoral residential setting.

Wild Orchard Guest Farm

Set on 100 acres in the quiet countryside of Deerfield, New Hampshire, Wild Orchard Guest Farm provides residencies in a beautifully restored 1740’s Colonial Farmhouse. Each room has been decorated with early American Antiques and Fine American Crafts for comfort and homey appeal.

Wildacres Retreat

Wildacres offers one week residencies in the remote "Owl's Nest Cabin". The setting, solitude, and relaxed atmosphere at Wildacres promotes peace and allows the resident total freedom to accomplish what they wish.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild / Byrdcliffe Arts Colony

The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony is located in the Catskill Mountains in historic Woodstock. Founded as an Arts & Crafts community in 1903, it has served as a haven for visual artists, writers, crafts people, musicians and theater artists for almost a century.

Workspace for Choreographers

Thriving on the same mix of caution, tenderness and respect that every living thing seeks, choreographers are invited to explore the relation between their own creative nature and the nature in which we live. Surrounded by wilderness, they often find more trust in process, respect for its timing and direction, and curiosity about where it might take them. There is no pressure to produce.

The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow

The muse is at home in this beautiful, historic Ozark Mountain town. In this setting, The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow offers residencies to experienced and emerging writers in all genres and composers/songwriters.

The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico

Established in 1954, The Helen Wurlitzer Foundation's residency program is one of the oldest in the country, serving as a haven for painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, composers, photographers, and filmmakers.