Marathons: Intensive Workshops in Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture

CREEKSIDE ARTS offers an Artist-in-Residence Program that is a unique opportunity to reflect, create and explore in an inspiring setting among the Redwoods of Northern California. Preference will be given to applications that demonstrate a project focus on what is dear to our community: Land, place, community, nature, climate, education, and social and political consciousness.

We provide an inspiring natural setting among the coastal redwoods of Northern California for individuals as well as collaborative artistic work and expression. We welcome artists from a broad range of creative disciplines. We provide a unique opportunity to reflect, create and explore away from the hectic demands and constraints of daily life.

Our location in the heart of the redwoods and home of the Wiyot people provides a natural setting that guides our commitment to a healthy and sustainable environment. Our program facilitates an exchange of creative thought and expression between participants, the neighborhood, and the larger Northern California community with a focus on new work with a social and political consciousness.

Our three-week programs provide each artist with fully equipped private living quarters and private work/studio spaces. In addition to providing a space for solitary work, our program supports and encourages a collaborative atmosphere. Evening gatherings provide an opportunity to get to know the other resident artists as well as the permanent members of the Creekside Arts community.

The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects of environmental degradation. These injuries – the historical to the present – affect our bodies, families, communities, and cultures, as well as the land and its other creatures.  We encourage artists to guide our collective response as the caretakers and caregivers to our universe while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional and timely projects seeking transformation for our species and planet.

We offer solo residencies of 1-3 weeks in a well-appointed cottage in deep woods above Hammersley Inlet on Puget Sound. The cottage is five miles from Shelton, a small logging town. Residents are responsible for their own transportation to Holly House, and preparing their own food. The small kitchen has a two-burner countertop stove, under-counter refrigerator, broiler oven, microwave, and coffeemaker. A loft bedroom has writing/drawing space, and there is a pull-out sofa bed downstairs for those who do not want to have to use stairs. 

The cottage has a ramped entry and spacious bathroom, but is not fully ADA compliant, and the grounds are not particularly wheelchair-friendly. Residents with some disabilities are welcome to bring a helper by arrangement with the board. We are a small nonprofit, and a working board; there is no staff. However, volunteers provide clean linens; we ask residents to spend a few hours at the end of their stay cleaning the house for the next resident.

The place is good accommodation for writers, visual artists, academics, playwrights and artists in other fields. There is decent wifi through a sharing arrangement with the next-door neighbors. There are paths in the woods and great hiking and saltwater access nearby. Residents are required to have a vehicle on the premises for their own safety in case of evacuation orders. 

Fall into Focus

Fall into Focus is an international residency program for artists, writers and researchers who want to concentrate on their creative practice/project, writing or research.

Periods: 1 (29 days/period)
When: September / October / November 2024
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland

Application deadline: 2nd of May 2024

Read more & apply at: https://www.arteles.org

I-Park’s 2024 Composers + Musicians Collaborative Residency, fourth in the series, is looking to award 5 composers an opportunity to create new repertoire for Hub New Music, a hot emerging ensemble from Ann Arbor, for a 9-day collaborative residency in August. Composers will receive many hours of workshop and rehearsal time with the ensemble, lodging and meals, a $2,500 stipend, a New York City premiere and rights to use the post-residency studio recordings of their works for promotional purposes. The goal is to put the musicians and composers in an intimate, collegial setting as they put the finishing touches on their new compositions.  Importantly, the ensemble is committed to aggressively promoting, and performing, these compositions over the course of the next 3 to 4 years. The application deadline for this program is April 1. Details and application materials are available at the link above.

The Monira Residency Chicago is a 12-month residency that provides established working artists with a nurturing environment in which to create their work. This year, open call is March 25- April 26, 2024, and will award the one artist a studio. All applicants must be at least 21, American citizens or residents of the United States during the residency period, not be enrolled in a degree-granting program or other residencies at the time of their residency, and be able to demonstrate an understanding of our program. We encourage artists working in all media and in interdisciplinary practices to apply. The residency will begin in August 2024. Applications may be submitted by individual artists or from artist collaborations who are looking to create new works.

Selected Artists have access to a private 300 sq/ft studio for their 12-month residency. The space has a basic studio work table, chairs, and access to a small portable wood floor if requested. It is adaptable to artists’ needs and has electrical outlets and internet access. The Foundation will also supply a $500 honorarium to the lead applicant to support their work.