Residencies
Discipline: Dance Description: Programs include the “Choreographic Fellows” program, “Living Legacy” program, and the “Mid-Career Artist in Residence Program.”
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Discipline(s): Choreography/Dance, Music Composition, Performance Art, Writing (including playwriting and screenwriting); Visual Art, Media Arts (including sound art, film, and video); Design and Interdisciplinary Arts. Session: Year-round; average stay is 4 weeks with a maximum stay of 8 weeks. Description: The MacDowell Colony facilitates a balance between focused work and interdisciplinary interaction, among composers, writers, and visual artists. This retreat-style residency was founded in 1907 and is situated on 450 acres in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. Room, board, and workspace provided.
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Discipline(s): Directing, Playwriting Description: Dedicated to the creation of activities which foster cultural exchange and international understanding, the center provides the opportunity for culturally diverse artists to live together while working on productions or participating in workshops and to develop their artistic skills immersed in a creative, natural environment. $2,700/session
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Discipline(s): Literature (playwriting, poetry), Music/Composition, Film/Video, Visual Arts (painting, sculpture, photography) Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career artists, U.S. and international candidates welcome. Session: Jan-April, mid-May to mid-August, Sept-Nov; 2-3 months residencies Description: The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, est. 1954, is one of the oldest artist residency programs in the country. The Foundation keeps a low profile and serves as a haven for artists of numerous disciplines. Located on 18 acres in the heart of Taos, NM, a four hundred-year-old multicultural community renowned for its popularity with artists. Fully furnished guesthouses (rent and utility free) and studios provided; artists are responsible for travel, meals and materials costs.
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Discipline(s): Performing Arts, including choreography, dance, music composition, directing (film & theatre), and storytelling; Visual Arts; Media Arts; Writing, including screenwriting and playwriting; and Scholarship (art conversation, art education, art history, criticism, environmentalism/conversation) Eligibility: Artists of all levels are encouraged to apply; however, artists pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees may not apply while enrolled in degree-granting programs. Former Artists in Residence must wait five years to re-apply. Session: March – November; 4-10 week sessions, 35 artists a year Description: 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…
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Discipline(s): Media & Performing Artists, including Audio Production/Post Production, Video Production/Post Production Eligibility: Full-time students are ineligible. EMPAC encourages projects that may require an interdisciplinary team, potentially including staff, faculty, and students. Session: Varies according to project need – can be short-term of long-term. Deadlines: Proposals are reviewed three times a year. Application deadlines are January 17th, May 14th, and September 17th. . Description: Artists’ projects will intersect with research in science, engineering and the humanities, challenge and inform each other, and lead to new approaches and insights in all these disciplines. To this end, EMPAC provides an environment that supports the realization of complex works at any stage from inception to completion. Along with a state-of-the-art facility, EMPAC offers residents…
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Discipline(s): Performing Art, including Choreography, Dance, Music Composition; Video and Sound Art, Visual Literary Art, Curators, Arts Administrators, Architects, and other creative thinkers. Eligibility: Mid-late career. International applicants welcome. Session: 1-3 months Description: The Foundation provides live-work space in Venice, inclusive of utilities, and Wi-Fi or Ethernet access to the internet. All spaces have telephones for local calls only, full kitchens, and facilities for washing clothes. The Foundation provides neither stipends, nor meals, nor travel expenses. Residents must procure their own working materials, and will be expected while in Venice to be financially self-sufficient.
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Discipline(s): Music Composition, Writing (including playwriting and screenwriting) Eligibility: Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all emerging to late career artists to apply. Session: 4 – 6 week sessions from mid-May – October Description: 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. Writers and composers receive a large bedroom equipped with a desk, bed and dresser. The environment is simple and communal and all residents are expected to do their share in maintaining the condition of “The Barn” as well as its peaceful environment. All residents are responsible for their food, travel…
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Discipline(s): Choreography, Music Composition, Literature, Visual Arts, and Media Arts/New Genre Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career artists. International applicants welcome. Students are not eligible for residencies. Session: Mid-March – mid-November; 4-5 week sessions Description: The Artists’ Barn contains three visual art studios, a large dance studio, a darkroom, and a music composition studio with a baby grand and electric piano. The studios are rustic with wood burning stoves and modest sleeping lofts. There is also a kitchen, a large common area, shared bathrooms, and laundry facilities in the Barn. The Djerassi Resident Artists Program is internationally recognized as one of the eminent artist residency programs. We strive to provide the best possible residency experience for artists of superior talent from a diverse range…
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Discipline(s): Music, Theatre, Dance, Performance Art, Visual Art, Literary Art, Scientists, Designers, Architects and Engineers Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career, ensembles, and collaborations welcome to apply. Session: January – March, 1-month sessions Deadline: Mid-June. • Description: Residents are given a cabin, 24-hour access to studios and the time and space to create. Residents are responsible for food, travel, materials and other expenses. By design, the residents form a small community of 5–12 artists, depending on the group. A weekly meal is shared and collaboration is encouraged.
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