New York

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild provides a vibrant center for excellence in the arts and crafts in the beautiful and unique rural community of Woodstock, New York, while preserving the historic and natural environment of one of the earliest utopian art colonies in America. It offers an inspiring combination of residency, educational, exhibition, and performance programs that encourage creative collaboration among artists, students, arts professionals, and the public.   Disciplines: Visual artists, ceramics artists, music composition, playwriting/screenwriting, prose, poetry.

Disciplines: Established creative and non-fiction writers, and artists not requiring exceptional facilities are eligible applicants.   Session: 1 month; mid-June through October 1.   Description: The admissions committee is particularly interested in a fine work that evinces social and ecological concern and is aimed at a general audience. Please see website for session information and deadlines.

Discipline: Artists of all disciplines, architects, innovators, scientists, and educators.   Eligibility: Applications accepted from “international working contemporary artists.”   Session: Several weeks (expedition on sailing ship in the Arctic)   Description: Artist and scientist-led, The Arctic Circle is an annual expeditionary residency program. The Arctic Circle provides a shared experience for its participants to engage in myriad issues relevant to our time and to develop professionally through interdisciplinary collaborations, exhibit opportunities, and public and classroom engagement.

Discipline(s): Film/Video (including narrative, documentary and experimental films, animation, and screenplays); Music Composition; Performance & Media (including choreography, performance art, sound art, and multi-media productions); Visual Art; and Writing (including playwriting and screenwriting).   Eligibility: Mid-career, professional level. International artists and small collaborations of 2-3 individuals.   Session: Mid-May – February, 2 weeks – 2-month sessions   Description: Room, board and workspace.

Discipline(s): Writing (including playwriting and screenwriting); Music Composition, Performance Art, Media Arts (including multimedia, film, and video); and Visual Arts.   Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career artists   Session: April – November, 1-month long sessions   Description: 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. The Colony offers comfortable private rooms, private studio spaces and ample time to work in a quiet, pastoral atmosphere. Room, board, and workspace provided.

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…

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…

Discipline: painting photography, sculpture, video, installation, and new media   Eligibility: emerging, mid-career, and hard-working artists   Residencies: 8/year • Session: 3-6 months   Deadlines: Mid-May LMCC’s Program Name, Month, Year Page 5 of 31 • Description: The residency offers 24-hour studio access, the opportunity to present work to curators and critics through AAI-organized studio visits, a curated exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and exposure to a broadened general audience during bi-annual Open Studios. Working within the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, a large multipurpose studio building, residency participants will also have the opportunity to engage with other building artists, some new to the neighborhood and others have worked in the LES for several decades.