Jentel Artist Residency
Located 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming, the Jentel Artist Residency, now in its 25th year, offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment to further their artistic development. Jentel offers 3-week residencies from mid-January through early December with private studios and access to Wyoming's natural beauty in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. We welcome visual artists in all mediums; writers in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry; and composers in all genres of music.
Five new and two renovated structures evoke the agricultural and historical setting of the Lower Piney Creek Valley and echo the sweeping lines of the foothills and mountains. Accommodations for each resident include a private room, a shared living area and kitchen, and a separate studio space.
130 Lower Piney Road
Banner, WY 82832
United States
Residency Program Information
Residency Program Summary
Application Information
Jentel awards residencies to artists, writers, and composers who are focused and serious about their practices. Residencies are intended to be professional development opportunities for visual artists in any medium; writers in fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry; and composers across musical genres. Proposals for self-directed residencies should be compatible with available studio spaces, facilities, and resources. Artistic merit and promise form the basis for selections. Mature as well as emerging artists are encouraged to apply.
Applicants must be 25 years of age to be eligible for a residency. Applicants must also be US citizens or reside in the US during the year of the residency for which they are applying. Applicants in post-doc fellowships are eligible for a residency; students enrolled full-time (9 hours or more) in an academic program are not.
- Each resident receives a $300 stipend distributed in weekly installments to defray the cost of living and food expenses during the residency.
- The application fee is $30.
- A $100 reservation deposit is due one month after notification of the residency award and confirms the residency. The deposit is non-refundable if the reservation is cancelled less than two months before the residency starts.
- Aside from the application fee, there are no additional charges to attend the residency.
Jentel’s review panelists are visual art, literary, and music professionals who review and rate applications twice a year. Panelists are routinely rotated.
Jentel welcomes the participation of artists from all backgrounds and does not discriminate with regard to age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, marital status, or nation of origin in its admission policies.
APPLICATION DEADLINES:
JANUARY 15 for residencies in May through November
SEPTEMBER 15 for residencies in January through April
Accessibility
The Visual Art Studios, Writer Studios, and The Residence (which includes private bedrooms in addition to shared living, dining, and kitchen areas) are all on the ground level. The Studios and The Residence are separated by a small gravel parking lot. The Composer Studio is a short walk from The Residence.
Jentel offers studios on the ground level, engagement with the cohort of visual artists, writers, and composers in the living and dining areas of The Residence and a spacious private bedroom on the same level.
In The Residence, the loft area housing the library and a media room is on a second level accessible only by stairs. The bathrooms are not wheelchair-accessible. The Jentel Office is nearby, but it is on an upper level of the campus accessible by steps inset in the hillside. The Jentel vehicle for airport pick up and return as well as for weekly trips into Sheridan for groceries and errands is not equipped with a wheelchair lift.
Housing & Accomodation
Studio & Facilities
The visual artist studios are located in a pole barn, a metal ranch outbuilding that is outfitted with ventilation and lighting to accommodate four artists with large, individual 400-square-foot studio spaces.
Flat, fourteen-foot ceilings enhance the spaciousness of each studio. A small, single window maximizes the amount of running, usable wall space (11’, 13’ and 24’ continuous running feet) for two-dimensional work.
Studios are equipped with:
- two worktables (one on wheels and glass, topped at 76 x 34 inches, and the other metal topped at 34 x 60 inches)
- a standard wooden straight back chair
- an adjustable stool on wheels
- a full length mirror
- a day bed
- a utility sink with hot and cold water
- a small metal trash can
- a closed metal cabinet
- a paper towel dispenser
- broom and dust pan
- good overhead light with both track and fluorescent lights on separate controls
- Commercial air handler (ventilation system) for each of the [4] studios
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Two separate writer studios are located in a cabin offering each writer a comfortably-furnished private space. The two studios have large windows and separate climate controls.
Studios are equipped with:
- a writing desk and adjustable office chair
- a desk lamp
- a reclining lounge chair
- book shelves
- overhead track lighting
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Both buildings are a short stroll across the gravel parking lot from The Residence.
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