Artist residencies provide artists, scholars, educators, and other creative professionals with time, space and resources to work, individually or collectively, on the research and development of their practice.
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For artists, the residency experience begins with research. By selecting tag words or phrases and filtering searches based on location, discipline, context, and more, artists will better understand differences in programs and determine which residencies might be a good fit. After creating a filtered search, users can save the list of results. This saved list then becomes a resource for artists throughout the research and inquiry process. Artists can learn more about the residency experience here.
Residency staff and arts administrators may use the directory to find and connect with similar programs based on geography, typology or context. The directory is also a resource for learning about the policies, strategies, and program design of other organizations. Like artists, residency staff and arts administrators can narrow their searches using tags and filters and save the results as a reference list.
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The Longfellow Emerging Artist Fellowship (LEAF) is a bold new initiative from One Longfellow Square, created to support early-career, Maine-based musicians in building sustainable, fulfilling lives as working artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 year - 1 year | 2026 Longfellow Emerging Artist Fellowship |
The Lab’s mission is to provide a retreat-like work and living space to visual artists, scholars, curators, writers, composers, arts professionals and interdisciplinary thinkers drawn to exploring the relationship between visual art and the written word. The Lab is named in honor of New Yor
The goal of the Lucid Art Residency Program is to provide artists with a serene, retreat-like natural environment for creative exploration and inquiry into arts and consciousness.
The LUX Center for the Arts is dedicated to transforming lives through art.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 year - 2 years | LUX Center for the Arts - Ceramic Resident for 2026 - 2027 |
L’AiR Arts is committed to supporting intercultural artistic exchange through international arts residency programs, while promoting diversity, inclusion and international understanding through artistic and cultural heritage.
Ma's House offers short, place-based residencies for US-based BIPOC artists working in visual art, writing, performance, research, sound, film, and interdisciplinary practice.
MacDowell is an artist residency program located in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire. Artists-in-residence need to be comfortable with a degree of solitude and disconnection from the outside world. Studios are comfortably furnished with the artists’ needs in mind.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 10 days - 8 weeks | Spring Summer 2026 |
| 10 days - 8 weeks | MacDowell: Fall 2026 Winter 2027 |
| 10 days - 8 weeks | Spring Summer 2027 (Applications Open August 15, 2026) |
Located on the sixth floor of the Museum and open to the public, the Artist Studios at MAD is a community engagement and professional development program for contempora
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 6 months - 6 months | Artist Residency | Cycle 46 and 47 |
MADE brings together a select group of Creatives from different, but related fields, with different expertise, under the same roof where each can engage and share with one another distinct perspectives, skills, and reflections.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 3 months | MADE Creatives in Residence |
This is an ongoing programme open all year round for artists of all disciplines. The theme and focus of the programme is the emergence of the authentic self through creativity. The programme is self directed and self funded.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 3 months | Time and Space |
Manship Artists Residency is dedicated to the preservation of an environmentally and historically significant site that has been given new life as an international, interdisciplinary artists residency for the benefit of the community and visitors to Cape Ann.
Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center is an accessible and inclusive dance and arts residency center located in the community of Jefferson, NY.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 day - 2 weeks | MAR+RC Artist-in-Residency Open Call |
Marathons engage the practices of drawing, painting, and sculpture as direct methodologies for understanding one’s experience in the world. Open to artists of all levels, courses are taught daily in-person or virtually in real time from 9am–6pm ET.
Marble House Project is a multi-disciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration & the exchange of ideas by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work side by side.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks | Marble House Project AIR 2027 |
Mattering Worlds is an international media art residency exploring artistic practice in relation to more-than-human ecologies, technological infrastructures, and environmental transformation.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 8 weeks | AiR Mattering Worlds | Yerevan, Armenia |
Located in the remote tropical mountain jungle, Mauser Ecohouse creates a unique tranquil, inspirational, health-conscious, and community-minded living experience for the artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 6 months | Mauser EcoHouse-Art, Permaculture, Health |
| 1 month - 1 year | Open Call-C.R.E.A.T.E in Costa Rica - Open Spaces August-December 2026 |
| 1 month - 1 year | Phoenix & Zenith Grant - October 2026 |
The McColl Center's internationally acclaimed Artist-in-Residence program serves as a catalyst for growth for emerging and mid-career artists.
Each summer for the past three years, McLennon Pen Co. has transformed the traditionally quiet month of August into a period of artistic production and public engagement through our Summer Artist-in-Residence program.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 weeks - 5 weeks | 2026 Summer Artist-in-Residence in Austin, Texas |
McNeely Artist Residency at Sonoma Academy
Mentorship Residency Program
Mesa Refuge welcomes a diverse group of writers, filmmakers, audio journalists and other creatives—both emerging and established—who are defining and/or offering solutions to the pressing issues of our time.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 8 days - 8 days | Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellowship |
| 14 days - 14 days | Mesa Refuge 2027 Residencies |
Our Core Residency program -- we will celebrate our 50th anniversary in July 2023 -- is one of the longest-running in country.
The Steepletop Residency, inaugurated in 2021, is a partially-subsized one-month stay; intended for scholars and creatives with institutional or private funding, cost is $3000.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 1 month | Millay Arts: Steepletop Residency Rolling Deadline |
From mid-December through late March yearly we offer the Wintertide Rustic Retreat with reduced-fee stays (does not include food/groceries) from a long weekend to one month. Alumni of our Core and Steepletop residences may also apply to stay for free with work/trade.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 days - 30 days | Wintertide Rustic Retreat |
We provide accepted artists with space and time to create new work without the interruptions of normal life and with the bonus of healthy meals. During each residency, we host visiting artist presentations as well as resident "show & tells" -- both are dessert potlucks.