Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies
Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies invite artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future.
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.
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Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies invite artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future.
The mission of Rock Street Artist Residency (RSAR) is to provide a unique space for artists to immerse themselves in their creative process, set against the inspiring backdrop of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 3 weeks | Rock Street Artist Residency |
The Croft Residency is a small residency on the hill facing South located in Horton Bay Michigan. The residency is on a 20 acre parcel of land on a dead end street. The residency overlooks Lake Charlevoix. Our main studio space is a large outdoor deck for dancing.
For over fifty years the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program has provided talented artists a year-long opportunity to focus on their creative work. The Roswell Residency is not project-based nor engagement driven, providing the artist an opportunity to look inwardly.
Imagine waking up to the sound of the forest, walking stone paths worn smooth by generations, and sharing a meal with people who have lived their whole lives in the same valley. Then opening your laptop. Picking up your tools.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 1 month | Rural Hackers Residency |
Every year during the second weekend in July, Watershed welcomes guests to campus for our annual ceramics picnic, Salad Days.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
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| 7 months - 7 months | Salad Days Artist Residency |
Established in 1939, Montalvo Arts Center is home to the third oldest residency program in the United States. In 2004, Montalvo recommitted to its support of artists and opened a new, state-of-the-art facility, relaunching as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program.
Salt Road Studio Residency is a fully funded international artist residency located in Akō, Japan, a historic coastal city overlooking the Seto Inland Sea.
A quiet studio. A beautiful setting. Time for inspiration.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 4 weeks | 2026 Residencies |
Theatrical Jazz Crossroads is an interdisciplinary artist residency and creative laboratory exploring Theatrical Jazz, a Black performance methodology rooted in improvisation, ensemble practice, rhythm, call-and-response, embodied storytelling, and collective co
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 days - 6 days | Saltwater Road Presents: Theatrical Jazz Virtual Creative Laboratory with Sharon Bridgforth |
The Santa Fe Art Institute Thematic Residency Program supports dynamic creative practices that engage complex social issues, inspire individual transformation, and inform collective action. SFAI welcomes local, national, and international applicants of all backgrounds.
HUG DONKEYS!
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 7 days - 4 weeks | Taste of Tennessee, writer retreats |
| 1 month - 1 month | Homestead Experience - July 2026 |
| 10 days - 2 weeks | Japan 2027 - castle towns and art islands - residency on the road group travel |
| 7 days - 4 weeks | Autumnal Harvest Season |
| 7 days - 2 months | Spring Pops - May/June in Tennessee |
The Scherbarth Residency Program provides lodging and studio space to artists and makers in the visual, performing, and literary arts to participate in the creative community at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, and the rural community of Mineral Po
Since 1976, Sculpture Space has been a launchpad for more than 630 visionary artists from across the globe—a place where bold ideas take shape and connections spark across materials, cultures, and generations.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 months - 2 months | Sculpture Space 2027 Open Call (Nov 2025) |
The Seattle Prize is dedicated to identifying, nurturing, and generously supporting exceptional artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 year - 1 year | Seattle Prize |
“The Seeker’s Sabbatical” is an on-farm, artist-in-residence program for creatives, thinkers and justice seekers of all persuasions whose work is making a generous contribution to healing - personal or planetary.
The climate crisis is an urgent global concern.
Artists, writers, performers, musicians, and creative professionals of all disciplines are encouraged to customize their time and conduct self-directed residencies. Projects might be the creative work of an individual or encompass the collaborative work of a group.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 4 weeks | Self-Directed Residencies (2027) |
The Seward Creative District Artist Residency offers artists a rare gift: time and space to do the work that matters.
Resident artists will be embedded with a local community organization during the first week of residency to learn about the mission and goals of the organization, so as to be inspired with ideas for creative projects which will engage a broader cross-section of the public in those goals and missi
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
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| 6 weeks - 6 weeks | Kent Cultural Alliance - Spring 2026 Residency Session |
The artist residency program at Shadowcliff brings together a diverse group of artists, creatives, researchers, and cultural caretakers from around the country, providing them with time, space, and access to the rich natural and cultural resources of Grand County.
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Its mission is to provide working studio space and community for artists.
Sheepscot Arts Preserve is a new artist residency center that is dedicated to supporting Visionary, Outsider and Narrative (Visual) Artists of all disciplines with an emphasis on visual artists. We are located on 42 beautiful acres bordering the Sheepscot River in Alna, Maine.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 10 days - 2 weeks | 2026 Artist Residencies July-October |
Away from the congested urban life of Japan and surrounded by mountains in the small town of Onishi (ogre stone) in Gunma prefecture, artists can work free from outside distractions.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 6 weeks | 2027 Shiro Oni Studio Artist in Residence Program |
Silence Awareness Existence
Thematic residency program in Finland, Winter 2027
Periods: 1 month
When: January / February / March 2027
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 1 month | Silence Awareness Existence - residency program in Finland, Winter 2026 |
| 1 month - 1 month | Silence Awareness Existence Thematic residency program in Finland, Winter 2027 |