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Thematic residency program for artists, writers and creative professionals
Periods: 1 month
When: May / June / July / August 2024
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
Informed by Indigenous cultures and worldviews, we offer programs in all disciplines for emerging to established Indigenous artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 days - 6 months | Indigenous Haute Couture – Creation & Embellishments 2025 |
Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs provide an inspiring space and focused time for emerging and established writers to push the boundaries of their talent and realize their potential.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 12 days - 12 months | Horror Writing 2025 |
| 12 days - 12 months | Literary Journalism 2025 |
| 12 days - 12 days | Summer Writers 2025 |
| 12 days - 12 days | Science Fiction 2025 |
| 3 weeks - 3 weeks | Mountain Writers Intensive 2025 |
Create the Unforgettable: Dedicated to creating contemporary works in dance, music, opera, theatre, and interdisciplinary art forms. Hands-on training and professional development for artists and technicians at every career stage.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 days - 6 months | Soundweavings: Intercultural Music Residency 2025 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Audio Engineer: Soundweavings 2025 | Professional Training Program |
| 5 days - 6 months | Jazz & Sonic Arts 2025 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Audio Engineer: Jazz & Sonic Arts 2025 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Interplay 2025 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Props Builder: Interplay 2025 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Wardrobe Technician: Interplay 2025 |
Visual Arts at Banff Centre offers exceptional programs for professional artists, curators, and art critics and researchers, as well as practicum opportunities for emerging practitioners.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 weeks - 5 weeks | Visual Arts - Kapishkum: Métis Gathering |
| 5 weeks - 5 weeks | Early Career Banff Artist in Residence - Summer 2025 |
Dance Lab at Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) offers resources for dance-based artists to research, expand, and rebuild work at varying stages of development.
The BCA Playwright Residency supports rising playwrights by providing space to write, rehearse, and workshop a new work.
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is accepting applications for our next Studio Residency cohort starting in the Fall of 2024, providing work-only studio space in BCA’s Artist Studios Building in Boston’s South End, along with other programmatic benefits. Studio space is located in BCA's Art
Founded in 1981, by artists for artists, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs.
Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress.
Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 8 days - 8 days | Call for Poets! Bethany Arts Community: Poetry Residency Spring 2025 |
The Bethany Arts Community Emerging Artist Fellowship is designed to offer a creative home to emerging artists, ages 21+, as they transition and deepen their professional careers and artistic practice.
Zaccho Dance Theatre’s Black Futures Artist in Residence Program is open to diverse voices, emerging and established, called to express the Black experience through an arts practice that inspires dialogue and builds community.
The mission of the Creative Residency program at Bloedel Reserve is to foster creative thinking that is inspired by nature and that explores the connection between humans and the environment.
BOOM Concepts is a creative hub dedicated to the advancement of Black, Brown, Queer and Femme artists. BOOM Concepts is located in Pittsburgh and since 2014 has curated 50 exhibitions on-site, paid out over $100k in artists fees and produced 200+ events across the country.
Considered Boston’s most comprehensive dance-focused residency, the Boston Dancemakers Residency is designed to support new work from conception to performance.
The City of Richmond’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Services invites professional artists in all disciplines (including writers, composers, visual artists, musicians, theatre artists, video, multi-disciplinary and performance artists) to submit proposals for an 11-month live-in residency to begin i
The focus of Bryn Du’s Artist in Residence program is to enhance local awareness and engagement in the arts by introducing new and varied artists to the Granville community throughout the calendar year.
The Buinho Residency program is directed at creatives and researchers from different backgrounds.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 2 months | Buinho Residency Program: AiR Spring 2025 - Portugal |
| 2 weeks - 2 months | Buinho Residency Program: AiR 2025 - Portugal |
Byrdcliffe’s Artists-in-Residence (AiR) program offers artists in all disciplines uninterrupted time to live and work within the serene natural setting and creative community of Woodstock’s historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, one of the earliest utopian and continuously operating arts colonies in Am
The Camargo Fellowship is the flagship program of the Camargo Foundation. Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation has awarded residencies to nearly 1500 individuals as part of its mission to support advanced research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities.
Center for the Arts Evergreen’s (CAE’s) Artist-in-Residence Program offers the opportunity for emerging and established artists to foster creativity and community engagement while developing both new works and works-in-progress.
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill offers 3 month Ceramic Artist in Residence Programs during the winter, which are designed to provide time and facilities to artists looking for a concentrated creative experience.
The Eureka Springs School of the arts is looking for practicing ceramics artists who are seeking focused time to refine their skills, create work and/or explore new avenues within their medium.
Chalk Hill Artist Residency is a unique opportunity for artists across mediums to work and stay at the beautiful Warnecke Ranch and Vineyard. The program is located in Sonoma County, an hour and a half north of San Francisco.