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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As an emerging community-based organization, Azule has developed a retreat and residency program for craftspeople, writers, architects, builders, researchers, and artists of all types.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 days - 2 months | Open Call: Artist Residency in Appalachia |
Back to Basics
Thematic residency program for artists, writers, designers & creative minds
Periods: 1 month
When: July / August / September 2026
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 1 month | Back to Basics - Thematic Residency Program in Finland, Summer 2026 |
After consulting with the cultural and creative sectors, Banff Centre is proud to launch a new slate of Cultural Leadership Programs, designed for those ready to lead with vision, courage, and creativity.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 6 days - 6 days | Reimagining Cultural Policy: Leading Change Across Governance Systems |
| 6 days - 6 days | Truth and Reconciliation in the Arts |
| 6 days - 6 days | Leading with Purpose |
Informed by Indigenous cultures and worldviews, we offer programs in all disciplines for emerging to established Indigenous artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 weeks - 4 weeks | Write Over Here: Indigenous Futurism Residency 2027 |
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 - 11 months | Spring Writers 2027 |
Mountain Culture at Banff Centre offers exceptional programs and an inspirational setting for writers and filmmakers. Our residency programs provide the time, studio space, facilities, feedback, and engagement with peers and faculty to hone your artistic development.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 days - 4 days | Moonlighter Film Camp - Post Production |
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 | Musical Theatre Dancers Intensive 2027 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Soundweavings 2027 |
| 5 weeks - 5 weeks | Audio Recording Engineer: Soundweavings 2027 |
| 3 days - 3 months | Everyone is Interesting with Mammalian Diving Reflex - Theatre Alberta's Workshops by Request: Bow Valley Serie |
| 1 week - 2 weeks | Independent Residency: Theatre & Dance 2027-28 |
| 1 week - 2 weeks | Independent Residency: Music 2027-28 |
| 3 weeks - 3 weeks | Dancers Intensive: Colossus with Stephanie Lake Company |
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 - Sounding Like a Mountain |
Banff Centre’s Digital Arts department is being reawakened with fresh purpose. Following a quieter period, we are stepping boldly back into Digital Arts programming and studio development, with a renewed focus on experimentation, innovation, and the future of creative practice.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a 3-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers in the beautif
Providing Time, Space and Inspiration is the founding principle of Burren College of Art.
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.
bEam arts is an artist residency in Thessaloniki, Greece. bEam arts is an independent, artist-led organisation dedicated to supporting artists across the visual arts, design, film, literature, and curatorial practices.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 2 months | International artist residency in Greece |
| 1 month - 2 months | bEam arts writers residency |
Expanding on Bearnstow’s long history, we welcome individual artists and small groups of collaborative partners in any discipline to submit proposals to our Artist Retreat program.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week | Bearnstow 2026 Artist Retreat and Family Artist Retreat |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 8 weeks - 3 months | Artist-in-Residence Open Call: May 20–August 14, 2026 |
| 8 weeks - 8 weeks | Artist-in-Residence Open Call Fall 2026: September 10-November 14, 2026 |
BenAmil is a rural artist residency in El Cedral, Cozumel, in the Mexican Caribbean. Surrounded by gardens and jungle, the program offers artists and cultural practitioners time and space to develop artistic or cultural projects in an island context.
The call is intended to support a production residency, a period of work and creation that will lead
to the realization of an exhibition at Marignana Project. The experience, which will take place
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 |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 2 weeks | Call for Artists! Bethany Arts Community 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency |
Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress.
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 months - 4 months | Call for Emerging Artists! 2026 Emerging Artist Fellowship at Bethany Arts Community |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks - 3 weeks | Creative Residency |
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.