Residency Programs Profiles

An art residency provides the technical conditions, time, and space to develop ideas and try new approaches. It is a moment that promotes connection between artists from different backgrounds and consequently the exchange of knowledge and experiences.

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.

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

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.

Informed by Indigenous cultures and worldviews, we offer programs in all disciplines for emerging to established Indigenous artists.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.