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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O Castro Art Village is a rural creative residency in Galicia, Spain, located in the forested hills and river valleys of Ribeira Sacra.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 2 months | Self-funded Creative Residency in Galicia, Spain |
Situated on 320 acres of farm and forest bordering the Hurricane Mountain Wilderness area in New York's Adirondack Mountains, Craigardan's creative residencies are open-minded and place-based by design. We welcome all proposals and encourage multi- and interdisciplinary thinking.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 3 months | Call for Summer Residency Applications |
| 1 week - 3 months | Call for Winter Residency Applications |
Mount Sequoyah and The Alternative Arts School (TAAS) are partnering to launch a two-week artistic residency program for the summer of 2026 from June 21st to July 5th.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 13 days - 15 days | Mount Sequoyah Center & The Alternative Art School: Ozark Art Residency |
CREEKSIDE ARTS offers an Artist-in-Residence Program that is a unique opportunity to reflect, create and explore in an inspiring setting among the Redwoods of Northern California.
Crosstown Arts, situated in Memphis, TN, welcomes both visiting and local artists and curators to its multidisciplinary artist residency program, spanning various creative disciplines including visual arts, music, film, and literature.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 months - 3 months | Crosstown Arts: 2027 Residencies |
If you ever dreamed of spending an extended period of time in Cuba simply making art, then this residency is ripe for your consideration.
The Respite hosts cultural residencies for creative artists and healing practitioners, prioritizing queer, trans, nonbinary and/or black, indigenous, cultural workers of colors’ working, resting or scheming for our collective liberation.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 days - 30 days | Spring Ephemerals in the South |
This Residency Program is a fully funded collaboration between O Castro Art Village, Culture Moves Europe program of the European Foundation, and the Goethe Institut.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 1 month | Open Call: Architect in Residence Galicia, Spain |
| 1 month - 1 month | Open Call: Sound Artist in Residence Galicia, Spain |
| 1 month - 1 month | Open Call: Visual / Mixed-Media Artist in Residence Galicia, Spain |
In an inspirational setting far removed from the distractions of daily life, Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency offers two week-long residency sessions each year.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 7 days - 7 days | 2026 Fall Residency |
| 5 days - 5 days | 2026 Plein Air Oil Painting Workshop |
Daro's Enclave is a private family home on 60 perches of ancestral land in Kamburugamuwa, southern Sri Lanka, offered as a self-directed residency for researchers, writers, artists, and independent professionals who need a real base in the south
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 6 months | Daro's Enclave |
DEEP SPACE is a performance residency program for artists and groups who are experimenting and making new works along the fringes of the mainstream.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 1 week | 2028 Deep Space Performance Residency |
Every year, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program welcomes artists of all disciplines and grants them the gift of time and space: a four-week residency on our 583-acre ranch in Northern California's Santa Cruz Mountains.
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program is located in a rural setting in the Santa Cruz Mountains, one hour south of San Francisco.
Dorland Mountain Arts is a beautiful retreat where artists, writers, musicians, and composers can create in a secluded and protected natural setting. Dorland is located near Temecula Valley Wine Country, about 100 miles south of Los Angeles and sixty miles north of San Diego.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 6 weeks | Residency Program |
| 1 week - 6 weeks | Arts California: Dorland Mountain Arts |
| 1 week - 6 weeks | 2026/2027 Dorland Residencies |
| 1 week - 6 weeks | Your Time! at Dorland Mountain Arts |
We invite you to join our artist-led guided walks, mindful retreats, and walking studios on the picturesque trails of the Camino de Santiago in the north of Spain.
Dream Factory Sound Sanctuary (DFSS) is a nonprofit artist residency and recording studio located in the quiet high desert of Southern California.
The Provincetown Community Compact announces 2026 dune shack residency applications are now open for C-Scape and Fowler Dune Shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore, available April through November. Applications are due January 15, 2026. thecompact.org/dune-shacks.html
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 3 weeks | Dune Shack Residencies in the Cape Cod National Seashore |
The Echo Artist Residency Program invites two artists each quarter to experiment and create site-specific projects for our galleries and the greater Cleveland community.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 weeks - 6 weeks | SPACES 2027 Open Call |
An Ecology of Exchange is a 3.5-week self-funded residency in Joshua Tree, California for writers, poets, musicians, choreographers, dance artists, and artists working in ephemeral, performance, or video installation forms.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks - 4 weeks | Ecology of Exchange |
In the face of global ecological concerns such as climate change, rising sea levels, deforestation, human overpopulation and species extinction, the mission of the Ecology Residency is to provide ecologists, environmental journalists, filmmakers, inventors, educators, architects and others w
Ecotones is a consortium of biological field stations and marine labs that host artist residencies and other arts activities. As transition zones between two different environments, ecotones are rich environments.
Emerson Dorsch Artist Residency (EDAR) invites artists and thinkers to renew, reflect, and create on a 68-acre site in Western North Carolina.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University offers a five-month residency (January through May 2025) in the Art Department, which is composed of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Ceramics, Fibers and Material Studies, Glass, Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM, Painting, Photogra
EIAF 2026–2027 Artist in Residence Program | Applications Open
Elf School of the Arts is a nonprofit artist residency in Hayesville, NC. Situated beside the Appalachian Mountains and Lake Chatuge. Elf was originally an elementary school started in 1928 but has been renovated from 2022-2024 into an artist residency and concert venue.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 week - 12 weeks | January-March 2027 Residency |