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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Our Writers in Residence Program supports free-to-writers residencies for selected women-identified writers at the retreat each year. Up to 7 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in a handcrafted cottage.
Short-term artist residencies in a natural, rustic environment
Situated on the eastern shore of Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine, Hewnoaks provides artists across all disciplines and career stages unencumbered time to think, work, and experiment.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 7 days - 10 days | 2026 Hewnoaks Summer Residency |
We offer solo residencies of 1-3 weeks in a well-appointed cottage in deep woods above Hammersley Inlet on Puget Sound. The cottage is five miles from Shelton, a small logging town. Residents are responsible for their own transportation to Holly House, and preparing their own food.
The multidisciplinary General Residency Program is our foundational residency structure. I-Park supports artists and designers working in the following creative disciplines: Music Composition, Creative Writing, Moving Image, Architecture, Landscape/Garden Design and Visual Arts.
These residencies have public-facing components that could be a workshop, a temporary installation, a performance, or another type of community engagement at some point during the residency. Stipends and funds for these vary and are project-specific. These happen throughout the year.
Trillium Arts envisions an artist residency center where artists of many disciplines can find a creative home away from home, offering secluded space for rejuvenation in a beautiful, remote setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 7 days - 7 days | Trillium Arts: Spring 2026 Individual Artists Applications |
The Interdisciplinary Residency program is our flagship residency program – started in 2021, we plan to award about 32 Interdisciplinary Residencies annually.
Established in 2019 in the Hudson Valley in Livingston, NY, Interlude Artist Residency is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting a flourishing practice for visual artists who are actively parenting.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks - 3 weeks | Interlude's 2026 Open Call! |
The Watermill Center's longest-standing program, The International Summer Program unites a community of international artists for a creative intensive at our East End Campus each summer.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks - 4 weeks | The Watermill Center: 2026 International Summer Program |
Program Dates: February 9-17, 2026
Itinera Arte is an independent platform for contemporary art based in Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to the research, education, and dissemination of artistic practices.
The Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Center connects artists deeply with their own practice in the context of our vibrant, multifaceted community.
Boise City Department of Arts & History invites emerging and mid-career artists in any creative field to apply for a two-week or a two-month residency at the James Castle House in Boise, Idaho.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 months - 2 months | James Castle House Artist Residency (2-Month) |
| 15 days - 15 days | James Castle House Artist Residency (2-week) |
The Jentel Artist Residency offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment to further their creative development.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 21 days - 21 days | Jentel Residency Summer/Fall 2025 Open Call |
| 21 days - 21 days | Jentel Residency Winter/Spring Open Call |
At the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, we offer artists dedicated time and space for the creative process through residencies ranging from 6 to 14 weeks in length.
Residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center provide the crucial elements of time and space for artistic experimentation—while offering artists opportunities to engage with arts professionals, partner arts organizations, and others in the community.
Jonas Mekas spent a lifetime making film, media, and art accessible to everyone through his relentless pursuit to document the everyday and raise the profile of makers not in the mainstream.
The annual Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency was established in 2002 to provide working artists with little or no printmaking experience the opportunity to explore a new creative medium with guidance, instruction and technical assistance from a professional etching printer, Julia D'Amario.
Josephine Sculpture Park's Arist-in-Residence (AiR) program is hosted at the 40-acre park in Franklin County, Kentucky. The AiR program will welcome up to 2 artists for a site planning visit in 2025 and a residency period of up to 10 weeks in 2026.
The Kaatsbaan Cultural Park Weekend Retreat Residency Program provides opportunities for artists of all genres to create, live, and collaborate in the idyllic countryside of the Hudson Valley.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 days - 21 days | Kaatsbaan Subsidized Residencies Open Call |
Since 2001, KHN has hosted more than 50 working artists each year. Each has found privacy in which to create along with ample opportunities to interact with fellow residents in the vibrant rural town of Nebraska City, Nebraska.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 8 weeks | 2026 Session II Residencies |
We are a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational cooperative of creatives, educators, and farmers with a common mission to create a community based on shared values and democratic principles.
KODA offers an artist residency program for two mid-career, female-identifying and/or non-binary artists who create conceptual and socially engaged work. The Fall 2025 residency will span from August 1-October 31, 2025. The program is placed under the theme of Peace-Building.
Located in the historic village of Montegiovi, Italy, in southern Tuscany, Cultivate’s La Baldi Residency is open to artists, writers, and researchers.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - -1 months | La Baldi Residency |