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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L’AiR Arts is committed to supporting intercultural artistic exchange through international arts residency programs, while promoting diversity, inclusion and international understanding through artistic and cultural heritage.
Ma’s House’s Artist-In-Residency program is open to US-based creatives of color working in any genre of visual art, creative writing, and performance arts.
MacDowell is an artist residency program located in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire. Artists-in-residence need to be comfortable with a degree of solitude and disconnection from the outside world. Studios are comfortably furnished with the artists’ needs in mind.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 10 days - 8 weeks | Spring Summer 2026 |
MADE brings together a select group of Creatives from different, but related fields, with different expertise, under the same roof where each can engage and share with one another distinct perspectives, skills, and reflections.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 3 months | MADE Creatives in Residence |
This is an ongoing programme open all year round for artists of all disciplines. The theme and focus of the programme is the emergence of the authentic self through creativity. The programme is self directed and self funded.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 3 months | Time and Space |
Manship Artists Residency is dedicated to the preservation of an environmentally and historically significant site that has been given new life as an international, interdisciplinary artists residency for the benefit of the community and visitors to Cape Ann.
Marathons engage the practices of drawing, painting, and sculpture as direct methodologies for understanding one’s experience in the world. Open to artists of all levels, courses are taught daily in-person or virtually in real time from 9am–6pm ET.
Marble House Project is a multi-disciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration & the exchange of ideas by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work side by side.
Located in the remote tropical mountain jungle, Mauser Ecohouse creates a unique tranquil, inspirational, health-conscious, and community-minded living experience for the artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 6 months | Mauser EcoHouse-Art, Permaculture, Health |
The McColl Center's internationally acclaimed Artist-in-Residence program serves as a catalyst for growth for emerging and mid-career artists.
Mentorship Residency Program
Mesa Refuge welcomes a diverse group of writers, filmmakers, audio journalists and other creatives—both emerging and established—who are defining and/or offering solutions to the pressing issues of our time.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 8 days - 8 days | Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellowship |
| 14 days - 14 days | Mesa Refuge 2026 Residencies |
Our Core Residency program -- we will celebrate our 50th anniversary in July 2023 -- is one of the longest-running in country.
The Steepletop Residency, inaugurated in 2021, is a partially-subsized one-month stay; intended for scholars and creatives with institutional or private funding, cost is $3000.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 1 month | Millay Arts: Steepletop Residency Rolling Deadline |
From mid-December through late March yearly we offer the Wintertide Rustic Retreat with reduced-fee stays (does not include food/groceries) from a long weekend to one month. Alumni of our Core and Steepletop residences may also apply to stay for free with work/trade.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 days - 30 days | Wintertide Rustic Retreat |
We provide accepted artists with space and time to create new work without the interruptions of normal life and with the bonus of healthy meals. During each residency, we host visiting artist presentations as well as resident "show & tells" -- both are dessert potlucks.
June 2-8, 2025
Purpose: The “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers aims to provide Black women writers a restful environment conducive to reflection and writing.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 10 days - 10 days | Miss Sarah Fellowship for Black Women Writers 2026 |
MMCA Residency, run by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), is now receiving applications for the International Artist Residency Program 2023.
The Moab Arts Re-Use Residency (MARR) program's mission is to challenge today's waste-making culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. The Moab area is highly impacted by the tourism industry, and, as a result, waste management.
The Monira Foundation’s Performance Residency provides space and time to Performing and Movement-based Artists in the New Jersey/New York area at the Monira Foundation Gallery.
The Monira Residency Chicago is a 12-month residency that provides established working artists with a nurturing environment in which to create their work. This year, we will award one artist a studio.
Monira Foundations Artist in Residence Program supports established artists who work in any visual arts media for 1 year residencies.
Monson Arts is an artists' residency and arts center in Monson, Maine. The goal of the residency program is to provide time and space for artists and writers to devote to their creative practices.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 4 weeks | Fall 2026 Open Call |
| 2 weeks - 4 weeks | Spring 2026 Open Call |
The Montello Foundation provides a solitary retreat where artists can experience the vastness of a desert landscape from a safe building, a “base camp” a unique space for inspiration and creation, a place that provides a shield from distractions in the solitude of the desert.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 2 weeks | Solitary Retreat in the Nevada Desert |