Public Art Residency
BCA’s Public Art Residency program supports two artists or artist teams each year to activate our public plaza and other areas across BCA campus with interactive, temporary public art.
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. Click SEARCH on the left side, below the side navigation to access the search functions. Tag words and filtered searches help narrow results.
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BCA’s Public Art Residency program supports two artists or artist teams each year to activate our public plaza and other areas across BCA campus with interactive, temporary public art.
A retreat-style residency in the Quonset Hut Headquarters in Bakerton, WV.
At its most basic, a residency is a place for someone to live and work. What to work ON is determined by the resident.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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1 week - 1 month | Retreat Residency in Rural West Virginia |
R.A.R.O Barcelona offers an itinerant Artists In Residence program that allows artists to create in the different studios that are part of the R.A.R.O. network in Barcelona.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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3 weeks - 2 months | Home Based Program (Spring + Summer 2025) |
3 weeks - 2 months | Spring & Summer 2025 | Multi-Residency Program |
RADicle is The Croft Residency's collaborative residency with RAD Fest in Kalamazoo, MI. The residency includes a fall residency at The Croft, usually in September, and a performance opportunity the following spring as a featured artist at RAD Fest in Kalamazoo, in early March.
Ragdale is one of the largest interdisciplinary artists’ communities in the country, located 30 miles north of Chicago and accessible locally by Metra train and internationally by O’Hare airport.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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18 days - 18 days | 2026 Residency Program + Fellowships |
In 2012, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation initiated a multidisciplinary residency program on the site of Rauschenberg's former home and studio in Captiva, Florida.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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5 weeks - 5 weeks | Application by Invitation |
Members of the Oregon Coast Recorder Society have raised $103,000 to establish a recorder residency at Sitka, beginning in 2003.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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2 weeks - 6 weeks | Recorder Residency 2025 |
Replenish Residencies provides 1-2 week restorative visioning retreats to local BIPOC artists and culture bearers; the heart of New Orleans culture.
Kala's residency program serves over 150 artists annually. International, national, and local artists producing innovative work in printmaking, photography, digital media, film and video, sound, animation, media art installation, and book arts are encouraged to apply.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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2 weeks - 3 months | October 15th, 2024 Deadline: Artist-in-Residence |
2 weeks - 3 months | Application for 2025/2026 Residencies |
Rest Retreats at the Respite Roundhouse grant nature-infused rejuvenation and healing for those in need of rest. Open for booking April - July 2025. Retreatants will choose their own self-directed retreat during seasonal, available dates. $40/per weekday night.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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3 days - 30 days | Nature-Enveloped Rest Retreats |
Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to face the severity of the climate crisis and be agents of change to guide our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future.
Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies invite artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future.
The mission of Rock Street Artist Residency (RSAR) is to provide a unique space for artists to immerse themselves in their creative process, set against the inspiring backdrop of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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2 weeks - 3 weeks | Rock Street Artist Residency |
The Croft Residency is a small residency on the hill facing South located in Horton Bay Michigan. The residency is on a 20 acre parcel of land on a dead end street. The residency overlooks Lake Charlevoix. Our main studio space is a large outdoor deck for dancing.
For over fifty years the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program has provided talented artists a year-long opportunity to focus on their creative work. The Roswell Residency is not project-based nor engagement driven, providing the artist an opportunity to look inwardly.
Watershed’s annual Salad Days fundraiser draws art appreciators to campus for a summer celebration of handmade ceramic work and local food.
Established in 1939, Montalvo Arts Center is home to the third oldest residency program in the United States. In 2004, Montalvo recommitted to its support of artists and opened a new, state-of-the-art facility, relaunching as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program.
A quiet studio. A beautiful setting. Time for inspiration.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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1 week - 4 weeks | 2025 Residencies |
The Santa Fe Art Institute Thematic Residency Program supports dynamic creative practices that engage complex social issues, inspire individual transformation, and inform collective action. SFAI welcomes local, national, and international applicants of all backgrounds.
HUG DONKEYS!
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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1 week - 4 weeks | Celestial Inspiration - Annual Perseids Meteors - AUGUST 2025 |
7 days - 1 month | October in Tennessee |
2 weeks - 3 weeks | Japan 2026 & 2028: Take Your Creative Flow on the Road |
1 week - 2 weeks | HUG Donkeys! Family Friendly Summer with youth program options |
14 days - 1 month | Donkeys & Spring Flowers - May 11 - 25, 2025 |
1 week - 3 weeks | Friendsgiving with Donkeys |
1 month - 4 months | Sabbatical opportunity - Donkeys and nature ... |
1 week - 1 month | March & April in Tennessee |
The Scherbarth Residency Program provides lodging and studio space to artists and makers in the visual, performing, and literary arts to participate in the creative community at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, and the rural community of Mineral Po
Sculpture Space seeks to build appreciation for the role of contemporary art and artists in society through residencies and other programs for outstanding sculptors that foster creative exploration, community collaboration, public engagement, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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2 months - 2 months | Sculpture Space 2026 Residency |
2 months - 2 months | Sculpture Space 2026 Open Call (Nov 2025) |
The climate crisis is an urgent global concern.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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s - 6 weeks | Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem |
Artists, writers, performers, musicians, and creative professionals of all disciplines are encouraged to customize their time and conduct self-directed residencies. Projects might be the creative work of an individual or encompass the collaborative work of a group.
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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1 week - 4 weeks | Self-Directed Residencies (2026) |
Resident artists will be embedded with a local community organization during the first week of residency to learn about the mission and goals of the organization, so as to be inspired with ideas for creative projects which will engage a broader cross-section of the public in those goals and missi
Residency Length | Open Calls |
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6 weeks - 6 weeks | SFW Residency at Kent Cultural Alliance - 2025 Residency Sessions |