The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) offers residency opportunities to visual artists from the U.S. and abroad to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Our studios, museum and housing are located within the historic downtown and working waterfront of Eastport, Maine and overlook the U.S./Canada boundary. TIMA’s downtown StudioWorks building contains private studios, common work areas, and a ground floor printmaking and letterpress studio. 

The StudioWorks program mission, supported by two national awards from ARTPLACE and many additional funders, is to place the arts in the center of the community, utilizing the arts and artists to foster, engage, and create a vital and vibrant downtown. A StudioWorks residency provides an artist with a unique experience to play an active role in our creative community and region through socially engaged projects, educational outreach or public programming. So far, 119 artists from 28 different states and nine foreign countries have participated in the program. 

There is no fee to apply if applications are submitted from Dec 1-15, 2024; a $20 fee to apply from Dec 16 -31; and a $30 fee to apply from Jan 1-15. The final deadline is January 15, 2025 at midnight (ET).

´ace is an acronym that stands for "arte contemporáneo en expansión", which is Spanish for "expanding contemporary art". Its main mission is to promote contemporary artistic practices and the exploration of their multiple interfaces through residency programs, which are aimed at artists, curators and researchers, and promote collaborative work, exchange, debate and experimentation.

Exploration Residencies provide accompaniment, research resources and local contacts for carrying out projects. All of our residents-in-Exploration Residency receive tutoring and mentoring, accompaniment and work critiques from the ´ace team and specialized professionals, while they enrich themselves by being in contact with their colleagues in residency. This program is aimed at professional and emerging artists from any discipline who want to work on visual, sound or performance art research, or who wish to have a space for reflection to create, investigate or write.

Exploration Residencies may include an open studio format presentation or other possibilities opening up their process for the local public.

The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects of environmental degradation. These injuries – the historical to the present – affect our bodies, families, communities, and cultures, as well as the land and its other creatures.  We encourage artists to guide our collective response as the caretakers and caregivers to our universe while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional and timely projects seeking transformation for our species and planet.

This residency program is designed for fine artists working across discipline, medium and platform. Through online platforms, it aims to deliver a robust, global residency experience. Working with SVA's distinguished faculty, participants will develop their practice without the limitations of location or the necessity for travel. The goal of The Artist Residency Project is to create an inclusive online space where artists can thrive, nurture their practice and build an active, engaged community.
Faculty will conduct remote studio visits and discuss each participant's work on an individual basis, as well as facilitate group critiques and reading groups. Alongside these visits, daily activities and ways to connect will keep participants engaged with their community of artists, and a cohort of professional mentors spanning the fields of art, design and contemporary practice. Special lectures by guest artists, critics and gallery directors will provide further insight into the realities of the working artist in the present moment. 

Faculty and lecturers have included Andrea Champlin, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Gregory Coates, Tobi Kahn, Alois Kronschlaeger, Judy Mannarino, Amy Myers, Iviva Olenick, Danica Phelps, William Powhida, Accra Shepp, Carlos Rosales-Silva and Allison Hewitt Ward.

The residency concludes with a curated online group exhibition.

NOTE: A portfolio is required for review and acceptance to this program. All students with an active registration in this course will be given free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud. This residency is fully online and offered through a combination of synchronous as well as asynchronous studio visits, critiques, lectures, discussions and activities. Synchronous sessions will be announced and scheduled in consideration of different time zones.

For further information or questions regarding SVA's Artist Residency Programs, email residency@sva.edu.

Nekubi Art Residency is a lively artist led community space 
located at the historic city of Kavala by the North Aegean Coast in Greece. International Artists are invited to participate through our annual open calls and become part of the experience.  

Our 2025 WORLDWIDE OPEN CALL "Free Improvisation in the Arts" aims to challenge artists with the ethics of free spontaneous expression. In times when everything in our lives seems planned and organized, artists are called to deeper explore the random, the abstract, the allegoric. 

Free improvisation by nature disregards rules. The only rule is that there are no rules.  Participants ought to  strive to disregard their allegiances to prescribed idioms and stylistic prescriptions.  However, despite this focus on spontaneity, most improvisation theorists agree that improvisation is not ad hoc activity, rather it involves skill, training, limitations and forethought. 

The magic of free improvisation lies in its celebration of liberty, the collective abolition of tradition and judgment.  The forming of a momentary piece or performance. 

"Free Improvisation in the Arts" is open to all disciplines (visual arts, sound art, performance, poetry, theatre, dance, painting, collage, photography). Our desire is to inspire our artists in residence to embrace freedom, think out of the box, connect with their environment, be present to the moment, create unique art pieces or performances and spark creative dialogues with the community.

As an artist community we love art statements in subjects of a social, environmental, political context. Due to the nature of this open call though, the theme of choice is totally open to the artists. 

Our programs give artists the chance to enjoy their holidays in a beautiful area that combines sea, mountains, rural and urban life while they can practice their art form. 

Here at nekubi art residency, being artists ourselves, we do our best for artists to feel like home, work daily in a calm environment and get in touch with the uprising local community of artists, by hosting a curated event at the end of their program, exhibiting / showcasing their works in our dedicated exhibition / performance space. The curated event is being promoted to our local community and is accompanied by dj sets, music performances and open bar for our community to enjoy and interact! 

The residency program offers:

• shared working studio space 
• accommodation
• exhibition space
• curated event at the end of the program (exhibition of works, open bar, DJ's, promotion to our community)

/// The shared working space is located in the city centre, just 3 mins walk from the closest beach and consists of 4 levels (100 m2 in total):

Level -1: WC area

Level 0: Cafe Bar / Art Store Library

Level 1: Workshop / Exhibition / Performance Space 

Level 2: Lounge / Web Radio

"All residency artists will have their own set of keys and everyday access to the shared space for their working and interacting needs (except Monday evenings that Robotics classes are hosted in the space). 

/// Our freshly renovated apartments offer a calm, relaxing environment for artists and partners. 

They are located:

5-7 mins walking distance from the campus

5-7 mins walking distance from the closest beach

10 mins walking distance from the city centre

• Residency Apartment A (video link): https://www.instagram.com/p/C-H8nd1MJ0x/
• Residency Apartment B (video link): https://www.instagram.com/p/C-IJsEIMmvJ/

List og Land presents “Write In Iceland” a multi-discipline writing intensive from May 4 to May 11 with bestselling, award-winning author and writing instructor, Leslie Schwartz. 

Arrive Sunday May 4—Depart Saturday May 10, 2025

This is a multi-genre workshop for writers working in the disciplines of memoir/personal essay and fiction.

There will be four days of class instruction (May 5-May 8) which will include critical feedback on writing submissions sent ahead of the workshop to be discussed at your one-on-one private conference with the instructor. Daily classes will include craft of writing lectures and discussions and in-class writing. Sessions are two times a day, from 10 am to Noon and 1pm to 3 pm (13:00-15:00).

List og Land at Laugaból Farm in Iceland’s Westfjords region is distinct for extraordinary solitude and beauty.  Residents can draw inspiration from the incredible Icelandic natural features surrounding the residency: ancient volcanos, waterfalls, rivers, mountains, valleys and the sea.  It is possible to hike for hours without leaving the property.  Stone ruins can be found scattered across the 4000+ acres of our grounds.  It is not uncommon for residents to be visited by whales, seals, arctic foxes, huldufólk, and swans.  

A geothermal hot tub and wood-burning sauna are also available for the writers.

The day before your flight home, there will be an optional sightseeing tour to Reykjarfjörður hot pool and the A House in Fossfjorður and more. This tour is included in the total price. For details of the sightseeing area please click here: https://www.westfjords.is/en/place/reykjafjordur-in-arnarfjordur.

Weir Farm’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program is envisioned to be an outstanding National Park Service residency program that reflects the values and character of Weir Farm National Historical Park (NHP) by continuing the creative conversations started by the Weir Family through the work of contemporary artists. Weir Farm’s AIR Program fosters contemporary artistic expression on site and prioritizes experimental and thought-provoking approaches to examining and interpreting our world through the medium of contemporary visual art practice. The AIR Program keeps Weir’s experimental tendencies alive allowing the Park to share new ideas broadly with ever more diverse artists, communities, and visitors.

Visual artists apply for residencies in all media and diverse artistic points of view from traditional to experimental. Artists are chosen through an annual call for applicants followed by a competitive jury process. The Weir Farm AIR Program hosts 6 established or emerging visual artists per year to spend one month living and working at the Park (May-October). Housing and studio space are provided. 

Weir Farm NHP places a high value on diversity of experience and cultural perspectives and encourages applications from all interested eligible candidates. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) are fundamental principles that guide the Park and allow us to successfully achieve our mission. This program seeks to actively engage the many communities, identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, cultures, and beliefs of the American people, with particular emphasis on historically excluded communities.

Since 2001, KHN has hosted more than 50 working artists each year. Each has found quietness in which to create along with opportunities to interact with fellow residents in the rural hometown of Nebraska City, Nebraska. KHN's facilities house up to five residents at a time, generally in the mix of two visual artists, two writers, and one composer. Residency awards are 2 to 8 weeks in length. Each awardee receives a $175 per week stipend, a private bedroom/bath and individual studio/study, while sharing a kitchen and living space with one other resident (composers are housed in their own efficiency apartment located under the composition studio).

Nestled along the Missouri River, Nebraska City is Nebraska's oldest incorporated city. The historic town has tree-lined brick streets, architecturally-interesting homes and buildings, and the most museums per capita of any city in the midwest. Nebraska City thrives with businesses, attractions, and festivals held throughout the year including Arbor Day and Applejack weekend celebrations. Midwestern friendliness abounds. The city is walkable and easy to navigate via bicycle, and is an hour's drive from Omaha and Lincoln, the two largest cities in Nebraska.

List og Land at Laugaból Farm in Iceland’s Westfjords region is distinct for extraordinary solitude and beauty.  Residents can draw inspiration from the incredible Icelandic natural features surrounding  the residency: ancient volcanos, waterfalls, rivers, mountains, valleys and the sea.  It is possible to hike for hours without leaving the property.  Stone ruins can be found scattered across the 4000+ acres of our grounds.  It is not uncommon for residents to be visited by whales, seals, arctic foxes, huldufólk, and swans.  List og Land is an international residency open to all. We believe that artists and writers thrive at the intersection of nature and community. We consider connections with nature and each to be the raw and sacred material for creative work.