The Respite invites cultural residencies for creative artists and healing practitioners, prioritizing queer, trans, nonbinary and/or black, indigenous, cultural workers of color working, resting or scheming for our collective liberation.   There is not set price to stay in the Respite Roundhouse, nor specific artist program for funding support.   

The Roundhouse and land will be open for Spring residencies through Summer and Fall 2025  Respite in the Round is a custom round treehouse turned land-based retreat offering individuals and small groups a place for rest, connection, creative making, grounding and vision-setting.  

Situated within a rare alluvial forest on a tributary of the Upper Tar River in the Piedmont of North Carolina, The Respite is a small business that operates according to solidarity scale and is in a shared, rematriating relationship with the Jeffries soil sisters who are also farm partner member-owners of Handèwa Farms.  Together, the Respite and the Jeffries soil sisters co-habitate - along with the visitors they welcome to the land - on 23 acres of Rare Occaneechi Saponi Alluvial (R.O.S.A.) land. 

 We welcome nature-based immersion for artists, healers, cultural organizers and their families taking time for restful or creative resistance.  

Pick-up and Drop off from the RDU airport is available for an additional fee, as is  pre-shopping and stocking house with perishables and food items. 

Residency dates: October 6 - November 3, 2025

International group residencies offer up to ten artists the opportunity to live and work at the Château de La Napoule complex. These residencies focus on individual artistic expression and exploration. At the core is a belief in the value of the shared experience of personal, professional, and artistic discovery that takes place within a supportive environment of peers. Residencies are open to all artistic genres.

Residents are housed in single rooms in the recently renovated Villa Marguerite, located across a small street from the Château, or in the Château itself. Rooms are equipped with private baths and each has sea or garden views. Wifi is available in the Villa and Château. Linen service is provided weekly. There is a washing machine, dryer, and clothesline at the Villa for residents’ use.

LNAF provides breakfast and dinner on weekdays. Meals are often held in the Château’s gothic dining room, providing the opportunity for exchange and community. For lunches and weekend meals, residents have full access to the kitchen in the Villa Marguerite to store and prepare their own food. The village of La Napoule also offers numerous restaurants and cafés just a few blocks from the Villa and Château.

LNAF provides each resident with a stipend, plus a studio space in which to work. Studios are located throughout the Château property, some inside the castle and some in towers on its grounds. Artists are asked to address any specific requirements for studio space in their applications.

Calling all artists with the desire for quiet time in a natural setting to pursue creative work this summer. 

When we feel connected to the self, we are more alive and spontaneous to the moment and this aliveness arouses imagination and creativity. 

As a spacious, rural and peaceful haven, Maison Les Buis offers an environment that is conducive to making such a connection - an artist’s retreat unbounded by time and sheltered from the hurried energy of the world. 

The aim of this residency is to focus on authenticity and individuality by removing the influence of the crowd and taking time to ‘look’ within and find your own thread, think afresh, set intention without hesitation or doubt, and translate it into action that is true to your unique personality.

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. Elf's primary mediums are book arts, drawing, jewelry, music, painting, paper arts, photography, printmaking, textiles, weaving, and writing. 

Anytime is the perfect time to write, make art or music.

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.

Individual cottages are complete with WiFi, window AC, good cell phone reception, kitchen, bathroom, workspace, and a covered porch with magnificent mountain, canyon and Temecula Valley views. One cottage includes a Steinway baby grand piano and another has a Kimball baby grand. 

The Community Arts Center provides a library with Dorland works and a large writing desk with a typewriter, a meeting room, and a studio room with small printing press for visual artists.  

The extensive grounds feature a reflecting pond, a small lake with a rowboat, and hiking trails that wind through the property.

Dorland invites residency requests from visual, literary (or other writing) and composing or performing artists. Residency stays may be as short as one week or as long as 6 weeks, based on requests and availability. See  Cottage Availability.

This is a live/work residency that is embedded in a small (9-room) hospitality business called Travelers New Orleans. 

New Orleans, like most cities, has become increasingly unaffordable for artists and others who seek to live creatively. At Travelers New Orleans, artists are provided housing on the third (top) level of a light-filled three-bedroom, two-bath apartment in the Lower Garden District neighborhood. A fourth room is available for office/limited studio space. Artists help run the hospitality business by committing to work about 15 (paid) hours per week, and the hospitality business, in turn, funds the residency. Hours may vary depending on season, but 15 is a solid average. 

Artists are encouraged to create onsite (there are some space limitations) and there are opportunities to showcase work in the lobby gallery, which looks on out world-famous Magazine Street. The goal of this residency is to provide an affordable, creative, supportive environment for artists at any stage of their careers.