Mother’s Milk is a 2-6 week interdisciplinary residency, designed to support visual artists, sound artists, or creative writers, pursuing innovative work in their field. The goal is to provide individuals or collaborative teams with the time and space to pursue their creative projects alongside other residents whose different perspectives and backgrounds offer inspiration and interaction. Work that is more experimental in nature without regard to commercial viability is of special interest.

The Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative | AEFI, established in 2007 as a project of the Institute's Philanthropy and Social Innovation Program | PSI, is a collegial learning community that aims to optimize the AEF charitable impact of private foundations created and endowed by visual artists to use their artworks and rights charitably in art stewardship and cultural philanthropy activities. AEFI fulfills this mission by collaborating with AEF leaders to identify and promulgate effective professional practices through research, publications, professional education, and leadership convenings.  www.aspeninstitute.org/aefi

The Mildred's Lane Project was originally formed around an old agrarian landscape renovated by artists J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion deep in rural northeastern Pennsylvania bordering Narrowsburg, New York, beginning in 1997.

Mildred’s Lane Inc. is an experimental cultural organization and residency program where interdisciplinary visionaries collaborate on new forms of critical social engagement at the intersections of art, ecology, science, and history. Mildred’s Lane has co-evolved as an energetic, artist-driven, grassroots project serving hundreds of artists and creative thinkers through programs, residencies, workshops, and events.

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.

Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. is led by Indigenous artist Jeremy Dennis. The project began in June 2020 and serves as a communal art space based on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York. The family house, built in the 1960s, features a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC),  art studio, library, along with hosting an array of art and history-based programs for tribe members and the broader local community. A not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exe

List og Land ehf is a dream project of Founder Leslie Schwartz and Co-Founder Greg Littlewood, that found its ultimate home in 2021, in  Iceland’s Westfjords region, at Laugaból Farm, a space of extraordinary solitude and beauty.  

The Kent Cultural Alliance (KCA), founded in 1975, is the designated regional arts council for Kent County, Maryland.  Kent County is situated on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, on the unceded lands of the Tockwogh and Ozini peoples.  Kent is Maryland's smallest and most rural county.  In 2018, KCA embarked on a five year  endeavor to purchase and renovate the historic Mansfield/Eliasson House (c. 1798) in the heart of downtown Chestertown, to create a new cultural home and a brand new visiting artist residency program.   As an arts council, KCA funds artists and arts organizations in Kent County, and creates and supports arts and culture programming across the county and in the public schools.

The SFW Residency at the Kent Cultural Alliance launched in Spring 2024 and has run two full residency sessions with seven visiting artists.  The residency is a community engaged, theme based program that connects artists with local businesses and nonprofits to amplify their missions through the arts.  The residency sessions are six weeks long and arists live and work in the newly renovated building, The Vincent and Leslie Prince Raimond Cultural Center.    

In the belief that art is vital to the human spirit, the Eureka Springs School of the Arts (ESSA) commits itself to cultivating, promoting, and encouraging artistic expression by providing art and fine craft education opportunities for students of all levels in a unique environment of beauty and creativity.

ESSA is located in the majestic Ozark mountains of Northwest Arkansas, nestled on a 50-acre wooded campus providing inspiration and serenity for all who visit.