Hyde Park Art Center is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. We offer a comprehensive set of programs that serve the creative and resource needs of artists and our communities. Our programs include exhibitions, public programs, studio art classes, and an international and local residency program for visual artists and curators.

Discover and develop your personal artistic voice! The IRIS ART CENTRE, located in the countryside of Greece, is specialized in art education and art coaching for artists, students and creatives of all ages and abilities. In the workshops and residencies, and in the online art coaching you get all the guidance and encouragement you need to work discover and develop your personal visual language. Workshops and residencies are full board so you can work concentrated for long stretches of time.

Indigo Arts Alliance. A place where freedom of expression and personal transformation through creativity is encouraged. Indigo Arts Alliance embodies a Black-led, multiracial approach to the rich intersections of citizenship, community-building, and creativity. More than ever, our world needs people who can help us imagine more compassionate, generous, and welcoming human societies. Indigo does that work. It is a great gift to the Portland community, to the region, and to our nation!

Established in 1934, The Hambidge Center is a sanctuary unlike any other dedicated to nurturing
creativity in all walks of life. On the historic 600-acre campus in the North Georgia Mountains, Hambidge
offers a national multidisciplinary residency program, innovative workshops, along with community
programs and a gallery. As the oldest residency program in the South, Hambidge has a long tradition of
excellence hosting artists, writers, dancers, musicians, chefs and scientists exploring their creative voices
while unplugging from everyday distractions. 

With the addition of the Antinori Village in 2023, Hambidge has expanded its programming to include workshops, curated projects, and public events, furthering its mission to nurture creativity. Inspiring workshops are modeled after the residency program welcoming eight individuals at a time to ensure deeper connection and crafted from the number of people that fit around the dinner table. The Cross-Pollination Art Lab in Atlanta also provides studio
space and dynamic arts programming. Through all its programs, Hambidge boldly promotes the creative
process and incubation of ideas in the widest diversity of people while building strong, supportive bonds
of community through open, respectful dialogue and shared experiences.

Green Olive Arts’ mission is to resource creative individuals of both emerging and established artistic talent from around the world in seasons of inspiration, production, collaboration and exchange here in the rich context of Moroccan culture. We invite artists from a wide range of disciplines and mediums to apply for residencies of 3 or 6 weeks in length during our open seasons. 

Fountainhead elevates the voices, visibility and value of artists in our society and makes their work accessible in a welcoming and inclusive environment. Offering a year-round residency program, flexible and affordable artists' studios and the annual countywide open studios event Artists Open, Fountainhead empowers artists to build thriving careers while nurturing a community that supports them and their work.

 The four-acre Villa Barr property, previously owned by internationally recognized artist David Barr and dancer Beth Dwaihy Barr, includes a home, studio and multiple sculpture installations in a park setting. Novi, Michigan (population 66,000) was founded as a township in 1832. Novi is equidistant (25 miles) from the centers of Detroit and Ann Arbor. The City’s public art program is designed to enrich the visual environment of the City of Novi by placing works of art that inspire the community.

Hug Donkeys! Let your creativity flow like the Buffalo (river).

Literally grounded in the philosophy that spending time in nature increases your creative energy, problem-solving, focus from distractions, and general disconnect from modern society aids in general well-being. Founded by an artist/designer who spent more than 2 decades as professor in the academic grind, seeking a place of respite for herself and others on their creative journeys.

In this lovely landscape of the rural rolling foothills of Appalachia of middle Tennessee just under 2 hours drive southwest of Nashville, you'll experience a variety of colors, textures, shapes, and sounds that may inspire as well as the array of animals for 'pet therapy' including 15 mostly mini donkeys, chickens, peacocks, cats, and 2 farm dogs.

Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) in partnership with the Everglades National Park, empowers artists to think creatively and critically about their relationship to the environment with a mission of revealing new paths forward.

Since 2001, AIRIE has welcomed over 190 artists, writers, curators, choreographers, musicians and other creatives to its residency program, permeating the national and international art landscape with unique interpretations and stories of the Everglades.

Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts is a nonprofit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago metropolitan area, including women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists. By providing unrestricted awards, project funding, residencies, professional development, and promotion, 3Arts helps artists take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers over time.