The Nicholson Project is a nonprofit artist residency program coupled with a neighborhood garden that works to support artists and serve as a creative and innovative cultural hub. Since opening, we have paid over $300,000 directly to artists plus significant additional funding to support artist-created projects. 

Our mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Our vision is to serve as a community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC.

The Hermitage is a multi-disciplinary artist retreat dedicated to championing bold and impactful new work, supporting the creative process, elevating the artist experience, and enriching the lives of audiences and arts appreciators around the world. An incubator for diverse and original works across all artistic mediums, the Hermitage aims to inspire creative minds to achieve their greatest potential.

The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) program by Collar Works is designed to provide a diverse group of emerging and established artists an immersive, inclusive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue on a bucolic 77-acre farm in Washington County, New York. The summer residency is offered for 5 weeks, with 2 and 4-week residencies for individual artists and 1-week residencies for families.

Yaddo is a nonprofit retreat for artists in Saratoga Springs, New York. Our mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.

We offer residencies to professional creative artists working in the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists apply individually or as members of collaborative team

Founded by American artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), the Camargo Foundation fosters creativity, research, and experimentation through its international residency program for artists, scholars, and thinkers. Since 1971 Camargo has hosted nearly 1,500 individuals working in the arts and humanities from all over the world. Located in Cassis, France, on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, the Foundation offers time and space in a contemplative and supportive environment.

The Taipei Culture Foundation became responsible for overseeing the operations of Taipei Artist Village in 2004 and took over supervision for Treasure Hill Artist Village in 2010. The two sites focus on cultivating talents and international exchange as their mission, endeavoring to provide artists in Taiwan and abroad a base for innovation and experimentation, encouraging art exchanges between Taiwan and the world while expanding the horizon of culture. 

Surel’s Place honors the legacy of artist Surel Mitchell by offering her home and studio to artists of promise, and of renown, for month-long residencies and professionally supported art events. In this inspiring live/work space artists of all disciplines are given time and freedom to reflect, create, and share their work with Idahoans of all ages and backgrounds.

Tides Institute & Museum of Art is located on Passamaquoddy homelands along the Atlantic coast at the US/Canada border. This boundary location shapes its perspective on the region and the broader world: through its initiatives and programs to foster new innovative and cross-sector works, wide ranging collections, education and preservation efforts, and through partnerships and endeavors to strengthen the region’s economic prosperity, vitality and wider connections.

Stelo illuminates the power of art to invite conversation and build community. We are dedicated to responsive models of support via partnerships, collaboration, and exchange.

The STAR Collaboration (Students, Teachers, Artists-in-Residence) at Eagle Hill School advances artistic approaches to education by connecting diverse learners to accomplished artists who live, learn, and create new work on campus. The STAR Collaboration invites artists of all disciplines to come away for an extended period of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate learning through novel, interdisciplinary approaches.