Residency Programs Profiles

An art residency provides the technical conditions, time, and space to develop ideas and try new approaches. It is a moment that promotes connection between artists from different backgrounds and consequently the exchange of knowledge and experiences.

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An art residency provides the technical conditions, time, and space to develop ideas and try new approaches. It is a moment that promotes connection between artists from different backgrounds and consequently the exchange of knowledge and experiences.

Back to Basics
Thematic residency program for artists, writers, designers & creative minds

Periods: 1 month
When: July / August / September 2025
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland

After consulting with the cultural and creative sectors, Banff Centre is proud to launch a new slate of Cultural Leadership Programs, designed for those ready to lead with vision, courage, and creativity.

Informed by Indigenous cultures and worldviews, we offer programs in all disciplines for emerging to established Indigenous artists.

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs provide an inspiring space and focused time for emerging and established writers to push the boundaries of their talent and realize their potential.

Mountain Culture at Banff Centre offers exceptional programs and an inspirational setting for writers and filmmakers. Our residency programs provide the time, studio space, facilities, feedback, and engagement with peers and faculty to hone your artistic development. 

Create the Unforgettable: Dedicated to creating contemporary works in dance, music, opera, theatre, and interdisciplinary art forms. Hands-on training and professional development for artists and technicians at every career stage.

Visual Arts at Banff Centre offers exceptional programs for professional artists, curators, and art critics and researchers, as well as practicum opportunities for emerging practitioners.

Dance Lab at Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) offers resources for dance-based artists to research, expand, and rebuild work at varying stages of development.

The BCA Playwright Residency supports rising playwrights by providing space to write, rehearse, and workshop a new work.

Founded in 1981, by artists for artists, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs.

Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress.

Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress.

The Bethany Arts Community Emerging Artist Fellowship is designed to offer a creative home to emerging artists, ages 21+, as they transition and deepen their professional careers and artistic practice.

Zaccho Dance Theatre’s Black Futures Artist in Residence Program is open to diverse voices, emerging and established, called to express the Black experience through an arts practice that inspires dialogue and builds community.

The mission of the Creative Residency program at Bloedel Reserve is to foster creative thinking that is inspired by nature and that explores the connection between humans and the environment.

BOOM Concepts is a creative hub dedicated to the advancement of Black, Brown, Queer and Femme artists. BOOM Concepts is located in Pittsburgh and since 2014 has curated 50 exhibitions on-site, paid out over $100k in artists fees and produced 200+ events across the country.

Considered Boston’s most comprehensive dance-focused residency, the Boston Dancemakers Residency is designed to support new work from conception to performance.

The City of Richmond’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Services invites professional artists in all disciplines (including writers, composers, visual artists, musicians, theatre artists, video, multi-disciplinary and performance artists) to submit proposals for an 11-month live-in residency to begin i

The focus of Bryn Du’s Artist in Residence program is to enhance local awareness and engagement in the arts by introducing new and varied artists to the Granville community throughout the calendar year.

The Buinho Residency program is directed at creatives and researchers from different backgrounds.

Byrdcliffe’s Artists-in-Residence (AiR) program offers artists in all disciplines uninterrupted time to live and work within the serene natural setting and creative community of Woodstock’s historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, one of the earliest utopian and continuously operating arts colonies in Am

Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts seeks applications for its first ever call for thematic residencies.