Artist residencies provide artists, scholars, educators, and other creative professionals with time, space and resources to work, individually or collectively, on the research and development of their practice.
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For artists, the residency experience begins with research. By selecting tag words or phrases and filtering searches based on location, discipline, context, and more, artists will better understand differences in programs and determine which residencies might be a good fit. After creating a filtered search, users can save the list of results. This saved list then becomes a resource for artists throughout the research and inquiry process. Artists can learn more about the residency experience here.
Residency staff and arts administrators may use the directory to find and connect with similar programs based on geography, typology or context. The directory is also a resource for learning about the policies, strategies, and program design of other organizations. Like artists, residency staff and arts administrators can narrow their searches using tags and filters and save the results as a reference list.
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> Search Ongoing Open Call Deadlines to access all ongoing deadlines. These open calls do not have a deadline and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Specifically, the Artists-in-Residence program draws a diverse group of emerging artists who have earned at minimum a BFA. Artists-in-Residence are responsible for teaching classes in varied disciplines to our diverse student community.
Our Artist-in-Residence Program offers professional artists the opportunity to develop their practice within an inclusive studio environment while collaborating alongside adults with disabilities. Artists of Opportunity is the art programming of Opportunity Resources Inc.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 day - 8 weeks | 1day- 8week Residencies in August 2026- June 2027 |
The Artist’s Book Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 6 weeks - 8 weeks | Women's Studio Workshop: Artist's Book Residency Grant |
The Arts Center at Governors Island is home to year-round artist residency programs for artists working in any discipline.
This week-long residency provides space for 6 artist educators to center themselves and their work as artists first and get the well-deserved rest and rejuvenation they need.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| days - 7 days | 2026 Arts Educators Residency |
ACC is an international arts and culture organization committed to bringing together and fostering exchange among different regions and disciplines.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 months - 5 months | ACC CREATORS 2026 Residency Open Call |
ASLD’s Visiting Artist Series (VAS) brings notable artists to Denver from across the world.
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to hosting visual artists and curators from all parts of the world to live and create in Athens, Greece, and the Bronx, New York —thereby facilitating a diverse influx of expression, production, and learning.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| s | ARCAthens |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Art Residency |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Drawing Residency 2026 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Painting Residency 2026 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Artist Book Residency - Fall and Winter 2026/7 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Artist Book Residency - Spring/Summer 2027 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Ceramics Residency - Winter/Spring 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Ceramics Residency Summer/Fall 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Tiles Residency 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Ceramics Furniture Making Residency |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Ceramics Figure Sculpting Residency |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Slab Building Residency |
| 3 weeks - 4 months | Aviário Studio Ceramics: Coil Building Residency 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Ceramics: Glaze Developing Residency 2027 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Large Format Printmaking Residency - Summer and Fall 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Large Format Printmaking Residency - Winter and Spring 2027 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Multidisciplinary Art Residency - Winter and Spring 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Multidisciplinary Art Residency - Summer and Fall 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Multidisciplinary Art Residency - Spring and Summer 2027 |
PHOTOGRAPHY RESIDENCY
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Cyanotype Residency |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Photography Residency 2027 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Printmaking Residency - Winter/Spring 2026-27 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Printmaking Residency - Summer/Fall 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 4 months | Aviário Studio Intaglio Printmaking Residency 2026 |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Screen Printing Residency |
| 2 weeks - 6 months | Aviário Studio Relief Printmaking Residency 2027 |
As an emerging community-based organization, Azule has developed a retreat and residency program for craftspeople, writers, architects, builders, researchers, and artists of all types.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 days - 2 months | Open Call: Artist Residency in Appalachia |
Back to Basics
Thematic residency program for artists, writers, designers & creative minds
Periods: 1 month
When: July / August / September 2026
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 1 month - 1 month | Back to Basics - Thematic Residency Program in Finland, Summer 2026 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 6 days - 6 days | Cultural Leadership: Reflecting Forward with Wise Practices - November 2026 |
| 6 days - 6 days | From Data to Relational Direction: Evaluative Practices for Cultural Leaders |
| 6 days - 6 days | Reimagining Cultural Policy: Leading Change Across Governance Systems |
| 6 days - 6 days | Cultural Leadership: People and Governance |
| 6 days - 6 days | Truth and Reconciliation in the Arts |
Informed by Indigenous cultures and worldviews, we offer programs in all disciplines for emerging to established Indigenous artists.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks - 3 weeks | Mâwacihitowinihk Nikamowak: Indigenous Music Residency |
| 4 weeks - 4 weeks | Write Over Here: Indigenous Futurism Residency 2027 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 12 days - 12 days | Early Career Writers of Poetry 2026 |
| 19 days - 19 days | Deep Winter Writers 2027 |
| 2 weeks - 2 weeks | Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency 2027 |
| 12 days - 12 days | Literary Journalism: Memoir 2026 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 4 days - 4 weeks | Moonlighter Film Camp - From Concept to Completion |
| 4 days - 4 days | Moonlighter Film Camp - Post Production |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 5 days - 6 months | Banff Musicians In Residence 2027 |
| 5 days - 6 months | Musical Theatre Dancers Intensive 2027 |
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.
| Residency Length | Open Calls |
|---|---|
| 3 weeks - 3 weeks | Banff International Curatorial Institute: Curating While Black |
| 5 days - 6 months | Visual Arts Thematic - On Other Archives |
| 5 weeks - 5 weeks | Visual Arts Thematic - Future Figurations Residency |
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a 3-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers in the beautif
Providing Time, Space and Inspiration is the founding principle of Burren College of Art.