The Muncie Arts and Culture Council is the designated Arts Partner for the City of Muncie. As Arts Partner, we assist with municipal initiatives where art integration can benefit Economic Development and Quality of Place. As an arts alliance, we build community among artists and arts organizations and serve as a resource for professional growth and opportunity.

Based in Denver, CO, PlatteForum’s Artist Residency is a competitive, international program that provides artists the time, studio space and support to create new work and dive into social justice topics. Resident artists lead workshops with PlatteForum’s ArtLab high school interns culminating in exhibitions and/or performances in our gallery. PlatteForum supports artists who reflect the community of interns we serve, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and artists living with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

Since 1973, Millay Arts has welcomed over 3000 exceptional multidisciplinary poets, writers, composers, visual and performance artists to Steepletop, the estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay in the Hudson Valley. Offering the gift of time and space, our Core Residency (applicants selected by blind jury) provides groceries, chef-prepared communal suppers, private bedrooms and studios as well as shared living spaces.  Our 11-acre campus features serene meadows and wooded trails.

The McColl Center Artist-in-Residence program serves as a catalyst for growth for emerging and mid-career artists. There are three residency terms per year—fall, winter/spring, and summer (parent/educator), with for four artists per term. Artists-in-residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in our historic building in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend.

The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) at Montalvo Arts Center is a creative incubator and cultural producer dedicated to investing in artists and their work. We support visual artists, composers, writers, performers, scholars, and others from around the world to undertake critical investigations of contemporary issues, and to create and present new and experimental works.

I-Park hosts intimate, multidisciplinary, fully funded residencies to artists from around the world. Between 6 and 8 artists reside onsite for 4-week “sessions.” To foster a congenial social setting, all artists arrive and depart at the same time. Residents are provided with a private bedroom in a renovated 1840s farmhouse, a private studio and chef-prepared dinners five nights a week. Shared amenities: communal kitchen, Common Area for gatherings, a modest library and 25 art/nature trails.

Launched in 2009 in beautiful Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, Green Box is a year-round incubator of multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts. Centered on four pillars that make up the entirety of our programming in, by, and for the community, Green Box provides residents and visitors from Colorado and around the world the following: the annual summer Green Box Arts Festival, year-round Artist in Residency & Arts Education programming, and Art Installations available to view daily.

Golden Apple Art Residency is situated in a very quiet and secluded location, approximately an hour north of Acadia National Park along the rocky coast of DownEast Maine. The studios, residents' cottages, the three-story art building and the main house are all located less than two hundred feet from shore. It is in this remote, naturally rugged and picturesque environment that our artists and writers find the support and inspiration to create.

Golden Apple offers three sessions, each two weeks

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers, through its acclaimed 7-month residency program granting fellowships to 20 emerging writers and artists, and to restoring the year-round vitality of the historic art community of Provincetown.

Crosstown Arts is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts center whose mission is to further cultivate the creative community in Memphis by providing resources and opportunities to inspire and support diverse and far-reaching audiences. Founded in 2010, CA led the redevelopment of Crosstown Concourse (a former Sears building) and moved into the building in 2017. CA now programs and operates gallery space, a music venue, a 419-seat black-box theater, a residency program, a maker space, and a bar.