Overlooking Cook Inlet and the heart-stopping grandeur of the Aleutian Mountain Range, Storyknife Writers Retreat, a literary nonprofit located in Homer, Alaska, hosts residencies for women from Alaska, across the United States, and internationally. Our mission is to give women writers the time and space to explore their craft without distraction. Storyknife provides women with a community to support their efforts, lifting their voices.

Originally a seasonal destination for artists and educators, PenArt has evolved into a national arts hub; working with a growing audience through innovative workshops led by visiting faculty, supporting artists of all career stages through the Artists-in-Residence Program, sharing the work of emerging and established artists through curated exhibitions in the Guenzel Gallery, and engaging the local community through meaningful public programs year-round.

Open AIR is a place-based Artist-in-Residence program that connects artists from all disciplines and origins, with culturally, historically, and ecologically significant locations through collaborative partnerships in Montana.

With innovative opportunities available in places such as remote wilderness areas to historically significant sites closer to town, artists have the opportunity to draw inspiration from a regional community dedicated to preserving place, environment, and the arts.
 

Established in 2019 in the Hudson Valley in Livingston, NY, Interlude Artist Residency is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting a flourishing practice for visual artists who are actively parenting. Interlude provides residency stays and professional development tailored to the unique needs of these artists.

In Cahoots Residency is a place of collaboration and creative energy, a rare opportunity for uninterrupted work time as well as dialog with other artists. The residency provides housing and studio space to emerging and professional artists working in a variety of mediums. Our pastoral location and light-filled studios for book art, letterpress, writing, and printmaking inspire artists to make new discoveries and leave with a renewed passion for their work. The residency hosts from three to five artists at a time for sessions ranging from one to three weeks long. Residents are provided private individual guest houses (with kitchens and full bathrooms) and 24-hour access to the spacious shared studios or the individual writing studio. With a focus on community and inclusion, we welcome adult artists of all ethnicities, religions, ages, physical abilities, genders, sexual orientations, financial statuses, and educational backgrounds.

Nestled between the horizon line of Lake Superior and the wilderness of boreal forests.

The Grand Marais Art Colony fosters the exploratory growth and experimental power of contemporary artists.

With the Boundary Waters to the north; Lake Superior to the south. We explore visual arts in that liminal space between. We exist to advance the aesthetic inquiries and experimentations of artists. We are an artist-centered space offering residencies, studio sessions, and exhibitions. We are a welcoming community that supports risk-taking and self-discovery; we are an immersive gathering place where you can germinate and exchange ideas, inspirations and techniques.

TOSS is an arts advocacy studio in Morganton, NC. Our mission is to foster personal and institutional transformation through arts and community organizing for rural, working class families. TOSS is an initiative of The Industrial Commons.

The artist residency program of The Truro Center for the Arts at Edgewood Farm is a program that began in 2017, developed to encourage the development of creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging and established artists. The Artist Residency offers quiet and space in a beautiful setting with the ocean and the bay not more than a mile a way. Residents are for writers and visual artists with facilities in painting printmaking, sculpture and environmental installation.

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. Azule’s mission is to provide an environment where artists and community members meet, work, and learn together through the arts. Located in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, we invite residents to join us to enjoy a retreat from everyday life where there is time and space to relax, dream, and create.

Arteles Creative Center in Finland is one of the largest and most international residency centers in Scandinavia. 

Arteles runs different thematic residency programs, welcoming over 140 selected artists per year.
Our residency programs bring together creative minds & professionals from all over the world, from all fields of creativity.