Zero Foot Hills (ZFH) is a residence on a rural property for artists to live, rest, think, and create, with a focus on natural spaces and materials.

our mission:

To foster artistic creation and practice as integral and complementary aspects of a life in balance with nature.

our vision:

To provide space and time for guests to live, rest, think and create in a setting that provides ample opportunities to integrate nature into their practices.

our values:

To bring our mission to as many people as is safe and productive, Zero Foot Hills is committed to:

• Good stewardship of the land, allowing sustainable growing, foraging, and recreation
• No tuition/fees and limited costs for guests
• A space welcoming artists' families
• Respect for our neighboring communities
• Good faith commitment to maintain or improve ethical and equitable practices
• Readiness to host and collaborate with artists who share our Mission/Vision/Values

If you ever dreamed of spending an extended period of time in Cuba simply making art, then this residency is ripe for your consideration. Run by CubaSeen and Santa Fe Workshops, this nine-day residency in Havana offers an immersive program that provides time and space to focus on your creative process inspired by the culture of the city’s thriving arts scene with structured direction and feedback from Cuba’s fine-art professionals.

This is a unique opportunity to travel to Cuba legally while enjoying constructive artistic feedback mixed with unstructured time to think, feel, and create art. The residency culminates with an exhibition at a gallery space in Old Havana.

This residency allows you the time to explore, reflect, and engage your natural curiosity as an artist with support and feedback from influencers in Havana’s sophisticated art community. Homebase is CALIS HAVANA, a boutique hostel in the leafy suburb of Vedado. This renovated 20th Century mansion includes comfortable guest rooms with shared common areas to meet, review work, and share meals.

In addition to accommodations and workspace, the residency offers structured critiques with Cuban artists and curators including Nelson Ramírez de Arellano, Director of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center and Havana Art Biennial. Visits to galleries and artist’s studios further enrich the program’s outreach.

This residency complies with US Treasury Department General License requirements for legal travel to Cuba.

Ecotones is a consortium of biological field stations and marine labs that host artist residencies and other arts activities. As transition zones between two different environments, ecotones are rich environments. Living things from each habitat wander into the edge, and others specialize in the edge habitat itself. Wander into this rich ecotone where art, science, and the environment share overlapping boundaries. 

Please visit Ecotones webpage for listing of individual artist in residence programs at field stations and marine labs. Then visit each field station or marine lab's AIR website or contact each program directly for information.

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. Our goal is to support Black performing artists at all points of their process and to give them an opportunity to conduct in depth research without the pressure of presenting a completed work by the end of the residency.



Black Futures is proudly funded by the City of San Francisco’s Dream Keeper Initiative and administered by the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

Individuals and collaborative teams selected for the Black Futures residency program will receive:

• A $6,000 stipend which can be used how the resident sees fit.
• $2,500 to support the production of your work during the residency or to host an in-person engagement event for the Bayview community (eg, work-in-progress presentation, artist Q&A with talkback).
• Up to 100 hours of free rehearsal space at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco.
• A $1,000 stipend to a mentor of your choice to support you during your residency.
• Social media and marketing support.
• Additional professional development workshops to assist you with the creation of your required community engagement event, budgeting, grant writing, and brand asset creation.
• Additional resident gatherings geared towards sharing artistic practice, ideas around collaboration, and holistic approaches to well-being.

Lighthouse Works connects artists, writers, choreographers, and composers to Fishers Island and provides them with a unique supportive context to focus on their work.

By assisting innovative cultural producers at critical junctures in their careers and connecting their persons and work to our local community, Lighthouse Works reinforces the central role of the arts in our culture and enhances the vitality of Fishers Island, NY.

Lighthouse Works is W.A.G.E Certified and is a proud member of the Artist Communities Alliance.

https://wassaicproject.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/83245

Application Opens: 3/24/25

Application Deadline: 6/2/25

Application Fee (USD): $25.00

*Please email Dani Klebes (danielle@wassaicproject.org) if you cannot afford to pay the application fee.

Applications are run through our Slideroom portal. 

About Us

The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. We nurture connections between our artists and our neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries.

Wassaic Project 2026 Residency Program Open Call 

The Wassaic Project accepts proposals for our 2026 Residency program, which includes the Winter Residency program (Jan – April 2026) and the Summer Residency program (June – September 2026). This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through our Family Residency program. The residency fee is $900 (the fee is per artist/collab group/artist team/family). The fees cover: semi-private studio space(s), private room in a shared house (our Family program receives a private house), access to our wood shop, print shop, and kiln, staff support, and programming such as our visiting artist program, artist talks, studio visits, open studios, artist presentations, etc. 

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.