Penland School of Craft offers three residency programs: the Resident Artist Program, the Core Fellowship Program, and the Winter Residency program. Each program caters to the needs of artists at different stages in their careers—from early career artists wanting to expand their skills, to established artists at transitional points in their work or careers, to professional artists requiring access to time, space, and studios in order to develop their work in new ways. 

Osage Arts Community is a residency program that provides temporary time, space, and support for the creation of new work in a retreat format. These creative residencies are generally anywhere from one week to one year but average around six months. OAC serves creative people of all kinds – visual artists, video artists, composers, textile artists, ceramicists, poets, fiction and nonfiction writers.

OAC is located on a 160-acre farm in an isolated rural mountainside setting in Central Missouri

Our mission: "To perpetuate and share the gifts of Rachel (“Bunny”) Lambert Mellon, including her residence, garden, estate and the Oak Spring Library, to serve the public interest. OSGF is dedicated to inspiring and facilitating scholarship and public dialogue on the history and future of plants, including the culture of gardens and landscapes and the importance of plants for human well-being."

MMCA Residency is an artist/researcherin-residence program run by the MMCA to provide a vital creative condition for Korean and overseas artists and expand their global network. MMCA Residency supports the creative and inquisitive activities of Korean and overseas artists and researchers of various genres, offering exhibition opportunities and a wide range of support programs to strengthen their creative abilities and encourage experimental exchange.

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.

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 Com

La Napoule Art Foundation (LNAF) offers artists-in-residence a unique environment of interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity at the Château de La Napoule, in Mandelieu-La Napoule, France. Removed from the distractions of daily life and surrounded by the inspiring light of the Mediterranean, LNAF residencies provide an unencumbered setting to exchange ideas and create.

L’AiR Arts* is a not-for-profit organisation (une association à but non lucratif soumise à la loi 1901) with a mission to support intercultural exchange through international arts residency programs. In collaboration with leading arts institutions and professionals, our residency programs support intercultural exchange, research, professional development and contemporary creation – while promoting diversity, inclusion and international understanding through artistic and cultural heritage. Located in Montparnasse, known as a historic hub for international artists in the beginning of the 20th century, the L’AiR Arts residency program grounds its commitment to contemporary arts within a historical perspective. 

Housed in a unique Prairie-style residential complex in the vibrant rural town of Nebraska City, Nebraska, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residency awards are 2 to 8-weeks in length. Each resident receives a $175 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio.