Caldera Artists in Residence offers artists of any discipline to find inspiration from the natural world at Caldera’s property in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Central Oregon. Expanding Caldera’s creative ecosystem of more than 300 artists, our residency program showcases diverse adult learners and connects artist residents with Caldera youth.

Adults are an important part of Caldera’s environment, serving as inspiration to young learners and sometimes as direct instructors. Caldera’s Artists in Residence (AiR) program supports artists, creatives, and cultural workers in continuing to unlock the potential of their creative voice in adulthood. Specifically, AiR builds skills, relationships, and projects that inspire growth and activate change.

The NIRMAN Residencies offer time and space for sustained artistic and research practice within a living campus. Bringing together international cohorts of residents, the programme supports independent work while providing opportunities for dialogue across disciplines and practices. 

Some residents work primarily in solitude, while others engage more actively with the life of the campus through conversations, workshops, or shared activities. Residency experiences include communal meals, a Hindustani music baithak, a forest walk, a boat journey on the Ganga, and a concluding public showcase. Participation in community activities is always optional, allowing each resident to find their own balance between focused independent work and engagement with campus life.

The programme includes Independent, Collaborative, Thematic, and Family & Extended Residencies, allowing different forms of creative and research practice to find an appropriate context.

Casa Ceiba (also known as Yax Chee’ Jay in Tz’utujil) is a healing-centered cultural incubator and residency located in a private home in Santiago Atitlán. Rooted in Maya cosmology, collective care, and reciprocal exchange, Casa Ceiba offers a space where Indigenous, Black, Central American, and diasporic artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and organizers of the Global Majority can slow down, listen deeply, and create in relationship with land, ancestors, and community.

This residency is intentionally small-scale and relational. Every stay is co-designed with you—your intentions, your creative or organizing practice, and the experiences you feel called to cultivate. Your time here is meant to nourish your spirit, reconnect you with Maya ancestral knowledge, and strengthen solidarity across geographies. Casa Ceiba centers 2Spirit, Indigiqueer, queer, trans, women, young adults, and BIPOC creators, while welcoming people across the diaspora whose practices are grounded in respect, humility, and reciprocity.

A free residency for artists & musicians to practice their craft without distractions in a safe, natural environment on an urban ranch in Austin, TX. Please note that this is an alcohol & drug-free residence.

Futures Fellowship

This fellowship supports artists with research-based projects who are reimagining the possibilities of museums, scholarship, and public engagement. The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) awards funded residential fellowships to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture.

As part of our commitment to fostering diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP particularly seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline. In addition to the general Clark Fellowships, which are open to any topic, time period, and geographic focus, RAP offers a number of special fellowships for specific research interests that are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history.

All fellows receive a stipend; are provided offices in the open-stack, 280,000-volume art history library of the Manton Research Center; apartments in the gracious residence across the street from our 140-acre campus; and reimbursement of travel expenses. Fellowships typically last for one semester, but longer- and shorter-term opportunities are available.

For more information and application details, please visit clarkart.edu/rap/fellowship. The application portal may be directly reached at clarkart.smapply.io.

Applications are due by October 15, 2026 fo

Located on the southwest coast of Washington, we are both a historic lodge and vintage trailer resort, and the home of Sou’wester Arts, a nonprofit organization offering artist residencies, workshops, and community programs year-round.

The Sou’wester is just a ten-minute walk from the shoreline. Nestled between towering pines and the Pacific Ocean, it offers a rare balance of quiet solitude and creative community. Through our nonprofit branch, Sou’wester Arts (501c3), we host a range of artist residencies designed to support experimentation, reflection, and connection:

Sou’wester Arts also facilitates opportunities for visiting artists to collaborate with our local preschool, creating intergenerational exchanges that celebrate play, imagination, and the creative process.

Residents enjoy a stay in one of over 30 vintage trailers, minimalist trailers, 4 cozy cabins, or 5 historic lodge suites.

During your stay, you’ll have access to Tuesday afternoon tea and zine-making gatherings, unlimited coffee, forested nooks, communal spaces and optional private bookings in the Garden Spa & Finnish Sauna or Tea Trailer.