The Green Box Artist in Residency program offers artists of national and international stature, from diverse disciplines, and at any stage in their career the opportunity to develop, create, and/or present new works while living in and engaging with the community of Green Mountain Falls, a beautiful small mountain community located in Ute Pass, by the foothills of Pikes Peak. Launched in February 2020, the program has grown to sponsor artists annually, with as many as eight residencies offered each year. Past artists in residence include Chad Mount, Irby Pace, Denys Drozdyuk & Antonina Skobina, American Ballet Theatre, 600 Highwaymen, Sommer Browning, Emily McDaniel, Alexandra Lockhart, Matthew Jamal, Jessica Kahkoska, Michael Krondl, Summation Dance, the Nomadic Photo Ark, Molly Rideout, Stillhouse Junkies, Amir Amiri, brooke smiley, Paula Bohince, Arvin Ramgoolam, Nikki Pike, Edwin Ushiro, Bill Frisell, and Carole d'Inverno. 

Lodging is provided, and deliverables will be determined during the application process. During their stay, artists are expected to engage with local residents and other cultural organizations to enhance arts offerings in the region. 

Specific residency application requirements may change from year to year, but are released at the beginning of September. See current applications here.

The Steepletop Residency, inaugurated in 2021, is a partially-subsized one-month stay; intended for scholars and creatives with institutional or private funding, cost is $3000.

Steepletop residents are scheduled from April-November and are excluded from blind jury process; stays include groceries, chef-prepared communal suppers, private bedroom and studio, shared living/kitchen/dining, washer/dryer access, workstation w/printer, Nancy Graves Memorial Library, Alumni Collection and B&W darkroom. Our composer's suite has a Yamaha U-1 upright piano.

Our Core Residency program -- we will celebrate our 50th anniversary in July 2023 -- is one of the longest-running in country. Judged blindly by jurors who are practicing professionals and/or alumni, from April-November each year we welcome 6-7 multidisciplinary creators to come to Steepletop (the historic estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay) for one month stays (June and September also have two-week session availabilities). We have a number of fellowships that come with stipends available. To date we have hosted over 3000 exceptional poets, nonfiction/fiction writers, screenwriters, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, visual and performance artists. Works made possible by a residency enrich lives and communities globally: our alumni are consistently recognized with international honors (MacArthur and National Book Awards; Pulitzer, Lambda Literary and Pen America prizes, Guggenheim Fellowships and others). Core residencies are fully-subsidized and free of charge; they include: groceries, chef-prepared communal dinners, private bedroom, private studio and shared living/kitchen/dining.

Members of the Oregon Coast Recorder Society have raised $103,000 to establish a recorder residency at Sitka, beginning in 2003.

To be eligible for the residency, applicants are required to earn part of their income from recorder performance or recorder instrument composition. This is to indicate that applicants should have a degree of professionalism, and people at the beginning of a career are as welcome as mature artists.

Residencies are 2 – 6 weeks in length, and living space and a studio are provided. Past residents have taught  workshops  and given concerts in the community. New in 2022: An anonymous donor is supporting a $500/week honorarium in support of this residency. The honorarium can be used in any way the resident chooses.

Thanks to a grant from the Ford Family Foundation, the Sitka Center will be able to offer a special residency opportunity to practicing, mid-career, Oregon artists. This program is for 2-4 weeks based on the artists availability.  This residency includes a stipend of $500 per week. This stipend is designed to make taking the time for a residency more feasible. All visual artists who meet the guidelines below are welcome to apply.