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.

Elsewhere Studios sits in Paonia, Colorado — a town of 1,500 in the North Fork Valley, where the desert meets the mountains, surrounded by orchards, farms, and vineyards. It's a place that shows up for its artists: a town-wide Final Friday art walk, a community radio station that puts residents on air, a public library that lends original artwork.

Artists come for one to three months. Three to four residents live here at a time and become a household — private rooms, a shared kitchen and commons, and a 360 sq ft main studio with high ceilings, easels, a lofted library, slop sink, and screen printing equipment. Out back, a terraced garden with an irrigation ditch running through it.

Three living spaces: the Suite (top floor, its own studio and a private bath with clawfoot tub), the Loft (right off the commons and studio), and the Gingerbread House (a wood-stove cabin in the backyard). Ceramics access at Paonia Clayworks down the road — wheels, slab roller, and kilns including raku.

Open to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, performers, scientists, activists, teachers, and students at any stage of career. Residents share their work through Final Friday open studios and a presentation in the main studio.

Sliding scale, $950–$1,600/month. Hosting one artist costs us roughly $2,500; grants, donors, and this community bridge the rest for everyone who comes. We are rebuilding our scholarship fund — if the fee is the only obstacle, apply anyway and tell

LIMEN is organized in partnership with Berlin Film Community, an association of over 30,000 members dedicated to supporting independent filmmaking and visual arts practice. LIMEN was co-founded by Linda Paganelli and Adriano Lostia — both long-standing members and co-founders of Berlin Film Community — bringing together Paganelli's background in visual anthropology and decolonial, queer-feminist filmmaking with Lostia's work spanning documentary film, humanitarian project management, and grassroots organizing.

Based at Casa M, a restored manor house in the medieval village of Siddi, Sardinia, LIMEN operates as a small, independently run residency — this is its inaugural edition, launching October 2026, with a long-term intention to continue as an annual program supporting artists working at the intersection of memory, land, and political and queer inquiry.

Casa Hechale’s International Artist Residency is a residential platform for theatre, performance, and new work in Mexico City. Designed for performing artists, it welcomes individuals, duos, and collaborations working across acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, translation, dance, movement, sound, and interdisciplinary performance.

Selected artists spend two or four weeks researching, writing, rehearsing, experimenting, or advancing a project. The residency is process-centered: no finished production or public outcome is required. Residents live and work under one roof, with accommodation, scheduled rehearsal and creation space, and the option to request Casa Hechale’s Black Box Theatre, subject to availability and prior agreement.

Each residency begins with orientation and includes a Community Manager, a project conversation with the creative team, and an advisory session offering feedback, dramaturgical exchange, mentoring, or professional dialogue. Residents may join performances, readings, workshops, talks, salons, and community gatherings while retaining independence. Each cycle includes an informal Open House, and relevant introductions may be arranged with artists and cultural organizations across Mexico City.

Open worldwide and operating in English and Spanish, the program fosters exchange among Mexican, Chicano, U.S., Latin American, Spanish, European, and international artists. Limited partial scholarships are available for four-week residents.

Nes is a process-oriented residency that strives to cultivate an environment where artists of all disciplines, both emerging and professional, craft their experience as they choose; whether through experimentation and intervention, conceptual development, or research, Nes gives artists latitude to explore at their own pace. We work to create a safe haven where all mediums, intellectual pursuits, artistic methods, and aesthetic inquiry are encouraged and celebrated.

As a remote residency located in a unique, challenging, and stunning landscape, Nes motivates artists to draw inspiration from the solitude (and presence) provided by the surrounding environment. Beyond the studio walls, Nes aims to provide opportunities for international dialogue, regional development, and local arts programing. Nes is deeply rooted in the community of Skagaströnd, and values collaboration of all kinds. We invite visitors to join us with a sense of curiosity and openness to connect with this extraordinary place through cultural exchange and artistic development.