WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice is a land-based culture hub that incubates new performances, cultivates deep community and hosts transformational events.

Manifesto:

Our bodies are cultured. 

Our embodiment practice (and unexamined habitual patterning!) channels into our artmaking.

Art shapes culture.

And the culture we co-create circles back around to shape our bodies.

We can interrupt the default course of this cycle at any point:
with critical thinking and strategic detox from the overculture’s impact on our bodies;
with embodiment practice that repatterns how we self-express;
with art that affirms life, honors all bodies, opens regenerative possibilities.

This is our work:
to support a spiral of cultural, embodied, creatively expressed love.

Vision:

Performances created as an expression of deep integrity nourished by embodiment practice while living close to the earth.

WildHeart is body positive, anti racist, queer magic.

Much administrative, manual and emotional labor supports these priorities. In the nitty-gritty of walking the walk, we provide food and housing, land access, studio space, event planning, logistical coordination, and marketing outreach.

THE BLANC is a five-story contemporary art space housed in a historic building in Midtown Manhattan. Founded in 2021 as a "blank slate" for interdisciplinary exchange, it has grown into a versatile ecosystem that presents contemporary art exhibitions, hosts artist studios, maintains a robust events calendar, and runs a residency program.

Our mission is to foster an inclusive, transformative space that supports artists at every stage of their careers, empowering them to push creative and professional boundaries while engaging with New York's vibrant cultural landscape. We do this through diverse programming—including exhibitions, performances, public events, workshops, panels, and incubator initiatives—that connects artists with each other, with audiences, and with the city's broader creative community.

The Current is a nonprofit center for contemporary art in Stowe, Vermont, connecting people with contemporary artists and ideas through exhibitions, education, artist residencies, and public programs. Serving a rural community while engaging artists from Vermont and beyond, The Current presents free exhibitions and public programs alongside arts education for children, youth, and adults. Through exhibitions, commissions, residencies, workshops, artist talks, and community and school partnerships, The Current creates opportunities for artists and audiences to engage in creativity, critical inquiry, and meaningful dialogue.

Located in Tacoma, Washington, Museum of Glass is a premier contemporary art museum dedicated to glass and glassmaking in the West Coast’s largest and most active museum glass studio. The Museum has a reputation for hosting impactful and engaging artist residencies, organizing and exhibiting nationally traveling exhibitions, and creating unique programs for visitors, all while building a growing permanent collection chronicling the development of the glass art form. 

Since opening in 2002, the Museum has served as a catalyst for change in Tacoma. The iconic building was erected on a Superfund site which started the restoration of the Thea Foss Waterway. Today, you will find a thriving arts and culture center, including six museums all within walking distance.

Museum of Glass is inherently a maker’s space. Our Hot Shop and Hot Shop Team — considered to be among the finest in the world — provide rare public access to glassmaking demonstrations, and host dozens of Visiting Artist Residencies annually, including students from the Hilltop Artists program, contributing to the development of individual artist careers and the global glass art community.

Skopje Biennale is a nonprofit organization dedicated to contemporary art, cultural exchange, and international artistic collaboration. Founded with the vision of positioning Skopje as a dynamic meeting point for artistsnfrom around the world, the Biennale promotes dialogue, solidarity, and shared humanity through art.

Rooted in thee spirit of Skopje as a City of Solidarity, the organization builds upon the city's rich history of post-earthquake reconstruction, international friendship, and cultural openness. Skopje Biennale creates platforms where artists from different countries and cultures come together to co-create, exchange ideas, and reflect on universal human values such as hope, peace, dignity, freedom, and resilience.

Skopje Biennale operates with transparency, inclusiveness, and a strong commitment to artistic excellence and social impact. It believes that art can transcend borders, heal divisions, and build bridges between people and cultures.

Echo Arts is an artist-run residency and art, performance, and arts education space in the Texas Hill Country, our mission is to support working artists by providing them with time, space, and a stipend to create their work. We believe that making art is a vehicle for making a kinder, more just world. We will welcome practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines, such as music/sound, painting/drawing, film/video/dance, photography, writing, and sculpture. 

Our vision is to make experimental, expansive, and affordable art programming in the Hill Country, while facilitating artist immersion in this unique part of Texas. We will cultivate dialogue among artists and create opportunities for them to work and exhibit in this natural setting–enriching the region culturally, fostering connections between urban and rural communities, and, in the wake of the devastating summer 2025 flooding, contributing to spaces of joy, reflection, and collective recovery. Echo Arts will strive to be accessible and supportive to everyone, with special attention paid to childcare and in building out and renovating our studios to accommodate differently-abled bodies and minds. Our program structure and schedule will be wholly artist-centered.

Echo Arts will create a connection between the Hill Country and the world. Artists working with Echo Arts will contribute to the local community through public classes, exhibitions, and more. Our organization will host an annual experimental arts festival, featuring performances and outdoor installations. One way we will foster a vibrant, supportive arts community on a local, national, and international scale is by including thoughtful, engaged artists, art workers, educators, and other humanity-affirming individuals and groups in the planning of Echo Arts from the start. Echo Arts artist residency will open to our first artists in Spring/Summer 2027. 

A Path of Creativity, A Journey into Community

Senda d'Arte is an independent multi-disciplinary artist residency, creative retreat, and sanctuary for makers hidden in the dramatic Cantabrian Mountains of Asturias, Northern Spain. Standing at 4 Plaza de la Paz in the historic heart of San Martín de Teverga, our three-story building was built in 1906. As one of the original great houses in town, it has born witness to over a century of local history, triumphs, and transformations. Today, it has been thoughtfully restored to serve as a tranquil place to slow down, create, and connect.

Our name translates to "The Path of Art," and it is a literal and metaphorical nod to our goals and surroundings. We sit directly along Senda del Oso (The Bear's Path), a legendary rails-to-trails pathway that winds through mountain rivers, limestone canyons, and lush fields. 

Just as the Senda del Oso was once a mining railway built to extract raw materials from the earth, Senda d'Arte represents a different kind of journey—an intentional, creative passage to unearth deep inspiration, fresh ideas, artistic growth, and to foster community for small groups of artists working alongside one another. 

Wonder Mountain Open Source Space Residency welcomes LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC artists and creators to an immersive two-week program offered year-round. This residency embraces a wide spectrum of visionaries—writers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, performers, designers, digital innovators, cultural workers, community builders, healers, curators, scientists, and multidisciplinary makers of all kinds. We also encourage groups and collectives to apply, as well as those who wish to facilitate community-engagement workshops. Set in the wide-open desert landscape of Wonder Valley, California—just a short drive from Joshua Tree National Park—our space offers both stillness and inspiration. Here, creators can step away from the noise, reflect and reset, nurture bold new ideas, and reconnect with the elemental cycles of nature and cosmos.

Residency fees are $1250 USD for two-week stays. Longer stays are negotiable and scholarships are available. Note: The residency fee does not include food and travel. However, free transportation can be arranged in advance from the Palm Springs Airport.

We encourage artists and writers seeking a quiet and inspiring rural desert environment to apply to Wonder Mountain Open Source Space. Our space is surrounded by the plants and creatures of the Mojave: Yucca brevifolia is indigenous to the region and isn’t found anywhere else in the world. Come see the desert flowers in bloom as the meteor showers explode in the darkness and stillness of Wonder Valley. Wonder Mountain Open Source Space encourages creative professionals of all backgrounds to apply for admission. The space is centered on principles of self-reflexive artistic practice that embraces the healing elements of the land as a site of reciprocal action. We envision an aesthetics of generosity, compassion, and an astral breadth of scope that seeks to nourish the creative spirit in all producers who venture to travel here.

The space is located on the traditional ancestral homelands of the Serrano, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi and Mohave (Mojave) indigenous communities, the land that encompasses what’s known as so-called Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, and Wonder Valley.

We at Wonder Mountain Open Source Space acknowledge the Serrano, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi and Mohave (Mojave) indigenous people, the traditional custodians of this land. We recognize the ongoing impact of colonization and displacement on Indigenous communities. We honor their deep connection to this place and their enduring stewardship of the land and waters.