Founded in 1996, Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) empowers women & gender-diverse people internationally to apply their unique perspectives in the field of ecological art & social-justice art through networking, education, & opportunities, including:

• Online directory of 600+ artists
• Annual online and in-person member exhibitions with a catalog & speaker series, with guest jurors like Beverly Naidus, Maru García, Jane Kim, & Leah Dalton
• Annual online magazine curated to inspire to artists & scientists and be an archive of the field; Susan Leibovitz Steinman, executive editor
• Monthly e-newsletter with featured artists, events, & opportunities; Mary B. White, editor
• Art+ online speaker series of emerging and established artists, critics, educators, & scientists; Deborah Durant, curator
• Two residencies, one in partnership with Berkeley Youth Alternatives & one in partnership with Planting Oceania
• In-person workshops like working with recycled glass, visible mending, & eco-somatic movement
• Film screenings, including Maintenance Artist and Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
• Partnership events with organizations like Bioneers, San Francisco Estuary Partnership, & 500 Capp Street

BIOS Organisation: An urban cultural platform in the centre of Athens. 

BIOS is an independent grassroots cultural organisation based in Athens, dedicated to exploring urban culture through contemporary art, creative practice, education, and civic engagement. For more than two decades, it has supported emerging artists, creatives, and cultural practitioners while fostering new forms of cultural expression that reflect the complexities, contradictions, and possibilities of contemporary urban life. 

Operating at the intersection of culture, creativity, and the city, BIOS develops platforms for experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration through exhibitions, performances, residencies, talks, festivals, and interdisciplinary projects. Its mission is not only to present culture, but to create the conditions in which new ideas, artistic practices, and creative communities can emerge and thrive. 

Today, BIOS operates through four interconnected venues across the centre of Athens. The Residency programme is hosted at Romantso, in the Gerani neighbourhood in Athens. 

Romantso, the former printing plant of the infamous "Romantso" magazine, is situated in the historical center of Athens and functions both as an incubator for start-up companies within the creative industry and as a cultural center, organizing and hosting a variety of, accessible to the wider public, events, on a daily basis. As a creative hub, Romantso brings together people shaping culture, design, media, and new ideas, offering flexible ways to work, connect, and grow. 

BIOS is among the founding members of the ECHN (European Creative Hubs Network)

DE PROEF is a vibrant ecological campus and living heritage site, blending history, nature, and creativity. Set on eight hectares of meticulously documented historical gardens—originally a horticultural school’s educational garden (1884)—it now features 493 inventoried trees from 407 species, monumental avenues, and a trial garden that supplies the on-site Proeflokaal cafe.

DE PROEF. is located in Frederiksoord, on the UNESCO site of the former Colonies of Benevolence.

The campus offers diverse experiences: enjoy seasonal dishes at the Proeflokaal, sourced from the gardens and local producers; join workshops on wild harvesting, fermentation, or gardening; or hire a space for meetings, events, or weddings in its monumental buildings. The Proefshop sells local gifts, books, and vouchers, while the atelier crafts custom furniture and gifts.

 DE PROEF is a community-driven space where ecology, heritage, and creativity converge, inviting everyone to eat, learn, and work surrounded its unique surroundings.

NIRMAN is an independent educational and cultural organisation based in Varanasi, India. Founded in 1990, it brings together a progressive school, professional artistic practice, research, and ecological restoration across its city campus and the Gangavan Forest riverside campus. For more than three decades, NIRMAN has welcomed artists, researchers, educators, students, and collaborators from around the world through residencies, study programmes, and artistic and academic exchanges.

Rooted in Varanasi, one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, NIRMAN's work is shaped by the cultural, ecological and educational traditions of this place.

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. 

The Joan Mitchell Foundation cultivates the study and appreciation of artist Joan Mitchell’s life and work, while fulfilling her wish to provide resources and opportunities for visual artists. 

Through its work, the Foundation affirms and amplifies artists’ essential contributions to society. 

The Foundation supports research, scholarship, and exhibitions to ensure Joan Mitchell is widely recognized and studied as a significant artist.

The Foundation’s grants, residencies, and related initiatives recognize artistic excellence and elevate a wide range of visual artists and practices. We work to actively expand the visual arts to better reflect the diverse world in which we live.

At the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, we offer artists dedicated time and space for the creative process through 6 or 10 week residencies. Artists have opportunities to engage with arts professionals, partner arts organizations, and others in the community.  

Residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center provide the crucial elements of time and space for artistic experimentation—while offering artists opportunities to engage with arts professionals, partner arts organizations, and others in the community.

LIMEN is organized in partnership with Berlin Film Community, an association of over 30,000 followers 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.