The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a 3-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music.

This joyful, collaborative program includes daily rehearsals and seminars, performances in the museum galleries, world music and improvisation workshops, technology and music entrepreneurship seminars, and concerts and events in the community. The Bang on a Can Summer Festival has been described as “utterly transformative” and “life-changing,” and it’s a place where musicians generate powerful connections with new life-long collaborators, friends, and colleagues.

Moku Art Studio's mission is to create a space that highlights art concerning environmental issues such as ocean conservation, education, and protection, as well as sustainability. We believe that providing artists with the opportunity to showcase their work is essential for strengthening the connection between our world and society. Our vision is to help the ocean to be inspiring and engaging through art and restore humanity’s relationship with it.

Providing Time, Space and Inspiration is the founding principle of Burren College of Art. Our Residencies provide a place to retreat, reflect, and explore your practice outside of the demands and rigors of daily routine. Set in the centre of one of Europe’s most dramatic landscapes, the Burren is a place where the power and beauty of nature envelops and invites you to expand your vision and abilities as an artist.

Our residency program welcomes applications from artists working at all levels and stages of their careers. While our primary BCA Artist Residency program provides dedicated studio space and the use of our campus facilities for residents without any additional expectations, we are also able to offer residency programmes designed to support those seeking a greater degree of professional feedback and involvement in the College community.

The Residency + and Burren Immersion:12-week Residency programmes are available during the academic year between September and April. The Residency + offers studio time combined with weekly meetings with our faculty, while the Burren Immersion:12-week Residency combines independent studio time with advisory sessions along with the option to audit one or more of our undergraduate courses (without academic credit) during the semester. All of our residents are welcome to attend public discussions, visiting artist lectures, seminars, exhibitions and events throughout the year.

Mattering Worlds is an international media art residency exploring artistic practice in relation to more-than-human ecologies, technological infrastructures, and environmental transformation. Hosted by Ars Techne in Armenia, the program brings together artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners working across disciplines such as media art, sound, bioart, speculative design, and critical technology studies.

The residency supports research-driven and process-based artistic work that engages with ecological responsibility, situated knowledge, and experimental forms of collaboration. Participants are encouraged to develop projects that reflect on planetary conditions, local contexts, and the entanglements between human and non-human agencies. Rather than focusing solely on production, the program emphasizes dialogue, field inquiry, collective learning, and public engagement.

Residents take part in workshops, site visits, reading sessions, and open studio moments, while also contributing to Ars Techne’s public program through talks, presentations, or small-scale interventions. The residency aims to foster meaningful exchange between international and local communities, strengthen interdisciplinary networks, and create space for critical reflection on how artistic practices can respond to contemporary ecological and technological challenges.

Residencies at Zea Mays Printmaking are designed to fit each artist’s unique needs and desires. In addition to our state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, we offer residents the opportunity to enhance their experience with one-on-one instruction with our expert faculty. Dig into a new printmaking technique, receive guidance and feedback on your works-in-progress, or learn to apply Zea Mays Printmaking’s sustainability methods to your existing practice.

Enjoy the luxury of a fully equipped private studio within our print shop. The Annex is equipped with a gorgeous Takach etching press (39.5″ x 72″), large work tables, flat file storage, a sink and plenty of wall space for work in progress. We are happy to bring in additional equipment and tools as needed including a vertical etching tank, large hotplate, large rollers and hand brayers, screen printing press, drying boards.

Residency artists have access to all of the other facilities in the studio during our open hours. These include:

• airbrush aquatint booth
• vertical etching tanks with Ferric Chloride mordant and Copper Sulfate Saline mordant
• plate shear
• photopolymer darkroom with NuArc K-1 exposure unit (for plates up to 18” x 24”)
• screenprinting darkroom with LED exposure unit for screens up to 27” x 34”
• screenprinting washout sink with power washer
• Vandercook 4 letterpress and Showcard letterpress with wooden type
• Digital Lab (computer, scanner, Epson 4900 printer)
• Print dryer and flattener
• Light table

There are four virtual residency programs: Ocean, Our Earth and Sustainability.

They focus on topics such as ocean conservation, sustainability and rooted communities, memory, territory, the earth, and climate.

They are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and are supported as an endorsed activity by the United Nations Decade of the Ocean.

There are 4 programs in support of and committed to UNESCO’s environmental and humanistic goals.

We guide residents so they can focus on working on a project for 6 weeks through virtual meetings (1 per week), exchange dialogue and ideas with other residents (of all nationalities), participate in talks with special guests related to science and ancestral perspectives, and thus enhance their work.

We hold a virtual Open Studio and an exhibition on a virtual map to conclude each program.

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