BenAmil is a rural artist residency in El Cedral, Cozumel, in the Mexican Caribbean. Surrounded by gardens and jungle, the program offers artists and cultural practitioners time and space to develop artistic or cultural projects in an island context. Facilities include private studios with bathrooms, a palapa with kitchen and creative workspace, shared accommodation for up to 10 residents, gardens, and natural surroundings. The program welcomes artists, cultural managers, thinkers, organizations, and institutions from anywhere in the world. Residencies are available year-round, with flexible lengths; stays of approximately 10 days are common. Whenever possible, each residency concludes with a public presentation or exhibition. Residents pay a partially subsidized participation fee; meals, transportation, and project materials are not included.

Casa Ceiba (also known as Yax Chee’ Jay in Tz’utujil) is a healing-centered cultural incubator and residency located in a private home in Santiago Atitlán. Rooted in Maya cosmology, collective care, and reciprocal exchange, Casa Ceiba offers a space where Indigenous, Black, Central American, and diasporic artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and organizers of the Global Majority can slow down, listen deeply, and create in relationship with land, ancestors, and community.

This residency is intentionally small-scale and relational. Every stay is co-designed with you—your intentions, your creative or organizing practice, and the experiences you feel called to cultivate. Your time here is meant to nourish your spirit, reconnect you with Maya ancestral knowledge, and strengthen solidarity across geographies. Casa Ceiba centers 2Spirit, Indigiqueer, queer, trans, women, young adults, and BIPOC creators, while welcoming people across the diaspora whose practices are grounded in respect, humility, and reciprocity.

Harkat offers self-organised residencies, ranging from a monthly to tri-monthly basis. Residencies are open to performance artists (theatre, music, dance,..), visual artists, digital artists, filmmakers, researchers who wish to use the darkroom and artist lab setup or the black box as a temporary working environment. Residents get to determine the structure of the residency, their creative intentions and workflow. The residency supports interaction with local artists, thinkers and makers; a deep understanding and experience of Indian urban culture, an overall opportunity to connect with and draw inspiration from homegrown communities. Harkat sees the residency as more than a service– a shared responsibility between the place and its temporary inhabitants.

The Harkat residency welcomes especially artists who don’t want to be confined to one artform, who want to expand their practice and who are looking to collaborate with local artists.

Life is Art is a hosted, multidisciplinary Artist Residency for women at any stage of their creative practice.

The Residency is self funded and self directed.

Exclusively offered to 3 Residents.

The Residency provides a curated container for 2 weeks in a private, oceanfront location in Playa Negra, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Resident Artist @pepallama will be onsite to guide and inspire you to Curate a Life that is a Work of Art, but you will use your time and space here as you wish.

Exploration of both the active (Yang) and contemplative (Yin) aspects of creativity is encouraged.

There is no expectation or pressure to produce finished work during your stay. 

The invitation is to slow down, to connect to the ocean and the natural world surrounding it, be inspired by a tropical paradise outside of your usual environment, and explore your creativity however you choose. You are the Artist of Your Life: Life is Art.

Neo Future - Thematic 2-week residency program in Finland, Dec 2026

Residency program for Creators & Visionaries of Tomorrow

Periods: 2 weeks
When: 3-18 December 2026
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
Application deadline: 3 September 2026

Neo Future: Shifting into new realities is a special short-term residency for people reaching beyond the familiar and investigating what may emerge next. Artificial intelligence, expanded consciousness, human transformation, singularity, future societies and realities not yet named form an open field for creative research. 

The transdisciplinary program brings imagination, inquiry and experimentation together across art, science, design, technology, philosophy and unconventional forms of knowledge. It is process-focused rather than outcome-driven, creating space to question present assumptions, follow emerging ideas and develop perspectives that may not yet fit established categories.

Find out more & apply: https://www.arteles.org

Ruby Mountain Project is an evolving collaboration of artists, residents, and community members rooted in the integration of art, connection, and land stewardship. It supports a diverse, climate-resilient habitat while serving as a land-based creative hub where local and international communities come together through meaningful shared experiences. With an embodied connection to the land and the thoughtfully designed, welcoming spaces, Ruby Mountain Project offers an artist residency, events and workshops that foster connection, creativity, and care for both people and place.

The residency program is for artists and creatives of most disciplines. We especially encourage those who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and early career/ development to apply. Residency programming runs from September through May, with most cohorts being 3 weeks long. 1, 2 and 7 weeks stays are also possible. Most cohorts will have up to 3 artists at a time. Open studios, artist presentations and special events are possible. There are no expectations for specific amounts of work to be created or productivity: rest, play and experimentation are welcome.