Artist Opportunities

The Basel House of Film offers residencies for artists working in the field of film and television. Together with supporters and partners, the association was able to create a place of inspiration for filmmakers and an opportunity for the city of Basel to spread its rich offerings into the world, using the medium of film.

Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on five acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby affiliate housing, which includes a traditional Cretan house, a converted stone windmill, and two caravans, as well as workspace in modern studios built from converted shipping containers.

Prospect Street Writers House’s philosophy is embodied in poet Donald Hall’s maxim, “The friendship of writers is the history of literature.” Up the hill from the village of North Bennington, Prospect Street celebrates written language and fosters literary discourse. Residents will find themselves among peers in a distraction-free environment designed for comfort and productivity. Entry Fee: $30

To support performing arts events and public art installations in and around the Village of Brockport for the benefit of residents and visitors.

ISCP has two residency programs: the International Program for artists and curators, and the Ground Floor Program for New York based artists. All residents are offered an individual studio that is accessible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. ISCP offers a direct application method for applicants who would like to secure sponsorship on their own.

Well known by visual artists as the “Gift of Time,” the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide studio-based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for a whole year. This residency allows artists to work without distraction in an effort to break new ground and focus on individual goals. Entry Fee: $26.32

NEST Art Residency (ICA Yerevan) is developed as an open, cross-functional network of people, ideas, and desires. Its Education, Project, and Theory Labs provide a comprehensive set of resources, facilities, and tools for understanding and operating in the contemporary art scene in Armenia and in wider global art contexts.

The Residencia Corazón Artist in Residency Program engenders the creation of a personalized and independent exchange among regional, national and international artists. The resident / visiting artists enjoy a dynamic and vibrant time frame for working; they have a studio and living space at their disposal to complete their projects. They also network with and within the local art community, cultural institutions and the public at large. Each artist, curator or writer receives exclusive and highly-personalized support from the Residencia Corazón team. Application Fee 700 US Dollar (USD)

Self-Directed Residencies are for adults 18+ seeking time and space to immerse in their creative artistic or scientific work in an inspiring landscape and campus. They are fee-based residencies without the formal application process. They are available in 4-night or 10-night sessions on specific dates. Meals are not included.

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to hosting visual artists and curators from all parts of the world to live and create in Athens, Greece, and the Bronx, New York —thereby facilitating a diverse influx of expression, production, and learning. ARCAthens’ mission is to provide opportunity and support to Visual Artists, Curators, and Scholars to further their research to focus on bridging international dialogue, cooperation, and understanding.

Kaatsbaan residencies are in service of Kaatsbaan's mission to provide opportunities for artists of all genres to create, live, and collaborate in the idyllic countryside of the Hudson Valley. Providing a productive and creative working environment, Kaatsbaan residencies are individually designed between the artists, Kaatsbaan, and partners to fit the needs of the artists or company. Kaatsbaan is a year-round operation. All facilities are heated and air-conditioned.

Dorland Mountain Arts is a beautiful retreat where artists, writers, musicians, and composers can create in a secluded and protected natural setting. Dorland is located near Temecula Valley Wine Country, about 100 miles south of Los Angeles and sixty miles north of San Diego. Application Fee 40 US Dollar (USD)

Venture to the rural rolling hills of Appalachia in the Western Highland Rim—one of the best light-pollution-free zones in the region. Explore the flora and fauna of the biodiverse region of midsouth Tennessee. You'll have access to seventeen acres with a variety of habitat, furnished housing, space to work, and interactions with the camp donkeys, chickens and roosters, camp cats, two farm dogs, and a peafowl couple.

Belgrade Art Studio Residency is a nonprofit international art program designed to bring artists, creative practitioners, researchers, and writers from around the world to experience a unique cultural environment dedicated to art. Selected artists are invited to live and work in a specially designed studio for a period of up to six months. By bringing artists into a unique setting, the program aims to situate art at the very heart of historical Belgrade.

Taleamor Park welcomes applications from scholars, artists, scientists, writers, humanists, and remote workers in all fields or from those with no specific product-oriented project in mind other than to simply unwind, walk, and reset. Taleamor Park offers a creative, contemplative, and safe environment free of distractions in which to pursue a scholarly, artistic, personal, or work-related project.

La Porte Peinte residency centre is designed to enable creative exploration, concentrated work, and exchange in an inspiring and supportive environment. La Porte Peinte USA, as a nonprofit branch of the larger LPP project, aims to widen the field of opportunity to increase diversity, with a focus on individuals or groups who might otherwise lack access to such resources. LPP aims to extend support to these artists through residencies, masterclasses, collaborations, or exhibitions.

Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies between April and October to artists and writers. Residents are provided with a private workspace and bedroom, as well as use of a shared kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and garden area. The space is less than a ten-minute walk to shops, cafés, and bars, as well as the Château de Nérac castle and riverside walk.

Designed with artists and creative women in mind, Yellow Residency seeks to facilitate and support the art-making, writing, app-developing, poetry-making, graphic designing and many other inspired endeavors for two amazing women…and many more to come. It is our goal that the shared studio space will foster creativity, collaboration and connection. $50 Application fee

The Museum of Outdoor Arts’ Design and Build Fellow is responsible for leading our Design and Build summer internship participants through a set of collaborative art making projects. These projects provide lessons in working with new materials and techniques and inform participants in the public art process.

The Grant Wood Fellowship is a prestigious, year-long opportunity offered exclusively at the University of Iowa, designed to support bold and innovative artists in painting and drawing, printmaking, and interdisciplinary performance. Each year, three fellowships are awarded through a competitive national selection process.

The Hambidge Center hosts the region’s oldest self-directed residency, offering private live-work studios that support uninterrupted creative time. Residents shape their own process without required activities. Small cohorts share chef-prepared vegetarian dinners that foster community and collaboration. Participants span diverse disciplines and come from across the U.S. and abroad. Facilities include the Antinori Pottery Studio and a restored Steinway grand piano. $30 Application Fee

The Factory’s AIR program is designed to support emerging artists with a place to live for up to 3 months. During this time selected applicants can focus full-time on further developing their creative practice as they take steps to cross the bridge into becoming career professionals.

Art Omi supports a wide variety of artistic disciplines through five distinct residency programs. Their residencies include: visual/studio art (via Art Omi: Artists), architecture (via Art Omi: Architecture), dance / choreography (via Art Omi: Dance), music and composition (via Art Omi: Music), and writing & translation (via Art Omi: Writers).

The Creativity Grant for Projects is available to independent artists and arts organizations. There are two options to choose from: the Planning & Development grant is intended to support the early stages of research and development for a proposed project; the Implementation grant is intended to support the execution of a specific arts projects/event/program.