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Keep in mind that applying for an artist-in-residence program takes a lot of preparation time. That's why it is very helpful to check this page on a regular base.
Unesco Aschberg Residencies
Every year the Unesco Culture and Promotion Fund offers a unique bursary programme for writers, musicians and visual artists. Many host organisations all over the world are announcing special residency calls with different deadlines and conditions: check out yourself!
Argentina
Centro Rural de Arte
CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE is a non-profit civil association that aims to generate artistic projects in relation to rural environments. It organizes residencies, workshops, and joint projects with other organizations. According to the characteristics of each ...
Australia
Critical Path
Critical Path brings together national and international dancers and choreographers in a laboratory environment where risk taking play and experiment are encouraged.
Sturt
Sturt Craft Centre invites high profile makers from a wide range of contemporary crafts and art practices each year as part of the Artist in Residence Program. It is ideal for established craftspeople from Australia and overseas who see a need to ...
Canada
Oboro
OBORO welcomes original projects that promote critical thinking and artistic practices. They accept proposals from artists, artist collectives, and independent curators who are looking to present exhibits, events and conferences as well as to produce ...
Struts Gallery
Struts is a site for the engagement of contemporary, artist-initiated activities such as exhibitions, performances, demonstrations, workshops, symposia, residencies, screenings and so on.
Egypt
El Gouna Writers' Residency
El Gouna Writers' Residency was launched in February, 2010. El Gouna would host three sessions a year during the months of February, May and June. The length of each session is one month. During each session four to six writers will be inspired by El ...
Finland
Arteles
Culture Center Arteles is a hundred years old school transformed in to a dynamic working and conference center for the professionals in the field of art and culture. The center creates a platform for interconnected art and science productions, organizes ...
Artists Residency Sumu/Gallery Titanik
Arte Association's Artists' Residency SUMU offers one to three-month residencies in 2011 to Nordic and Baltic media artists, working in the intersection of new technologies and contemporary art. The stipend covers accommodation, a studio, daily ...
Fiskars Residency
The Fiskars Artist Residency was founded in the beginning of 2006. Foreign artists, writers and scientists are invited to apply for the residency.
Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking
The objective of Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking is to afford artists proper, functional and inexpensive facilities for work and to give them the opportunity to make acquaintance with the local colleagues and with the Finnish cultural and art life.
France
Point Ephémère
Point Ephémères is a centre for artistic dynamics. Its project shares artists' residences, public diffusion and active interventions in the city. This new centre gives necessary means to artists (in visual arts, music and dance) and public recognition ...
Germany
Akademie Schloss Solitude
The Academy constitutes a meeting point for artists from the world's various continents and cultures, as well as for representatives of different artistic fields and positions. They have the possibility of getting to know one anothers' work and ...
Artists Unlimited
Artists Unlimited is an artists association and art house that combines living and working under one roof since 1985. The project runs a gallery and a guest studio and has until now financed three-month-grants for 70 guest artists from all over the ...
GlogauAIR
Glogauer is an international meeting point for the visual arts. Its aim is to support and encourage contemporary artistic creation, research and debate. One of Glogauer's main activities is its Artist in Residence Programme. The purpose of this programme ...
Greece
Apothiki Foundation
Apothiki aims at introducing artists and organizations to the island atmosphere of Paros - a creative environment that has inspired artists for more than 5000 years - and further develop Paros as a meeting place for creative people from around the globe. ...
Netherlands
BijlmAIR
BijlmAIR is the Artist-in-Residence Programme of Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost (CBK Zuidoost - center of visual arts), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) and Stichting FLAT (FLAT foundation). For 2011 BijlmAIR invites artists and other cultural ...
Jan van Eyck Academie
The Jan van Eyck Akademie is an international post graduate institute for practical experiment and research in the field of visual culture. The academy combines three departments - fine art, design, and theory - as equal partners within a common ...
Norway
Flaggfabrikken
Flaggfabrikken centre for photography and visual arts is offering an opportunity for artists that work with camera based art to undertake a three months residency in Bergen, Norway. laggfabrikken is an artist collective based in Bergen. In addition to ...
Portugal
Binaural
Nodar guest studio (Nogs) is an important part of Binaural. The artistic residencies at Nogs are organized and produced in cooperation between Binaural and Associação Nodar, a communitary and cultural organization of the village of Nodar. Nogs aspires to ...
Singapore
Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking
The Objectifs Artist-in-Residence programme is open to all artists who incorporate photography and film in their work. The aim is to provide visual artists, who want to develop their craft, with a supportive platform, conducive for the creation and ...
Spain
Hangar
Hangar is a centre for arts production and research, set up by the Association of Visual Arts of Catalonia (AAVC) in 1997. It provides support facilities for artists and designers and offers services adapted to production needs associated with the arts ...
La Rectoria Contemporary Art Centre
The program is intended for professional artists working in the realms of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, print-making, photography, drawing, illustration, multiple techniques, installations), the media arts, and the arts and crafts, as well as for ...
Switzerland
Artists in Labs
The aim of the Artists in Labs Project project is to encourage education, research and innovative processes and methods of production, which blend the disciplines of art and science. Artists who are interested to apply for a residency term, are required ...
USA
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
The spirit and programs of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts are based on the conviction that exceptional talent deserves to be supported. Bemis' practical commitment to this belief is achieved by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living ...
Colorado Art Ranch
Colorado Art Ranch serves as a retreat for writers and visual artists. Artists and writers who attend Colorado Art Ranch have: a place to immerse themselves in their work, time to experiment, think and develop their work, an opportunity to collaborate ...
Denali National Park AIR Program
Numerous National Parks in America have begun Artist-in-Residence programs since 1984. With the establishment of this program, Denali National Park joins the list of those parks which seek to recognize and support the role played by artists in ...
The Griffis Art Center
The Griffis Art Center wants to cultivate and encourage contemporary fine art and artists and create an opportunity for international exchange among artists and the community through arts. The Artist-in-Residence Program is for artists involved in the ...
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, a research center at Brandeis University, develops fresh ways of thinking about Jews and gender worldwide by producing and promoting scholarly research and artistic projects. The residency programme provides artists the ...
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences
The Hambidge Residency Program provides setting, solitude and time for creative individuals working in a wide variety of creative disciplines. Fellowships are offered for two to eight week residencies, year round, except for the month of January.
Hedgebrook Writers Retreat
Hedgebrook exists to strengthen the voices of women writers of all ages and from diverse backgrounds by providing a place where they can find connections with one another and with the earth, and the words to build community in the world.
Indiana University School of Fine Arts
Co-sponsored by the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine arts and the Collins Living-Learning Center, Indiana University's Program for International Visiting Artist-in-Residence (PIVA) hosts one emerging international artist/scholar during the second ...
International Turning Exchange
Every year, several artists from around the world come together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The group includes artists skilled at lathe work, turning wood into objects of beauty. Other participants include scholars and a photojournalist to interpret ...
Jentel Artist Residency Program
The program welcomes visual artists in painting, printmaking (lithography press only), drawing, sculpture in mixed media, installation artists, and photographers (no dark room facilities) and writers in non fiction, fiction, poetry and playwri
Kala Art Institute
To provide a diverse, international body of artists with the tools, techniques, and well-organized professional facilities necessary to create high-quality works of arts.
MacDowell Colony
The MacDowell Colony provides a place where creative artists can find freedom to concentrate on their work without distraction.
Ragdale Foundation
Ragdale is a place for artists and writers to work. The Ragdale Foundation is committed to preserving the unique character of the Ragdale house and grounds and the spirit embodied in them to foster creative work by those in need of uninterrupted time, ...
Vermont Studio Center
The center aims to build an ideal international creative community that supports serious artists and writers by providing them with the seclusion of distraction-free working time, the companionship of professional peers, and the option of the counsel of ...
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
To provide serious artists with working facilities or conditions that they do not have on a normal, daily basis, such as adequate space, undisturbed time, and relief from day-to-day responsibilities.
Ucross Foundation Residency Program
The Ucross Foundation Residency Program offers the gift of time and space to competitively selected individuals working in all artistic disciplines. The Foundation strives to provide a respectful, comfortable and productive environment, freeing artists ...
