Curaumilla Arts Center residency program intends to foster artistic growth and exploration. Residents are encouraged to push themselves to cross the border towards new creative and artistic expression. They encourage "Applied Contemporary Art" aimed at finding art experiences associated with deep immersion processes, both individual and collective, through space for experimentation, risk, questioning, provocation, astonishment, and creation.

Applications to residencies are open throughout the year. Residencies are held during autumn and spring (Chile).