International Summer Program 2024 and AiR 2025 at The Watermill Center

Founded in 1992 by avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities situated on ten acres of Shinnecock ancestral territory on Long Island’s East End, offering year-round artist residencies and education programs. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, Watermill integrates contemporary artistic practice with resources from the humanities and research from the sciences to provide a global community with the time, space, and freedom to create and inspire.

Their longest-standing program, the International Summer Program unites a community of international artists for an annual creative intensive. Since 1992, the Summer Program has provided a unique opportunity for artists to develop new works alongside other emerging and established creative professionals, to forge an international community of collaborators across disciplines, and to push the boundaries of contemporary creative practice.

The International Summer Program is hosted annually from July through August. The 2024 Program will be from July 8 – August 1, 2024.

Since 2008, the tuition for each International Summer Program artists has been provided in full by the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. The Foundation covers housing, food, local transportation, materials needed for work in the program, and the facility’s operating cost. The Foundation raises these funds through sponsorships from foundations, as well as individual benefactors who support the mission of The Center by joining the Watermill Mentor Program.

Artists are required to pay the costs of their travel to New York and The Watermill Center. We encourage you to find individual funding through scholarships, foundations, and grants if needed. The Watermill Center provides a modest stipend to help offset travel costs and personal expenses.

The application is online with a deadline February 16, 2024. There is an application fee of (USD): $12.00.

The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program began in 2006, when The Center officially opened as a year-round facility. Each year, collectives and individuals take up residence at The Center to live and develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of artistic practice.

Residencies are scheduled by mutual agreement between the accepted Resident Artist and The Watermill Center during January-June and September-December. Residencies can be scheduled for a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of four weeks. Please view the application to get a better sense of the exact start and end dates.

There are no fees for participating in the Artist Residency Program. During the course of the residency, residents are responsible for living expenses such as food, travel to and from Watermill, production expenses such as art materials and supplies, and equipment rentals. Watermill will provide a modest stipend to offset these expenses. Additional details will be provided upon acceptance to the program.

The Watermill Center provides local transportation, housing, and workspace. If requested, The Watermill Center will supply signed letters of support for outside funding and, in some cases, can offer advice on potential funders to underwrite or assist.

The application is online with a deadline March 8, 2024. There is an application fee of (USD): $12.00.