Creative Alliance — Baltimore, Maryland
Deadline: Monday, February 27
Residency Fee: $675-$815/month
Application fee: $15
Length: 1 - 3 years
Stipend: none
This live/work residency accommodates eight resident artists or artist groups, one in each of the studios, for terms of one to three years. It is intended for emerging artists as well as mid-career artists whose goal is to reinvigorate their work in an intensive creative atmosphere. Artists are encouraged (but not required) to use the studios as their primary residence.*
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BOLT Residency — Chicago, Illinois
Deadline: March 15, 2018
Residency Fee: CAC is eliminating the fee-based model for BOLT Residency in an effort to reduce barriers to application and participation. A security deposit and nominal cost for insurance purposes will be required to confirm your participation.
Application fee: $15
Length: 1 year
Stipend: CAC offers a small stipend for production costs in preparation for the solo exhibition.
You must be a resident of Chicago to apply for this studio-only residence. BOLT Residency is a highly competitive, juried, one-year artist studio residency program offering emerging and established artists the opportunity to engage the Chicago arts community and its public in critical dialogue about contemporary art. Located at the Chicago Artists Coalition’s brand new 6,700-square-foot facility in the vibrant Kinzie Industrial Corridor, BOLT provides workspace, creative community, exhibition opportunities and professional development for Chicago-based, contemporary artists. Benefits include: One-on-one studio visits with prominent members of the greater arts community and a solo exhibition in a dedicated, 400-square-foot gallery space.*
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Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program — Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: February 15, 2018, 11:59PM
Application Fee: none
Residency Fee: none
Length: 1 year
Stipend: none
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free, non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies. Its mission is to provide working studio space and community for artists. Artists are selected annually based on merit from a competitive pool of applicants by a professional jury comprised of artists and members of the SWSP Artists Advisory Committee.*
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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council — New York, New York
Deadline: yearly, the last Thursday of January
Residency Fee: none
Application fee: none
Length: 9 months
Stipend: A one-time stipend of approximately $1,100 is provided, depending on available funds.
Emerging visual artists, performing artists, and writers working in all media and genres are eligible to apply to this nine-month studio residency program that focuses on creative practice development for emerging artists working across all disciplines, LMCC’s Workspace program offers space for experimentation and dialogue with peers and arts professionals, as well as career-advancement opportunities. Workspace encourages creative risk-taking, collaboration, learning and skill-sharing at a critical early stage of an artist’s career and serves between 15 and 20 individuals or collaborative groups annually.
Salon evenings are required weekly participant meetings on Monday nights that include one-on-one studio visits, professional development workshops, a guest artist lecture series, potluck dinners, and more. Open Studios are required events where the general public is invited to visit your studio and learn more about your process and work.*
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Flux Factory — Long Island City, New York
Deadline: Applications now closed. Please check back in March 2018
Application Fee: none
Residency Fee: $725 - $1000, depending on studio size
Length: 3, 6, 9 or 12 months, depending on availability
Stipend: none
Flux Factory provides a welcoming community of artists and arts administrators, as well as a number of useful facilities at our residents’ disposal. The building is equipped with a wood shop, silk screen studio, craft room, co-working office, expansive gallery space, and audio visual equipment. The gallery houses exhibitions, weekly events, and workshops, and residents are encouraged to participate in the development of our annual major exhibitions. Through Flux, Residents are also granted access to Materials for the Arts, New York City’s premier reuse center.
In addition to cultivating residents’ personal practices, the residency program schedules monthly studio visits with curators and offers its participants opportunities to exhibit artwork, shape Flux Factory’s diverse programming endeavors, contribute to the Flux Factory collaborative projects, and be immersed in the thrilling cultural landscape of New York City.
As a part of a community run center for artists, Flux Factory residents are asked to take part in the creation and maintenance of its facilities and programming. On Monday nights, all Flux Factory residents and administrators attend a weekly meeting (which also includes a gigantic dinner!) so that we may foster a sense of community and discuss the evolving needs of the program.
Residents are asked to put in volunteer hours toward space renovation and a weekly chore. We are frequently renovating our building–a process that would be impossible without our dedicated network of volunteers. A constantly changing physical and social environment, Flux is always a work-in-progress, and there are many opportunities to leave one’s mark.*
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Artspace Regional Emerging Artist Residency — Raleigh, North Carolina
Deadline: March 30, 2018 (for July 2018 – January 2019); September 15, 2018 (for January – June 2019)
Application Fee: $25
Residency Fee: none
Length: 6 months
Stipend: none
Every six months, Artspace selects two artists in their early professional careers to participate in the six-month residency. Artists must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents over 18 years of age and must currently reside in the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia). Resident artists receive 24-hour access to a private rent-free studio. The Residency concludes with a one-month solo exhibition at Artspace.
During the Residency, artists benefit from opportunities for professional development and collaboration with peers. Residents actively contribute to Artspace’s artistic and educational programming by participating in First Friday, being available for studio visits and tours, and working in their studios during Artspace’s business hours. Residents are also required to give a presentation, artist talk and/or demonstration to the public to coincide with their residency or exhibition.
Artspace strives to be fully accessible to artists with disabilities. Artspace’s facilities are fully accessible and we encourage all artists to consider submitting for our residency opportunities.*
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Space + Time Artist Residency — Guttenberg, New Jersey
Deadline: Winter and Summer 2019 program open call begins June 2018.
Application Fee: none
Residency Fee: none
Length: 3 months
Stipend: $1,200.00
STAR provides artists with stipends to cover materials, travel and access to a professionally equipped workspace for the visual arts including printmaking and ceramics. Artists work is supported with a group show at the end of the residency and three studio visits with arts professionals. Each artist will present a public lecture on their work or conduct a free public workshop towards the close of their three month residency. Guttenberg Arts promotes each STAR fellow in print and on the web, through exhibitions and art fairs. 24/7 shared access to a 4,500 sq ft. professionally equipped workspace for the visual arts including printmaking, dark room and ceramics for three months. Artists will also be given a one month final group show. Each artist is required to give a free and open to the public artist lecture or workshop towards the close of their three month residency. We highly recommend a site visit to our building. Artists are selected by a blind jury of arts professionals on the merits of their work.*
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Crosstown Arts — Memphis, Tennessee
Deadline: July 15, 2018
Application Fee: $10 (applicants may apply for an economic hardship waiver)
Residency Fee: none
Length: studio-only: up to 10-months; live/work: 20 days to three months
Stipend: Three Withers Residencies—for an individual artist of color working in any discipline who ambitiously addresses the intersection of race and social inequality in their work—are awarded each year and include a $1000 stipend for each artist.
Other perks: Residents receive a free membership to the on-site YMCA, a full-scale fitness facility with limited childcare, cardio equipment, weights, group exercise classes, and yoga. Residents who do not have health insurance may receive free health care coverage through Church Health, a non-profit organization which operates a walk-in clinic on-site.
The multidisciplinary artist residency program offers residencies for visiting and Memphis-based visual and performing artists working in any creative discipline as well as musicians, filmmakers, and writers in all genres. All residents are asked to participate in a limited number of public engagement activities while in Memphis such as an informal artist talk or public performance/project, open studio event, or exhibition.
Residents are provided with on-site access to Crosstown Arts’ shared art-making workspace with a range of analog and digital fabrication and production resources, including a woodshop, multiple CNC/laser cutters, a Mac-based computer lab, a large-format digital printing service, a silkscreen/print shop, a small recording studio, and individual editing bays for video/audio production.
Founded in 2010, Crosstown Arts (501c3) recently completed the renovation of Crosstown Concourse, a one-million-square-foot former Sears & Roebuck distribution warehouse. The Concourse building is now home to Crosstown Arts’ contemporary art center that includes the artist residency program, multiple galleries, large-scale exhibition/installation spaces, screening rooms, and a listening room dedicated to live music performance. Crosstown Arts also operates an after-school program, a community-organized exhibition/performance venue, a café, and bar. A 425-seat black box performing arts theater is currently under construction on-site and scheduled to open in the summer of 2018.
Crosstown Concourse is also home to a major health and wellness initiative, including a walk-in clinic for the uninsured and a fitness facility inside the building, both available to participants in Crosstown Arts’ residency program.*
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Recology — San Francisco, California
Deadline: Applications are accepted June 1 – September 1
Application Fee: $20
Residency Fee: none; artists also receive a stipend
Length: 4 months
Stipend: $1200 a month
The Artist in Residence (AIR) Program at Recology San Francisco is a unique art and education program that provides Bay Area artists with access to discarded materials, a stipend, and a large studio space at the Recology San Francisco Transfer Station. By supporting artists who work with recycled materials, Recology hopes to encourage people to conserve natural resources and promote new ways of thinking about art and the environment.
At this time, we accept applications from local, career-level, professional artists. Students currently enrolled at any university, college, or other educational institution will not be considered. We also do not accept applications from artists who reside a driving distance of more than one hour from San Francisco.
During their residencies, artists have scavenging privileges and 24-hour access to the company’s well-equipped art studio. Artists speak to elementary school classes and adult tour groups about the experience of working with recycled materials. At the conclusion of their residency, Recology hosts a two-day public exhibition and reception for the artists featuring the artwork made during their residency. When the residency ends, artists contribute artwork to the program’s permanent collection and these pieces continue to be shown in off-site exhibitions that promote recycling and reuse.*
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18th Street Arts Center — Santa Monica, California
Deadline: rolling, but acceptance depends on studio availability
Residency Fee: Price is based upon square footage. Rents are subsidized with prices at ranging between $1.00 and $2.00 square feet – which is well below market value for comparable studio space in the area. Most of our studios range from 400 to 1,000 square feet.
Application fee: none
Length: 1-2 years
Stipend: none
Local studio artist residencies are open to local artists who wish to rent either live/work or day studios at the center for terms of 1-2 years with a possibility for renewal. These studios are subsidized in part by 18th Street Arts Center at far below market rate in an effort to provide local artists with affordable rental properties within Santa Monica. The program is open to artists of all disciplines, as well as small, artist-run initiatives. Participants are selected through an application process on the basis of availability.
The Artistic Director reviews applications when they are received, and applicants are chosen by an outside selection committee of experts. However, until a studio space is open, the selection committee will not evaluate applications for consideration. Studios open up on average every 2 to 3 years. Potential candidates for the Local Studio Artist Residency are invited for an in-person interview with the selection committee and 18th Street Arts Center staff as a prerequisite to occupancy.*
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