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Montello Foundation Artist Retreat —Montello, Nevada

Deadline: current deadline has passed; check back in January
Application Fee: $15
Residency Fee: none
Length: 2 weeks
Stipend: no
Food: no meals provided
Family Members/Pets: Sure, no problem, bring them along, but the maximum number of occupants at any given time is 4. And please bring your own blankets for your hairy friends. The Foundation will expect that you will cleanup after your pets and that any damage to the building will be repaired and/or the foundation compensated.

Montello Foundation is a foundation dedicated to support artists who foster our understanding of nature, its fragility, and our need to protect it. The idea behind the retreat is that you are in this amazing desert landscape by yourself.  It's all yours, and you are part of all what is around you. There is no direct interaction with other humans, no staff or other artists, you don't have to be social or not, decide whether you go to your room or chat all night. You focus on being social using your art you work on while you are there, or do sketches to work on it afterwards, or you can just relax from working and spend two week in the hammock. (We are sure you will have at least one great thought and will act upon it afterwards.) Your social responsibility is with the audience of your work, not the immediate humans around you. What's important is to get the message out: Nature is a fragile thing and we have to take care of it. So, no meals are provided, but you will have a fine little kitchen with a fridge.*

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ARE YOU A NATIVE OR FIRST NATIONS ARTIST?

Institute of American Indian Arts A-I-R — Santa Fe, New Mexico

Deadline: March 28, 2018
Application Fee: none
Residency Fee: none
Length: 3-8 weeks
Stipend: $2250 for a three-week residency; $3000 for four-week residency; $4500 for a six-week residency; $6000 for the eight-week Sculpture and Foundry Residency
Food: yes

The IAIA Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) Program hosts artists for variable-length residencies taking place on the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the Academic year. Each A-i-R program provides opportunities for Native and First Nations artists to travel to the IAIA campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a meaningful period of art-making and interaction with IAIA students, staff and faculty, and the Santa Fe arts community. Applicants whose work engages with cultural traditions through materials, techniques and subject matter are particularly encouraged to apply.

Housing, meal plan for one person on campus, and $200 budget for gas during residency, studio space on campus, $500 materials budget, and airfare to and from IAIA and reimbursement for a rental car, or mileage reimbursement for artists driving a personal vehicle to travel for the residency.

Opening and closing receptions, public workshops and demonstrations, classroom visits, critique sessions with students, and events hosted by other organizations in Santa Fe. There are four types of residencies available: Studio, Sculpture and Foundry, NEA and Sunrise Springs Residencies.

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH MASTER ARTISTS (INCLUDING WRITERS, COMPOSERS AND VISUAL ARTISTS) IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENT?

Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist Residency — New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Deadline: deadline for each session is different; view schedule
Application Fee: $25
Residency Fee: $900; financial aid available if accepted
Length: 3 week
Stipend: none
Food: 3 meals a day Monday-Friday; Meals are not provided on the weekends, however, ACA arranges transportation to the market twice a week and the kitchen facilities are available 24/7.

Atlantic Center for the Arts is an innovative nonprofit artists-in-residence program that provides artists with an opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s masters in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Since the program began in 1982, over 3500 artists have been served from the US and around the world.

The three week Residency Program brings together three “Master Artists” from different disciplines, such as the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, film/video, and multimedia), architecture, music (composition and performance), literature, choreography, dance, performance art, and theater. Each Master Artist determines the requirements and basic structure of their residency, and through an online application process, they each select eight “Associate Artists” to participate in the three-week program. The essence of the program is to provide a collegial environment for artists of all disciplines where they can engage in meaningful interaction and stimulating discussions, while pursuing individual or group projects. It is an ideal setting for the exchange of ideas, the inspiration for new work, and the cross-fertilization of disciplines. The programs can include formal classes, discussions, individual meetings, individual and group critiques, collaboration, and studio time. The award-winning Leeper Studio Complex provides residents with resources such as a painting studio, sculpture studio, digital media studio, dance studio, music/recording studio, writers’ studio, black box theatre and library.

Associate Artists are provided with a private room with a full-size bed, bathroom with shower, small refrigerator, and desk space with a view of the natural vegetation.

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ARE YOU PART OF A COLLABORATIVE OR A COLLECTIVE?

Drop Forge & Tool’s Creative Residencies — Hudson, New York

Deadline: Jan 15 (for summer), May 15 (for fall) and September 15 (for winter) 
Application Fee: $10 
Residency Fee: $175 per person per week, with discounts offered for collaborative groups of 4 or more. We reserve a few spaces each residency period for artists or collaborative groups who do not have funding and cannot afford the fee. 
Length: a few days to 3 weeks 
Stipend: none 
Food: basic breakfast supplies and one dinner per week with the directors

Our emphasis is on collaborative process and new work development. We prioritize residency applications as follows: 1) Collaborative Group: A group of two or more artists looking for residency time for concentrated collaborative work on the same project. 2) Co-working Group: A group of two or more artists who are would like to share residency time and space together, but are not necessarily collaborating on the same project. 3)Individual Artist: One artist willing to share the residency space with one or many other artists.

We can accommodate 7-12 artists at a time—or more, if you’re good friends! Residents are responsible for taking everyday care of the residency space, doing basic household chores (like dishes, cleaning and taking out the trash), and helping with seasonal work like snow shoveling or gardening where needed.

For artists who would like an opportunity to show their work-in-progress to a friendly, supportive community, we can host a performance, open studio, or other type of showing, either in the DF&T space, or with a local partner. In the past, we’ve had theater performances, house concerts, book release parties, open readings, small gallery viewings and open studios.*

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Penland School of Crafts — Penland, North Carolina

Penland's resident artists are full-time, self-supporting artists who spend three years living and working in the Penland School of Crafts community. The program is designed for artists who are at some pivotal moment in their career—the residency is an opportunity for them to test ideas and make choices that will have a lasting effect on their work and their lives. Resident artists may use the time to develop their studio practice, to work out the practicalities of making a living, to push technical and conceptual boundaries, or to explore entirely new directions in their work.

The primary expectation of resident artists is that they engage intently with their work. They are also expected to have an open door policy, welcoming students, instructors, and the public to their studios, both informally and formally through the resident open house that is part of each Penland session. Pets, spouses and children allowed.

Education at Penland is built around intense, total-immersion workshops. The resident artist program enriches the workshop program in a variety of ways: students are inspired by the work and the work spaces of the resident artists, who serve as models for the kind of commitment required for sustained artistic production. And, with seven or eight participants at any given time, the program provides diverse examples of ways to make a life in craft.

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