Residencies & Retreats
Research Residency Program 2026
The open-call program “Research Residency Program” aims to invite distinguished and highly motivated creators in the fields of visual art, film, design, architecture, music, sound art, performing art and curation from all over the world and offer them with opportunities to work in Tokyo.
Deadline: June 25, 2025
Deadline: June 25, 2025
Submission Fee: Free
The open-call program “Research Residency Program” aims to invite distinguished and highly motivated creators in the fields of visual art, film, design, architecture, music, sound art, performing art and curation from all over the world and offer them with opportunities to work in Tokyo.
Eligibility:
Has considerable experience in his/her specialized area of expertise and is expected to make good achievements in the near future
Has sufficient ability to communicate in English with other residing creators and TOKAS staff for mutual understanding
Independent and capable of working and living on his/her own
Creators working as a duo are also eligible
Students are ineligible (except for Ph.D. candidates)
What you get: Living space (single room)
International Creator Residency Program 2026
The open-call program “International Creator Residency Program” aims to invite distinguished and highly motivated creators in the fields of visual art, film, design, and architecture from all over the world and offer them with opportunities to work in Tokyo. We provide financial support to allow creators to develop and present new works and ideas. The result of the residency will be presented at the OPEN STUDIO and/or the Result Presentation at TOKAS Hongo.
Deadline: June 25,2025
Deadline: June 25, 2025
Submission Fee: Free
Eligibility:
Resides outside of Japan
Has 5 years or more of experience in his/her specialized area of expertise
Has sufficient ability to communicate in English with other residing creators and TOKAS staff for mutual understanding
Independent and capable of working and living on his/her own
Creators working as a duo are also eligible (A duo consisting of at least one creator residing outside of Japan is eligible)
Students are ineligible (except for Ph.D. candidates)
About the residency: The open-call program “International Creator Residency Program” aims to invite distinguished and highly motivated creators in the fields of visual art, film, design, and architecture from all over the world and offer them with opportunities to work in Tokyo. We provide financial support to allow creators to develop and present new works and ideas. The result of the residency will be presented at the OPEN STUDIO and/or the Result Presentation at TOKAS Hongo.
What you get: Living space (single room), airfare, living expenses (per diem), and fee for creative work/project
Hambidge Center’ Artist Residencies
Situated on 600 acres in the mountains of north Georgia, Hambidge is a sanctuary of time and space that inspires artists working in a broad range of disciplines to create works of the highest caliber.
Deadline: Recurring
Deadline: Recurring April 15, September 15, January 15 – The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences provides a residency program that empowers talented artists to explore, develop, and express their creative voices.
Submission Fee: $30 Application Fee
Situated on 600 acres in the mountains of north Georgia, Hambidge is a sanctuary of time and space that inspires artists working in a broad range of disciplines to create works of the highest caliber.
Apply now for the upcoming season.
Eligibility: Qualified applicants must be working at a professional level in their field. We seek applications from emerging and mid-career creatives, as well as from those who are established with national and/or international reputations.
Applications for residency are judged primarily on the quality of submitted work samples and professional promise. Hambidge accepts approximately 170 artists each year. There are no publication, exhibition, or performance requirements contingent on a Hambidge residency.
The Hambidge Center encourages creative professionals of all backgrounds to apply for admission. We celebrate varied ideas, world views, and personal characteristics, and are committed to being an organization that welcomes and respects everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, race, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, geographic origin, and socioeconomic status.
WHEN
Hambidge’s Residency Program opens mid-February and closes mid-to late-December through the month of January. Application deadlines are:
Apply from March 1 through April 15 for the FALL SESSION (September through December).
Apply from August 1 through September 15 for the SPRING SESSION of the following year (mid-February through May).
Apply from December 1 through January 15 for the SUMMER SESSION (June through August).
Hambidge is closed from mid-December to mid-February.
FEES & FELLOWSHIPS
The actual cost of a residency is $2250/wk. Every year, the Hambidge Center raises funds to supplement $1950 for every residency week, leaving each resident with only the $250/wk fee.
Hambidge offers several merit-based Distinguished Fellowships which remove the fees for a two-week residency and provide a $700 stipend. Available Distinguished Fellowships vary from session to session and are listed in the Awards & Financial Assistance section of each session’s application. Unless otherwise noted, they are reserved for first-time residents… See website for current listing.
STUDIOS
Hambidge has 9 secluded cottage/studios which provide living and working space, feature great views, lots of privacy, kitchens and bathrooms.
MEALS
Resident Fellows gather each evening Tuesday through Friday in Lucinda’s Rock House for delicious vegetarian fare prepared by our talented chef.
SETTING
Hambidge is located on 600 pristine acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains featuring nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole, an abundance of wild flowers and crisp, clean mountain air.
Ocean: International Virtual Residency and Exhibition Program – III Edition
MANGO Residencia para Artistas (Buenos Aires – Argentina), in collaboration with Moku Art Studio (Los Angeles – U.S.), proposes a program where the objective is: a shared virtual exploration with and among artists to create a personal project that will have a virtual exhibition, connecting with the ocean. This program has been recently incorporated by UNESCO – Ocean Decade as an official activity. The creative process is enriched through shared experience. Opened to all artists disciplines! The program has a duration of 5 virtual meetings (1 per week) + 1 “Virtual Open Studio” which will also serve as the opening of the virtual exhibition. During the program, the artist must develop an artistic project. It should consider, in some aspect (whether technical, conceptual, reective, or experiential), the theme: “Ocean”.
Deadline: June 8, 2025
Deadline: June 8, 2025
Eligibility: International
Submission Fee: The total cost of this program is USD 220 (United States dollars).
Both MANGO Residencia para Artistas and Moku Art Studio are self-sustainable and non-profit spaces
and currently do not receive financial support from public or private entities.
The costs will cover:
• Active participation in the Virtual Artist Residency (which includes active participation with
other artists in the residency, with members of MANGO Residencia para Artistas or Moku Art Studio,
and in meetings with special guests).
• Access the marine scientific community.
• Participation in the Virtual Open Studio and the Virtual Exhibition.
• Promotion of the artist during the program, promotion of the program itself, promotion of the
Open Studio, and the 5 months Exhibition.
ABout the residency:
MANGO Residencia para Artistas (Buenos Aires – Argentina), in collaboration with Moku Art Studio (Los Angeles – U.S.), proposes a program where the objective is: a shared virtual exploration with and among artists to create a personal project that will have a virtual exhibition, connecting with the ocean. This program has been recently incorporated by UNESCO – Ocean Decade as an official activity. The creative process is enriched through shared experience. Opened to all artists disciplines! The program has a duration of 5 virtual meetings (1 per week) + 1 “Virtual Open Studio” which will also serve as the opening of the virtual exhibition. During the program, the artist must develop an artistic project. It should consider, in some aspect (whether technical, conceptual, reective, or experiential), the theme: “Ocean”.
What you get: 5 week virtual residency & 5 month virtual exhibition
R.E. Award 2025 Residency
The [R.E. Award 2025] and [r.e. award 2025] are residency and exhibition-based art awards designed to support diverse artistic practices and creators. The R.E. Award 2025 provides opportunities for artists and collectives with an established practice to deepen their engagement with new contexts, while the newly introduced r.e. award 2025 is tailored for artists, encouraging experimental and boundary-pushing projects.
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025
Award Info: Up to ¥100,000 in support
Eligibility:
Applicants must:
Be open to actively engaging with local communities during their residency.
Be an individual artist or a collective.
Have at least five years of artistic experience (not required for “r.e. award 2025” applicants).
There are no restrictions on age or nationality.
About the Residency: The [R.E. Award 2025] and [r.e. award 2025] are residency and exhibition-based art awards designed to support diverse artistic practices and creators. The R.E. Award 2025 provides opportunities for artists and collectives with an established practice to deepen their engagement with new contexts, while the newly introduced r.e. award 2025 is tailored for artists, encouraging experimental and boundary-pushing projects.
Through exhibitions, residencies, events, and workshops, we have fostered exchanges between artists, communities, and places. This year, our initiative is jointly organized by ASP (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and hazi (Aichi, Japan). We invite you to position yourself within a "three-point perspective," with your current location as one of the observation points, alongside ASP and hazi. By reconsidering borders—both conceptual and physical—we hope this award will serve as a catalyst for new artistic expressions that extend beyond personal and geographical boundaries.
What you get:
R.E. Award 2025
Up to ¥100,000 in support.
A residency opportunity of approximately one month at either ASP, hazi, or both, providing space for research, experimentation, and artistic production.
At the end of your residency, you will have the opportunity to make some kind of presentation, such as an exhibition or workshop, if you wish.
r.e. award 2025
Up to ¥30,000 in support.
A residency opportunity of approximately one month at either ASP, hazi, or both, providing space for research, experimentation, and artistic production.
At the end of your residency, you will have the opportunity to make some kind of presentation, such as an exhibition or workshop, if you wish.
Graduate Residency Programme
Leith School of Art’s Graduate Residency programme offers a unique opportunity to develop a substantial body of new work within an established Art School leading towards professional practice or further postgraduate study.
Deadline: June 06, 2025
Deadline: June 6, 2025
Submission Fee: free
Eligibility: The programme is open to applications from current final year students or recent graduates (within two years) from BA or MA courses in Art and Design. In exceptional circumstances we will consider applicants who do not meet this criteria; please contact the School to discuss further.
About the residency: Leith School of Art’s Graduate Residency programme offers a unique opportunity to develop a substantial body of new work within an established Art School leading towards professional practice or further postgraduate study.
What you get: Successful applicants will benefit from dedicated studio space, available at all times during School opening hours, allowing for flexibility of working practice and the scope to develop a new body of work. Graduates will be encouraged to develop an ambitious proposal challenging previous work or current practice and will be allocated a personal tutor to oversee their development throughout the year. Graduates will receive critical feedback on their work and learn how to situate their practice in the wider context of the contemporary art world. Course Structure During the programme graduates will develop a proposal of study within art or design practice, outlining focused critical enquiry and personal contextual research. Studio practice will be supported by gallery visits, exhibition opportunities and professional consultation from visiting practitioners. One day a month is structured around seminars in professional practice. Seminars will discuss personal practice, liaising with galleries and collectors, building a support network, developing an online presence, managing time and money, collaborating with others working in a similar field and developing a greater critical awareness of individual practice. In addition graduates will be offered the opportunity to contribute to lectures, seminars and studio teaching with the guidance and support of our experienced staff team. Graduates will be encouraged to develop an online research portfolio including an archive of recent works and relevant written texts. This portfolio will be available for peers and tutors and may be adapted at the end of the course to become an online portfolio.
Feminist Creative Residency, Centre Pompadour
CP promotes artistic, creative, scientific work and research projects in the fields of feminism and gender studies and a lotta fun.
CP welcomes like-minded creative professionals from all over the world to work on individual or collaborative projects that place feminist empowerment and gender equality at the heart of the creative process and outreach. CP offers accommodation and private work spaces for a determined period of time.
Deadline: Ongoing
Deadline: Ongoing
Submission Fee: Free
About the residency: CP promotes artistic, creative, scientific work and research projects in the fields of feminism and gender studies and a lotta fun.
CP welcomes like-minded creative professionals from all over the world to work on individual or collaborative projects that place feminist empowerment and gender equality at the heart of the creative process and outreach. CP offers accommodation and private work spaces for a determined period of time.
Eligibility:
Individual Creative and Reading Residencies: To qualify for an individual creative or reading residency you have to be a creative professional or do research in any field with a feminist topic. We accept individual feminist residency proposals of minimum 2 weeks and maximum 2 months.
Collaborative Research Retreats: For a collaborative research retreat (for institutions or teams)in any field with a feminist topic of minimum one week please send us a detailed proposal. Our capacity of 5 double bed rooms and 2 individual rooms (all with private bath rooms) can welcome up to 12 feminist researchers. (For a collaborative research retreat we accept a minimum of 6 participants)
Institutional Partnerships: For a study retreat (art, literature, feminist, or gender studies) organized by an educational institution of minimum 3 weeks for teachers and students with their own work program please send us a detailed proposal. Our capacity of 5 double bed rooms and 2 individual rooms (all with private bath rooms) can welcome up to 12 students and 2 teachers
Fees: Please note that we are a non-for-profit organization, and that our feminist facilitators are volunteers.
The residency fee per person and per week (for a room with private bathroom, linens and towels, wifi, breakfast Monday to Friday and 1 weekly vegetarian château dinner included, bikes, shared studio space and transportation to and from the train station in Abbeville) is 600€.
Should you wish to travel with a friend and share a room, the residency fee for 2 feminists in one room is 800€ per week (in one room with private bathroom, linens and towels, wifi, breakfast Monday to Friday and 1 weekly vegetarian château dinner included, bikes, shared studio space and transportation to and from the train station in Abbeville).
Should you wish to travel with 2 friends and share a room, we can offer the attic loft, with its private bathroom. the residency fee for 3 feminists in the attic loft (linens and towels, wifi, breakfast monday to friday and 1 weekly vegetarian château dinner included, bikes, shared studio space and transportation to and from the train station in Abbeville) is 1000€.
Please note that availability might change based on dates and length of your stay.
If you should be accepted as a resident at CENTRE POMPADOUR and travel on a stately/private or educational grant, we are happy to provide you with an official acceptance letter if needed.
For emerging feminist creatives of any age we offer 3 grants per year of 50% off our residency fee. Should you apply for a CP grant please let us know why the cultural counsel of your town, region, country, public or private institution has declined founding your feminist residency at CP.
Traveling costs and expenses for working material must be paid by the residents.
Willowtail Residency, Mancos, Colorado, USA
Willowtail is a unique property, offering one – three week residencies that have a special appeal to artists. Sixty acres tucked away in the high, alpine desert of the Four Corners Region writers come to begin or work on novels, poems, memoirs, screenplays, musicians practice, compose and rehearse, visual artists paint, draw, sculpt, and photograph. However, the best quality of Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center is its ability to offer a quiet inspiring space to reflect, research, experiment, explore, laugh and create, easily, intensely.
Deadline: Ongoing
Deadline: Ongoing
Submission Fee: $25
Eligibility:
Full Scholarship, Partial Scholarship and Fully Self-funded Residencies:
Must be an emerging, established or mid-career practitioner in the visual arts, performing arts, film/multi-media, literature, music, ecology or natural sciences.
Residencies are open to local, national and international applicants. All are encouraged to apply.
About the residency:
Willowtail is a unique property, offering one – three week residencies that have a special appeal to artists. Sixty acres tucked away in the high, alpine desert of the Four Corners Region writers come to begin or work on novels, poems, memoirs, screenplays, musicians practice, compose and rehearse, visual artists paint, draw, sculpt, and photograph. However, the best quality of Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center is its ability to offer a quiet inspiring space to reflect, research, experiment, explore, laugh and create, easily, intensely.
Application Deadlines
Full-Scholarship, Partial-Scholarship or Fully Self-funded Residencies: for one or two week Full Scholarship Residencies or Partial Scholarship Residencies. Applicants can apply all year.
Willowtail is looking for individual practitioners in the arts.
Willowtail is also looking for two residents in two different mediums to participate in a collaborative Residency. We will look at writing, film, poetry, visual arts or music which deal with this theme. The two residents awarded would both reside at Willowtail for two weeks at the same time and work both individually and in collaboration with each other.
For application questions: info@willowtail.org.
Our Board meets 4 times per year to consider applications.
For more information on eligibility criteria and selection process for Willowtail Residents, plus what the residency includes, please visit our Guidelines page.
The F Project Artist Residency
The F Project welcomes artists from all over the world to stay in the picturesque and historical south west corner of Victoria, Australia. We live and work on the traditional lands of the Peek Whurrong people of the Gunditjmara and Maar nations.
The F Project Residency Program provides a space for artists to further their art practice in a stimulating, comfortable, creative and supportive environment. We offer residencies of 2 weeks or more at our centrally located residence. This opportunity is open to individuals as well as teams, and we encourage cooperatives to apply – it’s an ideal place for a group residency!
Deadline: Ongoing
Deadline: Ongoing
Submission Fee: There is no application fee, however residency fees may apply. Please see website for further details.
About the residency:
The F Project welcomes artists from all over the world to stay in the picturesque and historical south west corner of Victoria, Australia. We live and work on the traditional lands of the Peek Whurrong people of the Gunditjmara and Maar nations.
The F Project Residency Program provides a space for artists to further their art practice in a stimulating, comfortable, creative and supportive environment. We offer residencies of 2 weeks or more at our centrally located residence. This opportunity is open to individuals as well as teams, and we encourage cooperatives to apply – it’s an ideal place for a group residency!
Stochastic Labs Residency
Stochastic Labs awards fully-sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world.
Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated workspace, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
Deadline: Ongoing
Deadline: Ongoing
Submission Fee: Free
Stochastic Labs awards fully-sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world.
Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated workspace, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams. While applicants may be at any stage in their career, the selection is highly competitive. Applicants may request funds to support travel and other expenses.