Residencies & Retreats
Elf School of the Arts July-September 2025 Residency
Elf School of the Arts is a nonprofit artist residency in Hayesville, NC. Situated beside the Appalachian Mountains and Lake Chatuge, Elf was originally an elementary school started in 1928, but has been renovated from 2022-2024 into an artist residency and concert venue. Elf's primary mediums are book arts, casting, cooking, drawing, jewelry, music, lapidary, paper arts, photography, printmaking, weaving, welding, woodworking, and writing.
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Submission Fee: Free
Elf School of the Arts is a nonprofit artist residency in Hayesville, NC. Situated beside the Appalachian Mountains and Lake Chatuge, Elf was originally an elementary school started in 1928, but has been renovated from 2022-2024 into an artist residency and concert venue. Elf's primary mediums are book arts, casting, cooking, drawing, jewelry, music, lapidary, paper arts, photography, printmaking, weaving, welding, woodworking, and writing. Residencies at Elf run from 1 week up to 3 months. You can apply to experiment, produce a body of work, use specific equipment, or expand on an idea. A private bedroom and studio are provided during your stay. The residencies are free, however consumables, materials, food, and travel are not included.
Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship 2026
Writers, visual artists - incl. painting, graphic arts, sculpture, media arts, and photography - and composers as well as scholars with a research project on Romanticism or on questions relating to the previously divided Germany can apply until April 15, 2025, for a three-months residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf in 2026.
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Submission Fee: Free
Eligibility: Applicants must have completed an artistic or academic course of study, be working on a doctorate, or have distinguished themselves through publications or long-standing professional artistic or academic work, and can provide samples of their work to substantiate this. Applicants may not be under 18 years old.
About the fellowship: Writers, visual artists - incl. painting, graphic arts, sculpture, media arts, and photography - and composers as well as scholars with a research project on Romanticism or on questions relating to the previously divided Germany can apply until April 15, 2025, for a three-months residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf in 2026.
What you get: All fellows receive a monthly cash stipend of €1200 and a one-time grant of €480 to cover material expenses. In addition to that, room and board (three meals a day) for free.
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.
International Artist Residency in Hayama, Japan
The mission of Hayama Artist Residency is to introduce visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offer them an opportunity to have their first gallery exhibition in Japan. The residency dates are June 1 - 30, 2026. This is a 4-week residency in a small, coastal Japanese town in Kanagawa Prefecture, on central Honshū, Japan.
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Submission Fee: There is a $95.00 USD application fee for first-time applicants.
Eligibility: The Hayama Artist Residency application is open to any visual artist over 21 years old, working in any medium—based anywhere in the world, regardless of race, gender, culture, or religion. We can only accept applications in English at this time. It is our goal to offer applications in other languages in the future.
Included as part of the residency: If you are selected for the residency, you will receive a roundtrip flight to Narita International Airport (Narita) or Tokyo International Airport (Haneda), and shared accommodations for 4 weeks. Each artist-in-residence will receive a weekly allotment of $200 USD for meals and local transportation. There is a $95.00 USD application fee for first-time applicants. Your application will be reviewed by our director and Selection Committee - a cohort of international curators and arts professionals.
About the Residency: The mission of Hayama Artist Residency is to introduce visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offer them an opportunity to have their first gallery exhibition in Japan. The residency dates are June 1 - 30, 2026. This is a 4-week residency in a small, coastal Japanese town in Kanagawa Prefecture, on central Honshū, Japan.
PLEASE NOTE: The application deadline is extended to 11:59pm Eastern Time on September 30, 2025. We will notify the selected artists by December 15, 2025.
IF YOU ARE A "RETURNING APPLICANT" WHO APPLIED FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR THE JUNE 2025 RESIDENCY, PLEASE EMAIL director@hayamaartistresidency.com FOR A NEW APPLICATION LINK.
Pre-Columbian Ceramics Non-Instructional Residency Program - Puebla, Mexico
This unique residency offers artists an opportunity to engage deeply with traditional ceramics techniques rooted in Puebla’s historical and cultural legacy. Hosted at Arquetopia or a partnered studio in Cholula, the residency emphasizes non-instructional, hands-on production under mentorship and supervision by skilled local master ceramists.
Deadline: Ongoing
Deadline: Ongoing
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Type: Residency
• Eligibility: Open to international artists
• Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Sculpture
• Location: Puebla, Mexico
Program Overview: This unique residency offers artists an opportunity to engage deeply with traditional ceramics techniques rooted in Puebla’s historical and cultural legacy. Hosted at Arquetopia or a partnered studio in Cholula, the residency emphasizes non-instructional, hands-on production under mentorship and supervision by skilled local master ceramists.
Participants will work with handmade processes according to Puebla’s colonial Talavera ordinances, avoiding industrial chemicals in clays and glazes. In addition to supervised technique guidance, the program includes:
• Personalized research assistance and resources.
• Project critique and guidance from the directorial and curatorial team.
• Access to specialized facilities tailored to traditional ceramics production.
This program provides a rich environment for artists to produce unique works while exploring and preserving the heritage of pre-Columbian and colonial ceramics.
La Maison de Beaumont - Artist Residency Program
La Maison de Beaumont offers an Artist Residency in Provence & Luberon as part of the prestigious ResArtis network (a worldwide network of 550 vetted members operating in 75 countries), as well as part of the Artist Communities program.
Residency dates can be anytime subject to availability
The Artist Residency of La Maison de Beaumont was created with the goal of offering a retreat for musicians, scholars, writers and painters, who seek a quiet place to work undisturbed on their art. The scenery and beauty of the region, coupled with the history and comfort of the house, provides an ideal setting to focus on creative work.
Deadline: Ongoing
La Maison de Beaumont offers an Artist Residency in Provence & Luberon as part of the prestigious ResArtis network (a worldwide network of 550 vetted members operating in 75 countries), as well as part of the Artist Communities program.
Residency dates can be anytime subject to availability
The Artist Residency of La Maison de Beaumont was created with the goal of offering a retreat for musicians, scholars, writers and painters, who seek a quiet place to work undisturbed on their art. The scenery and beauty of the region, coupled with the history and comfort of the house, provides an ideal setting to focus on creative work.
The program provides :
• Up to two months in residence at La Maison de Beaumont
• A fully equipped private apartment with kitchen & bath
• A common creative room for rehearsals, exhibits or other artistic endeavors
• Networking with other cultural associations of Luberon
Entry Fee: $45
Deadline: Ongoing
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.