Arts and Humanities Funding: Artist Residencies
Directories
From Res Artis: "Residency centres exist to invite artists, academicians, curators, and all manner of creative people for a time and space away from their usual environment. They provide a time of reflection, research, presentation and/or production. They also allow individuals to explore his/her practice within another community; meeting new people, using new materials, experiencing life in a new location."
- Alliance of Artists Communities"Your one-stop guide to residencies for visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, scholars, filmmakers, community artists, architects, and more - around the world and in your backyard."
- Res Artis: Worldwide Network of Artist ResidenciesAn association of over 400 arts centers, organisations, and individuals in over 70 countries.
- Trans ArtistsCombines and shares expertise and offers tools and services on artist-in-residence programs and related issues.
Art Institutes and Artist Colonies
A small sampling of non-profit organizations that support artist residencies. Use the directories at left for complete lists.
- The Getty Research Institute Scholars ProgramThe Research Institute welcomes scholars, artists, and other cultural figures from around the world to work in residence at the Institute on projects that bear upon its annual research theme.
- Sundance Institute: Artist ProgramsScreenwriters, directors, documentarians, producers, composers, and theatre artists.
- The Banff CentreAudio, Dance, Digital Film, Indigenous Arts, Interactive Media, Literary Arts, Music, Opera, Theatre, Visual Arts.
- The MacDowell ColonyThe sole criterion for acceptance to The MacDowell Colony is artistic excellence, and encourages applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics.
