Colonies Retreats
Colonies provide a place for writers to live and work for a period of time at little or no cost.
Two-week to one-month residencies for writers, visual artists, and composers. Shorter residencies of one day to one week or more available throughout the year on an informal basis.
http://www.astudiointhewoods.org/residency.htm
Ten-week residencies available for individuals working on innovative projects.
http://www.northwood.edu/abd
Two-week to one-month residencies available from May through October for artists, writers, and scholars from the United States and abroad.
http://www.andersoncenter.org/residency_program.htm
Two-week to two-month residencies available year-round for writers and visual artists.
http://www.artcroft.org/eligibility.html
One-month residencies available for writers and performing and visual artists.
http://www.as220.org/as220/weblog/access/artistsinresidence.html?seemore=y
Six- to twelve-month residencies available for emerging poets or literary scholars.
http://www.berkshiretaconic.org
One-month residencies during summer months for writers, artists, and musicians.
http://www.bluemountaincenter.org
Nine-month residencies available for to NY poets and fiction writers under 30.
http://www.bronxarts.org
One-month residencies during summer months for writers, visual artists and composers.
http://www.woodstockguild.org
http://www.calderaarts.org
Casa Libre en la Solana is a writer’s oasis in the Tucson desert. The residency inn and resource center for professional and novice writers offers five fully furnished and wi-fi outfitted writing suites, an onsite eclectic reference library, pool/spa and courtyards in Mexican compound setting in the buzzing downtown arts district. Casa awards qualified writers 10 to 24 day Self-directed Residencies in one of their unique suites. Travel and food not included in residency. Complete details and residency applications are available online; call (520) 325-9145 or email casakeepers@casalibre.org
http://www.casalibre.org
Residencies available January through June and August through December for writers, composers, choreographers, and visual artists.
http://www.centrum.org/index.php?page=Residencies
http://www.lanesboroarts.org/cac-artist-in-residence.html
Four- to five-week residencies available late-March through mid-November for writers, painters, sculptors, composers, choreographers, photographers, performance artists, and film/video makers.
http://www.djerassi.org/residencies.html
http://www.easternfrontier.com/art_about.html
One-month residencies at “The Barn” during summer and fall months for writers, painters, sculptors, and composers.
http://www.albeefoundation.org/
One- to two-week residencies available year-round for writers, and visual and performance artists.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/air.html
Seven-month residency available October through April for writers and visual artists.
http://www.fawc.org/
http://www.for-site.org/about/#mission
Residencies in Provincetown. Application by nomination only.
http://www.gaeafoundation.org
One- to two-week residencies available year-round for writers, artists, and musicians.
http://www.newlightstudios.com/guest_house.php
One- to six-week residencies available June through September for writers, painters, and sculptors.
http://www.hallfarm.org/residencies/residencies.html
Two-week to two-month residencies available February through mid-December for writers, visual and performance artists, composers, and dancers.
http://www.hambidge.org/residency/index.shtml
Six-week to three-month residencies available March through November for writers, visual and performance artists, film/video makers, dancers, and musicians.
http://www.headlands.org
Two-week to two-month residencies available February through November for women writers.
http://www.hedgebrook.org
Two- to three-month residencies available April through October for writers, painters, sculptors, composers, and photographers.
Residencies available year-round by invitation only for writers, visual artists, and composers.
http://www.hermitage-fl.org/forartists.htm
One-week to one-month residencies for writers, visual and performance artists and media artists.
http://www.kfw.org/hophouse.html
Four-week residencies for visual (including digital) artists, music composers, environmental artists, landscape and garden designers, creative writers and architects available May through November 2008. There is a $20 application processing fee, and artists are responsible for their own transportation to and from the area, as well as their own food and work materials. Work samples will be evaluated through a competitive, juried process. Visit website for more details
http://www.i-park.org
One-year residencies available for artists in all disciplines.
http://www.isgm.org
One-month residencies available in January, April, and November
http://www.islandinstitutealaska.org
http://www.kerouacproject.org
One-month residencies available year-round for visual artists and writers.
http://www.jentelarts.org
38 two-week to two-month residencies given year round for writers, visual artists and composers. Free lodging, studio space and $100/week stipend.
http://www.khncenterforthearts.org/
Two-week to two-month residencies for fiction writers, poets, translators, playwrights, screenwriters, and nonfiction writers
http://www.artomi.org/ao/
Up to two-month residencies available year-round for writers, composers, photographers, visual artists and film/video makers.
http://www.macdowellcolony.org
One-week to three-month residencies available year-round for writers, dancers, musicians, visual and performance artists, and composers.
http://www.maryandersoncenter.org/
Two-week to one-month residencies available April through mid-November for writers.
http://www.commoncounsel.org/pages/mesa.html
One-month residencies
http://www.millaycolony.org
Residencies available year-round for writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, photographers, and performance artists.
http://www.nisda.org/air.htm
http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/cultural.html#platte
Two-week to two-month residencies available from January through April and June through mid-December.
http://www.ragdale.org
http://www.red-cinder.com/artistscolony1.html
http://www.artistcommunities.org/macnamara.html
Summer residencies for New York artists
http://www.saltonstall.org
http://www.sfai.org/applications.html
One-month residency available in January for writers, visual artists, and musicians.
http://www.theseasideinstitute.org/net/content/item.aspx?s=17583.0.79.7801
Four-month residencies available October through May for writers, dancers, visual artists, and musicians.
http://www.sitkacenter.org
One-week to one-month residencies available year-round for women writers.
http://www.soapstone.org
http://lermantrust.org/gardens.html
Six-week residencies available March through July for writers.
http://www.sou.edu/ecp/arts/index.html
One-year residencies for artists working in collaboration.
http://www.cmu.edu/studio
Two-week to two-month residencies available year-round for writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, film/video makers, composers, and printmakers.
http://www.ucrossfoundation.org
One- to three-month residencies available by invitation
http://www.villamontalvo.org
Two-week to two-month residencies available for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance artists, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, and composers
http://www.vcca.com/index.html
Up to two-week residencies available year-round for North Carolina writers.
http://www.weymouthcenter.org
One-month residencies available for writers.
http://www.espyfoundation.org
Two-week to six-month residencies for writers interested in sustainable systems and our place in the natural world
http://www.wormfarminstitute.org/residencies.html
Two-week to three-month residencies for writers and composers.
http://www.writerscolony.org/
MFA APPLICANTS are invited to The Writing Retreat . . . where MFA grads from the top programs in America live free and write, and where a former Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, the author of five novels, three memoirs and an award winning movie, works with MFA APPLICANTS on their admission manuscripts. Contact Hancockpt@aol.com for more info.
http://thewritingretreat.com/
Two-week to two-month residencies available year-round for writers, dancers, choreographers, visual and performance artists, musicians, composers, painters, photographers, and sculptors.
http://www.yaddo.org
Retreats provide a place for writers to live and work for a period of time for a fee
(financial aid often available)
Provides subsidized residential studio space for individual artists for one-year renewable terms.
http://www.18thstreet.org/programs_res.htm
Three-week residencies available for writers, composers, and performing and visual artists to work with a Master Artist in their field.
http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/artresprog/resschedule/res_sched.htm
http://www.kingdomfallsarts.org/acresidency.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~campgina/id17.html
Residencies available year-round for writers and artists.
Residencies available in an 1800s farmhouse on 25 rolling acres.
http://www.compostartcenter.com
Two- to six-week residencies available year-round for writers, musicians, and visual artists.
http://www.ez2.net/dorland/
Residencies available October through May for writers, composers, and artists.
http://dorsettheatrefestival.com/html/colony.html
http://www.hillhousewriters.com
http://www.theintersection.org/program_residencies.php
Two-week to three-month residencies available year-round for writers and visual and performance artists.
http://www.kalani.com/reside/artist.htm
One-day to one-month residencies available
http://www.lillianesmith.org/public_html/LES/Retreat.html
http://www.magicpondmaine.com
One-month to one-year residencies available year-round to artists of all disciplines.
http://www.montanarefuge.org
http://www.myretreat.net
http://www.naturalsouladventures.com/pages/2/index.htm
Two-week to one-month residencies available January through May and September through December for writers, artists, and musicians.
http://kulcher.org/html/artsretreat.html
Residencies available year-round for artists in all disciplines.
http://www.oceanhaven.com
Residencies available year-round for writers and artists.
http://www.oregonwriterscolony.org/
http://www.osageac.org/
http://www.peaceabbey.org
http://www.platteforum.org/residencies.htm
http://www.rockledgestudios.com/
http://www.rockmirth.com
One-week residencies available year-round (except December)
http://www.expressionretreats.com
Residencies available along the banks of the Toccoa River in the Appalachian Mtns.
http://www.sustainable-arts.org/
Annual writers' residential retreat held every year in August. Features a small group learning environment as well as one-on-one reflections. The 2006 dates are August 6-12.
http://hsc.unm.edu/cme
http://thompsonpeakretreat.com/
http://members.aol.com/gullgeeco/WADASTICK.html
Residencies available April to December.
http://www.wellspringhouse.net/home.htm
Annual, one-week retreat followed by one-week conference held in July
http://www.wildacres.com/
http://www.katemillett.com/pages/1/index.htm
Seven- to ten-day residencies available year-round
http://www.wab.org
Weekly residencies available year-round for writers, editors, and publishers.
http://www.writersretreat.com/Default.htm
Four-week to three-month residencies available year-round for writers and visual artists.
http://www.vermontstudiocenter.com
Weekend workshops and one-week to one-month residencies in summer and winter.
http://www.mro.org
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