RESIDENCIES

01/02/202501/03/2025 admin

Focus on Summer Residencies + Workshops

Fine Arts Work Center faculty members (left to right) Donika Kelly, Melissa Febos, and Cleyvis Natera. Courtesy of FAWC.

At their core, residencies present an extraordinary opportunity for study, self-reflection and, in many cases, travel. Early winter is a time for dreaming big and planning ahead. The beauty of a residency is, they come in all shapes and sizes. You may wish to remain in your own state yet feel as if you’re a thousand miles away. Focused on your work and study, this time is a luxury.

Residencies are the ultimate gift to one’s craft and one’s psyche. Paint, write, compose, sculpt, dance, weave, weld, print… Explore a new medium or concentrate on your chosen field. The opportunities that follow will be catalysts for you in 2025.

California

Dorland Mountain Arts

Dorland Mountain Arts is located in the mountains near wine country on 300 acres of protected land overlooking the Temecula Valley. Within the natural landscape, participants in the Dorland Arts residency programs are never short of inspiration from the valleys, mountains, and tree-rich areas. The grounds feature a reflecting pond, hiking trails and a small lake. The program welcomes visual artists, writers, musicians, and composers to stay in private cottages equipped with personal studios and living facilities. There is also a Community Arts Center offering additional working space, including a library, a meeting room and a studio room. The program allows for residencies based on the applicant’s schedule, with residencies lasting as short as one week or as long as two months. Residencies are reviewed in order of receipt and are accepted on a rolling basis depending on availability. The review process takes roughly one to two weeks from the receipt of all application materials.

P.O. Box 6
36701 Hwy 79 S, Temecula, CA 92592
(951) 302-3827
info@dorlandartscolony.org
dorlandartscolony.org

Maine

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ two-week Open Studio Residency will run from September 1 to 12, 2025. The residency is open to emerging and established artists aged 21 and older. The application process begins in March. Residents are chosen through a competitive jury and selection process following application. The Open Studio Residency supports approximately fifty artists and provides free tuition, room and board to those selected. The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts campus sits in 40 acres of wooded area and overlooks Jericho Bay. Residents will have access to all six of Haystack’s studios for ceramics, fiber arts, graphics, iron, jewelry and wood to develop ideas and experiment in these mediums. Artists can choose to work in one studio or move between the six. The Haystack Fab Lab digital fabrication studio will also be available for use. All studios are staffed with technicians who are available to assist with projects.

P.O. Box 518
Deer Isle, ME 04627
(207) 348-2306
registrar@haystack-mtn.org
haystack-mtn.org

Massachusetts

Montserrat College of Art

Located on the North Shore, Montserrat College of Art offers a variety of credit and non-credit summer programs for many ages and levels. Monserrat offers two Art Educator Summer Institutes, one on-campus in Beverly, the other a travel course in Niigata and Tokyo, Japan. Summer Institute Beverly runs from June 22 to 28, while Summer Institute Japan runs from June 18 to July 4, with dates subject to change based on flight availability. The Youth S.T.E.A.M. Arts Academy offers week-long classes for ages eight to eleven (minors) and twelve to fifteen (majors). Attendees can choose full-day attendance or morning, mid-day or afternoon classes. The Pre-College Program is a residential experience from July 13 to August 2 for rising juniors and seniors in high school in which they can develop their art school portfolios and experience life as an art student. This program has rolling admissions as long as space remains available and offers three college credits for successful completion.

Beverly, MA
(978) 921-4242 x1153
steam@montserrat.edu
admissions@monterrat.edu

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
& Edgewood Farm

Truro Center for the Arts offers year-round arts workshops, lectures, classes, artist residencies, events and much more. Its faculty consists of renowned artists in their fields and its range of workshops includes everything from painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and ceramics to culinary and land art. The Edgewood Farm artist residency includes a private bedroom in a shared antique farmhouse. Residencies run for lengths of two weeks or one to three months. Materials are the responsibility of the artist, yet studios for a wide variety of mediums are available across both campuses. These residencies are available to writers, painters, printmakers, sculptors, musicians, ceramicists, dancers and farmers. The 2025 residency deadline is January 15, 2025 for sessions in March, April and May and August 15 for sessions in October, November and December. The Center also offers a three-month ceramics residency at the Castle Hill campus from January to March. The deadline for this is early November 2025.

PO Box 756
Truro, MA 02666
(508) 349-7511
info@castlehill.org
castlehill.org

Fine Arts Work Center

Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown offers sixty-five week-long creative writing and visual arts workshops. There’s something for everyone, whether you’re new to workshops or a seasoned artist. The Summer Workshop Program is a chance to develop your skills at historic FAWC and build meaningful relationships with fellow creators and dedicated, experienced instructors. Registration is open for the Summer Project Residency, a two-week-long self-directed residency in June open to the public. In addition, FAWC offers seven-month residencies to twenty emerging visual artists, fiction writers and poets annually through its fellowship program. Fellows receive housing, a studio (for visual artists) and a monthly stipend. These juried residencies run from October through April. The 2025 to 2026 visual arts fellowship application deadline is February 3, 2025.

Provincetown, MA 02657
(508) 487-9960
fawc.org

New York

Millay Arts

Millay Arts is one of the longest-running multidisciplinary artist residencies in the country. More than 3,000 poets, writers, composers, visual and performance artists have been welcomed to Steepletop, the historic estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, through residency programs. Nestled in the Hudson Valley, near the Berkshires, the estate boasts idyllic scenery and proximity to a lively arts and culture community. The Steepletop Residency is a partially subsidized program with a rolling deadline. The Core Residency is open from March to November with deadlines on March 1 for stays from August to November, as well as for the collective residency occurring in the first week of December, and October 1 for stays from March to July. The Core Residency is fully subsidized and judged by blind jury. Both the Core and Steepletop residencies feature chef-prepared communal suppers, groceries and private bedrooms and studios. From mid-December through March, Millay Arts hosts the Wintertide Rustic Retreat, with stays ranging from a long weekend to a month, for a low fee.