Free Jewelry Residencies
17 residencies
Fully funded jewelry residencies that cover both housing and a stipend. These programs remove financial barriers entirely, letting you focus on your art.
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Appalachian Center for Craft
Smithville, United States
The Appalachian Center for Craft's Artist in Residence (AIR) program provides a creative, residential environment for emerging professional artists to work in an immersive studio setting while contributing to the educational mission of the institution. The program offers one-year appointments (renewable for an additional year) across multiple studio disciplines including clay, fibers, glass, metals, wood, and exhibitions, with residents providing instructional support and producing significant bodies of studio work.

Artists in Residence
West Palm Beach, United States
West Palm Beach artist-in-residence programs include the Norton Museum’s invitation-only visual arts residency and the Armory Art Center’s teaching residency with studio space, exhibit opportunities, and support for emerging artists.

Atelier Mondial
Basel, Switzerland
Atelier Mondial is an international and interdisciplinary artist residency program in Basel, Switzerland, hosting guest artists from partner institutions worldwide in its seven studios for stays typically lasting three to six months. It provides live-in studios, stipends for living expenses, and opportunities for open studios and exhibitions at Salon Mondial. The program also offers grants to regional artists from Basel, South Baden, and Alsace for residencies abroad in fields like visual arts, literature, fashion & textiles, dance & performing arts, and curation.

Casa Taller El Boga Mompox
Mompox, Colombia
Cultural foundation and artist residency in a restored colonial house, offering accommodation, community exchange, workshops, and access to shared creative spaces.

Culture Moves Europe Residency
O Savinao, Spain
Culture Moves Europe residency support in Spain for legal entities hosting artists and cultural professionals; projects can include accommodation, workspaces, mentoring, and cross-border collaboration.

EMMA
Pforzheim, Germany
Creative center for freelancers, start-ups, agencies, and young companies with workshops, coworking, studios, offices, events, and exhibitions.

Françoise van den Bosch Foundation
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Françoise van den Bosch Foundation offers an artist-in-residence program for international jewellery artists at Studio Rian de Jong in Amsterdam, providing a live/work studio apartment/workshop for three months (March 1 to May 31) and a €500 materials grant. Residents engage with Amsterdam's vibrant jewellery community, present work in a street vitrine, and document their experience via blog, Instagram, or report. The program, running since , selects one artist annually based on a work plan emphasizing international exchange.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston, United States
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) Artist Residency Program offers three-to-twelve month residencies (with preference for six- and nine-month terms) to craft artists working in media such as wood, glass, metal, fiber, clay, and interdisciplinary craft with photography. Selected artists gain 24/7 access to a 200-square-foot studio, a $1,000 monthly stipend including housing/materials allowance, professional development, public interaction opportunities, and an artist talk. The public-facing program requires studio work during public hours and open studios for visitor engagement.

Institut français Cité Arts Residency
Paris, France
Organizer Information This programme is jointly run by the Institut français and the Cité internationale des arts. The Institut français supports French culture internationally, helping to promote the French language, the circulation of works and ideas, and the mobility of artists throughout the world, while working to promote cultural diversity and contribute to the hosting

LIBITUM
Brussels, Belgium
A Belgian non-profit residency network supporting research, experimentation, and artistic creation across disciplines, including writing residencies in Brussels.
Martin Roth Initiative Temporary relocation for Artists and cultural actors at risk
Berlin, Germany
Organizer Information The Martin Roth-Initiative is a joint project of ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and the Goethe-Institut, founded in response to the global shrinking of civic spaces. It was established in in response to the global decline in pre-political freedoms, named after Martin Roth, the museum director and cultural scientist who served as
Platform Dalí
Barcelona, Spain
Organizer Information Platform Dalí is a new international art-and-science programme launched by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, based in Barcelona and anchored in the city's scientific ecosystem, established through collaborations with five leading science centers: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), the Institute for High

Prairie Residency
Vicksburg, United States
Organizer Information Prairie is an artist‑centered residency program based in rural Advance, North Carolina (USA), designed to support creative development through focused, uninterrupted studio time close to nature. Set on one acre of land and housed within a historic 1870 country home surrounded by oak trees, Prairie fosters a slow, contemplative environment that encourages sustained

Residency Skagen AiR - (Denmark)
Skagen, Denmark
Organizer Information: Skagen’s Museum focuses on the Scandinavian artists’ colony, the Skagen painters, active since the late 19th century. Skagen AiR revitalizes the historical studios located in the museum's beautiful gardens, aiming to build new relations between resident artists and the cultural history, community, and people of Skagen. Title & Description: Applications are open for

Sacatar Foundation
Itaparica, Brazil
Instituto Sacatar is the longest continuously-operating artist residency in Brazil, founded in 2001 on the island of Itaparica across the bay from Salvador, Bahia. The residency provides fully-funded fellowships to artists of all disciplines from around the world, hosting up to eight artists at a time across five annual sessions. Since its inception, Sacatar has awarded residencies to over 550 artists from more than 75 countries.

Volland Residency
Alma, United States
A rural residency offering quiet time, living and studio space, and exchange for creatives across many disciplines in Kansas’s Flint Hills.

White Buffalo Land Trust's Artist in Residence
Lompoc, United States
Artists live and work at Jalama Canyon Ranch, creating place-based work that engages ecology, regenerative agriculture, and community through educational and participatory offerings.
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Yes. Fully funded residencies provide both accommodation and a stipend at no cost to the artist. These programs are typically supported by government arts funding, private foundations, or institutional endowments.
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