Free Mixed Media Residencies

Art on the Block NYC

New York, United States

Art on the Block NYC offers a vibrant short-term residency program, transforming a New York City storefront into a dynamic space where art and community engagement intersect. This residency provides artists the opportunity to turn the space into both a working studio and a public gallery. Throughout their five-week stay, artists are expected to be on-site five days a week, facilitating various interactive programs for youth, families, and adults. The residency aims to support and advocate for artists while fostering community collaboration and hands-on engagement with art. Artists receive a stipend of $6000 for their participation, and have the opportunity to sell their artwork under a separate sales contract. This residency is only open to NYC artists and housing is not provided.

Dar Meso

Tunis, Tunisia

Dar Meso is an artist residency located in the heart of the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia, offering a unique environment that fosters creativity and cultural exchange. The residency is on an ongoing open call and hosts a variety of programs, including Writing Residencies and Babbasawt Sound Lab, which cater to different artistic disciplines such as writing, music, and sound art. The residency provides private workspaces, communal areas, and access to specialized workshops like ceramics and sound labs. Dar Meso emphasizes collaboration, intercultural exchange, and the development of innovative artistic projects. The residency helps artists get fundings but is generally working with artists contributions. Dar Meso supports artists by offering a tranquil space to focus on their work while encouraging cultural interaction within a vibrant, historic setting.

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (HWF)

Taos, United States

The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (HWF) is a private, non-profit organization that has been supporting the arts since 1954. Located on a fifteen-acre campus in Taos, New Mexico, HWF offers one of the oldest artist residency programs in the USA. The Foundation provides three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to visual artists, literary artists, and music composers from around the world. The campus consists of eleven fully furnished casitas, each tailored to the specific needs of different types of artists. The Foundation’s mission is to support the artist and the creative process, offering a peaceful setting for artists to pursue their work without imposed expectations or quotas. Applications are reviewed by a committee of professionals in various artistic disciplines, ensuring a diverse and enriching residency experience.

Art Like Salt

Jeungdo, Shinan, South Jeolla Province, South Korea

Open Call for Residency Artists Taepyung Salt Farm X Boggle Mansion seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency program in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any

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.

Beppu Project

Beppu City, Japan

Beppu Project is a non-profit art organization founded in April that operates artist residency programs in Beppu City, a renowned hot spring area in southern Japan. The organization hosts the KASHIMA Artist in Residence program (since ) and short-term residencies at Kiyoshima Apartment, welcoming artists across multiple disciplines to create work while engaging with the local community.

Bernheim Artist in Residence

Clermont, United States

The Bernheim Artist in Residence Program, established in 1980 at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, Kentucky, annually selects up to four visual and mixed media artists to live and create site-specific works inspired by the natural environment. Artists receive a $2,500 stipend, housing in a furnished one-room cabin, and access to a lakeside studio, with one slot dedicated to regional artists from Kentucky or nearby Indiana counties and another to those addressing environmental issues like climate change and biodiversity loss. Residents must produce at least one artwork for Bernheim and participate in a public engagement program.

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.

Fonderie Darling is a visual arts center in Montreal's Old Montreal that offers international artist residencies through its Open Access program, welcoming contemporary artists and curators of all nationalities for tailor-made residencies lasting one to six months in a 19th-century industrial complex. The residency includes access to live-in studios, common areas, technical workshops, and support for artistic development, networking, and promotion.

Echo Artist Residency

Cleveland, United States

Echo Artist Residency by SPACES invites 2 visual artists quarterly (1 local from NE Ohio, 1 external) for 4-6 week stays to create site-specific projects, culminating in exhibitions. Offers honorarium, production budget, on-site lodging, facilities, and curatorial support.

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

K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence

Košice, Slovakia

International artist residency in Košice for artists from Slovakia and abroad, offering space to develop projects and connect with the local art scene.

Kutztown University Artist in Residence

Kutztown, United States

The Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania offers a 4-week in-person artist residency culminating in a site-specific immersive gallery installation piece. The residency provides artists, craftspeople, and designers with opportunities to dive deeply into their artistic research and creative endeavors while collaborating with students and the university community.

LIBITUM

Brussels, Belgium

A Belgian non-profit residency network supporting research, experimentation, and artistic creation across disciplines, including writing residencies in Brussels.

Marble House Project

Dorset, United States

Marble House Project is an expansive, multi-disciplinary artist residency program situated in Dorset, Vermont. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration, sustainability, and community engagement by offering artists from a wide array of disciplines a place to live and work harmoniously. Focusing on conservation and organic food production, it invites artists to integrate with the natural surroundings and local community, aiming to foster both individual artistic growth and communal enrichment. With sessions running from mid-April through October, the program curates a diverse mix of approximately 60 artists annually, both from the United States and abroad, across all creative fields including visual arts, writing, choreography, music composition, performance, and culinary arts.

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

McKinney International Art and Design Residency

Bloomington, United States

The McKinney International Art and Design Residency, hosted by the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington, offers international artists and designers a 4–6-week stay to develop their practice using university facilities, collections, and research centers. Selected residents participate in the McKinney Visiting Artist Lecture Series, studio visits, open studios, and a workshop, with studio space, lodging, an $8,000 USD fellowship, health insurance, and up to $500 in supplies provided.

Moab Arts Reuse Residency

Moab, United States

4-6 week residency challenging waste culture via art, community, sustainability. Offers studio, housing, stipend, waste materials access, public engagement. Paused for .

Nomad Art Prize International

Lisbon, Portugal

Organizer Information Founded on the core belief that art is by its very nature fluid and unbound, the Nomad Art Prize is a prestigious international award celebrating contemporary visual arts and cross-border intercultural dialogues. Operating via a shifting geographic model, each edition of the prize migrates to a different major cultural city—transforming local landscapes into

Each year NXTHVN welcomes up to seven artists and two curators to participate in its paid 10-month intensive Fellowship Program. Each Fellow will receive studio or office space, a stipend, and subsidized housing. Selected from an international pool of applicants, Fellows relocate to New Haven to participate in NXTHVN’s mentorship-driven curriculum which includes professional development

Olmsted County

Rochester, United States

Olmsted County's Transforming Trash Artist-in-Residence program invites artists to create public artworks using at least 90% reclaimed materials from the County Recycling Center and Landfill in Rochester, MN. Two artists are selected for one-month residencies in , receiving a $2,500 stipend, lodging, studio space, tools, and materials, while leading community engagement activities to promote sustainability and creative reuse.

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

Power Institute Paris Art

Paris, France

Organizer Information The Power Institute is a long-established Australian research and cultural institution affiliated with the University of Sydney. For more than fifty years, it has supported artists, curators, and researchers through international residency and fellowship programs, with a strong focus on facilitating research-based artistic practice in global cultural centers. One of its most significant

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

Printmaking Residency Session -

Connecticut, United States

Offers one- to two-week residencies for artists to live and work in a well-equipped printmaking studio with onsite housing and support for traditional and innovative printmaking.

Provincetown Community Compact

Provincetown, United States

The Provincetown Community Compact offers Dune Shack Residencies in historic shacks located in the Cape Cod National Seashore, providing stays for visual artists, writers, and the general public from April through November. It includes three 3-week juried residencies for visual artists (one for an emerging artist of color with a $500 fellowship), two 1-week funded writer residencies selected by lottery, and community residencies by lottery. Founded in 1993 as a non-profit, the program supports artists and community vitality in Provincetown.

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

Seven Below Arts Initiative

Burlington, United States

The Seven Below Arts Initiative is a residency program established in in partnership with Burlington City Arts, offering visual artists quiet, inspiring environments for individual and collaborative work in a renovated 200-year-old barn situated on 65 acres outside Burlington. Three artists at a time participate in eight-week sessions (April-May, June-July, or August-September) with private work spaces, living accommodations, and a $2,000 stipend, designed to support artists at any career stage working in virtually any visual arts genre.

Squeaky Wheel

Buffalo, United States

Squeaky Wheel's Workspace Residency supports artists and researchers working on media arts projects, offering short-term stays open to applicants from Buffalo and across the United States for resources, time, and support on ongoing or new work. Residents receive tailored access to facilities and equipment at Squeaky Wheel and partners like Buffalo Game Space, The Foundry, Mirabo Press, and Silo City, plus participate in public events such as artist talks and workshops. Typical durations are two weeks in spring and three weeks in summer, with stipends, housing for non-locals, and additional support provided.

St. Elmo Arts Residency

Austin, United States

The St. Elmo Arts Residency, run by the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, offers one fellowship each academic year to a recent MFA graduate specializing in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, or multimedia. Residents receive a private 1800-square-foot studio, furnished house, $40,000 stipend, health insurance benefits, part-time teaching experience, and a solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center in Austin's St. Elmo district. The program spans approximately 9½ months from early August to late May.

Thami Mnyele Foundation

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Thami Mnyele Foundation, established in 1990, runs a three-month artists-in-residence program in Amsterdam for artists from Africa and the diaspora, focusing on contemporary visual arts including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, film, audio, and multimedia to promote cultural exchange with the Netherlands. Residents receive free housing and studio space in a historic school building, a monthly stipend of around 900 euros for living and materials, travel reimbursement, insurance, and opportunities for networking. A shorter residency option exists for invited artists needing temporary accommodation without stipend or travel support.

The Griffis Art Center

New London, United States

The Griffis Art Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit visual arts organization founded in 1989 that hosts international artists for three-month residency periods twice a year. The program provides artists with private live/work studios in a quiet residential neighborhood where they can create and interact with the community, with a specific program (Maison des Artistes) dedicated to non-US citizens.

TYPA Artist in Residence

Tartu, Estonia

TYPA Artist in Residence is a dynamic residency program founded in at the TYPA Paper and Print Centre in Tartu, Estonia, welcoming artists from Nordic and Baltic countries as well as international artists. The program offers 3-month residencies with access to printmaking and paper arts facilities, accommodation, workspace, and financial support, while also accepting artists working in diverse mediums including new media, sculpture, sound, and painting.

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.

Weir Farm Artist-In-Residence

Wilton, United States

Premier NPS artist residency program continuing 140-year tradition at Weir Farm. Hosts 6-7 established and emerging visual artists annually for month-long residencies emphasizing contemporary and experimental art.

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.