Fully Funded Residencies
Residencies that cover your costs and pay a stipend, rather than charging you for the studio. Travel, accommodation and materials included.
59 open listings · Updated 26 October 2026
What fully funded actually covers
Fully funded is used loosely, and the differences matter. At its strongest it means travel, accommodation, studio, materials and a stipend. You arrive, make work, and leave without having paid. More often it means some of those: accommodation and studio covered, travel at your own cost, no stipend.
Read the listing for the four separate questions: is travel covered, is accommodation covered, are materials covered, and is there money for you. A programme that covers accommodation and calls itself funded is not lying, but it is a different proposition from one that pays you to be there.
Why funded residencies are harder to get
Funded places attract far more applications than self-funded ones, often by an order of magnitude, so selection is correspondingly tighter. The panel is choosing a small number of people to spend real money on, and they read proposals for whether the time will produce something that could not have happened elsewhere.
That makes specificity decisive. A proposal that needs this place, its facilities, its collection, its community, its landscape, is far stronger than one describing work you could make at home. Funded programmes are buying an outcome, and the proposal is where you show them one.
Checking that funded means funded
Ask what the stipend is in figures, whether travel is reimbursed or paid up front, and whether there are costs the listing does not mention, visa fees, insurance, materials beyond a basic allowance, a contribution to a final exhibition. Reputable programmes answer these plainly.
Be wary where funding is described without numbers, or where a 'funded' place carries a substantial application fee. Published lists of past residents are the simplest check: an organisation that names who it has hosted, and what came of it, is telling you how seriously it takes the role.
