Open AIR is a place-based residency that connects artists from across disciplines with unique sites in Montana. Selected artists will have the opportunity to create at a unique site for a multi-week residency. During their residency, artists can connect with the individuals stewarding that site and develop unique work in relation to the place they are in residence. (Artists apply for what site they would like to be considered for.)

  
The Open AIR Residency is a wonderful opportunity for artists to take critical time and space to develop their practice in a supported environment. Artists-in-Residence (AIRs) will have opportunities to engage in professional development, including exhibitions and public engagement. AIRs will additionally have the opportunity to learn from and develop connections with other artists, meet new community members, and learn about unique aspects of the history, ecology, and culture of this region.

  
**Artists are expected to…**

* Participate in weekly check-ins during their residency
* Participate in community engagement, such as studio visits, artist talks, performances, workshops, etc. (This can vary per site and per artist. We work together with you to explore the best fit for the program as well as your practice and interests.)
* Provide feedback about your experience.
* Be flexible and communicative.
* Contribute digital content/artwork to WMCI/Open AIR’s collection.

  
**Locations:**

**SUMMER SESSION 2025:** 

Garden City Harvest, Home ReSource, Missoula Butterfly House & Insectarium, Moon-Randolph Homestead, Rocky Mountain Garden, Selway Bitterroot Wilderness

  
**FALL SESSION 2025:** 

Butte, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Hamilton

  
**SPRING SESSION 2026:**

Home ReSource, Missoula Public Library, Travelers’ Rest State Park

* Access to a studio space in a unique location
* Housing to all artists coming from outside of the town of residency
* Community engagement and professional development opportunities where artists can present/share about their work
* Listing on our website and promotion on our media and communications channels.
* A chance to connect with members of the community
* Modest stipends for every artist. $35/day for every day of the residency.

  

Artist-in-Residence Opportunities 2025

The SFCC Fine Art Gallery is honored to introduce the **sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Artist-in-Residence Program** with the opening of sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Fine and Applied Art Building 32 on the campus of Spokane Falls Community College. The fully funded annual three-month residency will provide state of the art studio space within the newly constructed sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Fine and Applied Arts building to an Indigenous artist for the duration of spring quarter April 1-June 18, 2025\. The selected artist will explore creative expression through educational and professional development opportunities that connect them with students and the wider Spokane community. Funded in part with generous support from Spokane Arts SAGA Grant, Community Colleges of Spokane, and private donors, the residency is integral to the mission of the SFCC Fine Art gallery.

  
As a college which is situated on the traditional and sacred lands of the Spokane Tribe and provides services in a region that includes the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Kalispel Tribe and Nez Perce Tribe, we will prioritize those applicants and the tribes of Washington state as well as the Schistu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Indians). The three-month residency includes a $2,500.00 monthly stipend, as well as off-campus housing, studio space, and travel reimbursement to and from Spokane, WA. The residency provides time for the artist to develop artwork, explore new ideas, and to strengthen existing talents. Opportunities for educational and professional development, connections with students and Spokane community will be available for the artist to explore.

  
Residency Term: April 1-June 18, 2025
  
  

**Participants Experience:** 

* The artist-in-residence will decide what kind of art they want to make and exhibit, what kind of professional development they will benefit from, and what they would like their interaction with the community to look like.
* Three months access to **studio space** within sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Fine and Applied Arts Building, with access to tools and equipment from the art disciplines taught at SFCC including ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, and metalsmithing.
* **Access to instruction in fine art classrooms**: opportunities to observe regularly scheduled classroom lectures, demonstrations, and critiques performed by fine art faculty.
* **Professional development opportunities** available to the artist should they choose to incorporate them as part of their residency experience include engagement with students and the community of Spokane through artist facilitated open studio hours, artist lead technical demonstrations, artist talk or lecture, and mentoring through art critique participation. Apprenticeship available from the Gallery Program Director in which the artist would receive guidance in art exhibition, curatorial processes, and technical demonstrations relating to art installation processes.
* **Connection** to a community liaison/Tribal representative.
* A **reception**, free and open to the public with food and beverages provided by the SFCC Fine Art Gallery will be scheduled with the resident artist.
* Any **artwork exhibited** by the artist may be available for purchase with all profits directed to the artist. \*SFCC Fine Art Gallery does not take a commission on any sales.
* The resident artist would receive **furnished off-campus lodging** for three months with amenities including kitchen and wifi.
* Three **stipend payments** in the amount of $2,500.00 each to assist with costs of living such as local travel, meals, and art supplies associated with a three-month residency.
* **Reimbursement for travel** to and from Spokane, WA not to exceed $800.00

sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Indigenous Artist-in-Residence Program

Our DIALOG CITY ART FOR PUBLIC RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites professional artists to develop ideas for urban interventions dealing with local or global topics that are of great significance for the respective urban society based on participatory approach. By developing new practices on how to connect digital innovation directly to citizens’ physical participation, the European cooperation project DIALOG CITY aims at contributing to increasing access to culture through a dialogical approach. Co-creation is at the core, encompassing a CITIZEN ARCHIVE PLATFORM for the cultural heritage sector and an innovative design thinking toolkit on FUTURE LITERACY.

  
Annual FUTURE FESTIVALS serve as physical and digital cultural platforms to reach diverse audiences. Participating European cities are Mondoví (IT) in 2023, Graz (AT) in 2024, Aschaffenburg (DE) and Montpellier (FR) in 2025\. The resulting art works of the respective residencies will be shown locally during the FUTURE FESTIVAL as well as online.

  
For the Montpellier residency we aim to question how human identities and bodies are increasingly shaped by the digital data we produce and consume. Being fed by data, our online profiles reflect analog humans and are continuously constructed through micro-targeting and digital profiling, where personal data is used to tailor content and experiences. In return, this blending of the digital and analog worlds creates new opportunities for self-expression and understanding, yet also raises concerns around identities and self-development. With an uncanny feeling, this flow of information can both expand and limit how we perceive the analog world and ourselves, depending on how we engage with it.

ACCOMMODATION - Free accommodation in a single room with a private bathroom and kitchen. It does not provide canteen or food service. Meals are not included.

  
ARTIST FEE - 3.500 € including profound preparation of the residency after the final selection and presentation of the result during the HYBRID FESTIVAL in Montpellier. Per diems are included in the fee.

  
MATERIAL COSTS - Up to 2.000 €, proposal subject to be reviewed by the internal commission according to the value given in terms of scenography and visibility during the Hybrid Festival. This must be specified in the application.

  
TRAVEL COSTS - Will be covered up to the amount of 1.300 €, including return ticket from the origin and local transport in Montpellier. According to the Memorandum of Understanding “Green Deal” we urge project participants to avoid air travel. Train, bus or car are preferred.

Art for Public – Montpellier

The annual FUTURE FESTIVALS serve as both analogue and digital platforms for the EU project DIALOG CITY, aiming to reach a broad and diverse audience. The participating European cities included Mondoví (IT) in 2023 and Graz (AT) in 2024\. The artistic projects developed during these residencies were showcased on-site at the FUTURE FESTIVALS as well as presented online. The next FUTURE FESTIVAL will take place in 2025, organized by Aschaffenburg (DE) and Montpellier (FR). Each city will host its own artist residency.

  
The DIALOG CITY ART FOR PUBLIC RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites artists from all disciplines —ranging from painting, photography, and sculpture to design and architecture— to apply for the residency in Aschaffenburg. The residency takes place under the theme **Society in Transition**. We particularly welcome project proposals that highlight aspects of sustainability and/or cultural heritage. Aschaffenburg is a city with a rich and diverse cultural heritage. For years, conscious sustainability has been a focus of the city, alongside a human-centred and dialogue-oriented digital transformation with DIALOG CITY as the digital strategy of the City of Aschaffenburg.

  
Notably, the city has a diverse and influential history in the paper industry: since the mid-19th century, Aschaffenburg has been known as the “City of Coloured Papers” due to its many paper factories. Entrepreneurs like Alois Dessauer have pioneered efforts that have made paper production inseparable from the economic prosperity, technological change, and ultimately the cultural identity of the city. Curiosity, courage, and inventiveness exemplify an open and inclusive society.

  
The project proposal —whether digital or analogue approach— should address various aspects of this theme in a participatory manner and express it artistically. The selected artist will have the opportunity to work in a public FUTURE PAVILION to realize their creative ideas. There are no limits to imagination!

  
The artist residency begins on May 2, 2025, and ends on July 15, 2025.

  
Final presentation at the FUTURE FESTIVAL in Aschaffenburg: July 3-5, 2025

**ACCOMMODATION**

The selected artist will be accommodated at Cáfe Krèm’s Art Residency. The apartment is in the centre of Aschaffenburg and is just a few minutes’ walk from the City Archives of Aschaffenburg. It features a private bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. Café Krèm serves as a meeting point for people from various backgrounds; it functions as a café, restaurant, gallery, and event venue all in one. The costs for the artist residency will be covered by the City Archives of Aschaffenburg; however, expenses for food and beverages are not included.

  
**ARTIST FEE**

The honorarium for the artist amounts to €3,500, which includes preparation for the residency following selection as well as presentation of results during the FUTURE FESTIVAL in Aschaffenburg. Daily allowances are included within this honorarium.

  
**MATERIAL COSTS**

Material costs up to €2,000 will be reimbursed but must be listed in the application.

  
**TRAVEL COSTS**

Travel expenses will be reimbursed up to a total amount of €1,300 including round-trip flights from/to origin location as well as local transportation tickets within Aschaffenburg. In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding “Green Deal,” we ask artists to refrain from air travel when possible and instead use alternative modes of transport such as train or bus.

Art for Public – Aschaffenburg

**The Volland Foundation is committed to providing time and space for creative practitioners of a wide range of disciplines to gather in a community setting for work, thought and exchange of ideas, and to experience immersion in a unique ecosystem and rural culture.** 

  
In 2025, Volland is again offering residencies across the spring, summer, and fall seasons. The distractions of daily life often drift away at Volland, leaving meaningful time for work, personal discovery and engagement with nature. In addition to time and space, other resident artists, staff, and local residents endow a sense of community to the residency program.

Volland seeks applicants in all stages of their career (emerging, mid-level, professional) and all areas of the globe: local, national and international. The Foundation is committed to equity and welcomes people from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Residents who enjoy solitude, working independently and are self-guided will do well in this residency. Applicants should consider whether this is the right environment for them. Volland is located 8 miles outside of Alma, a town of 900 people. The nearest grocery store is a 30-minute drive.

The Volland Foundation does not require residents to complete or show work during their residency, believing they are best suited to determine how this offering of time and space is used. Volland encourages some degree of public interaction during residencies. Past examples include group open studios or a presentation, trips to the local museum for research or participation in a group activity, and attendance at local gatherings. The foundation asks residents to determine their level of public engagement.

  
**2025 Residencies**

**Spring** 

April 15 – April 29 | 2-week residency | 4 openings

 May 6 – May 20 | 2-week residency | 4 openings

**Summer**

June 10 – July 9 | 4-week residency | 1 opening

June 10 – June 24 | 2-week residency | 1 opening

June 25 – July 9 | 2-week residency | 1 opening

**Fall**

September 16 – October 15 | 4-week residency | 1 opening

September 16 – September 30 | 2-week residency | 1 opening

October 1 – October 15 | 2-week residency | 1 opening

  
**Stipulations** 

* Because of the remote location, it is necessary for all participants to have a car during their residency, plus a valid driver’s license. Residents must arrive and depart on the stated times of the residency.
* Residents are responsible for their own meals. Evening meals are a pleasant time for interaction, and shared meals may be arranged by residents at their discretion.
* Spouses interested in their own residency should apply separately.
* A collaborative team may apply for a residency.
* Family is welcome to visit on the weekends, but must acquire their own accommodations offsite.
* The rural nature of Volland means the Foundation cannot ensure the safety of pets. As a result, we ask they stay home for the duration of your residency.
* Feedback during and after your time at Volland is appreciated so that we may learn from your experience.
* Volland encourages its residents share their experience on their social media channels.
* Information and photos describing residents’ experience at Volland will be shared on our website and on social media.

  

* Housing and studio space
* $500/$1000 stipend for two/four week residents, respectively
* Local library access
* Occasional group meals
* Free admission to Volland Foundation programming during the residency
* Assistance with connections needed to aid a residency project

  

2025 Volland Residency Program

Art on the Block NYC will be holding short-term residencies (3 weeks) in NYC storefronts over the course of 2025\. As the artist-in-residence you will have the opportunity to transform the space into both your studio and a public viewing space. 

  
You will expected to be present full time 5 days each week (hours TBA). During that time you will not only have general visitors coming in to see your artwork and engage with you but will also facilitate scheduled programming for youth, families, and adults. These programs include art-making workshops, artist interviews, and more and will be co-developed by you and Art on the Block NYC team.

Short term artist residency

ADKX will offer four artists a one-month residency, scheduled consecutively in June, July, August, and September. During the residency, the artist will focus on creating their own body of work within the public areas of the museum grounds at least three days per week. The intention of the time during public hours is for artists to spend time pursuing their own creative works, inspired by the natural areas that comprise and surround the museum’s campus as well as key objects and stories within the collection. Artists should plan to be in the public areas a minimum of 6 hours a day, from about 10- 4:00PM for each of those three days. Additional time on campus will be at the artist’s discretion. Interactions with the public are intended to be short and informal, and to introduce museum visitors tothe artist and the artistic process. Museum staff will work with the selected artists to identify a location(s) that is suitable for them to work. Throughout the residency, artists will have access to the museum’s outdoor areas any time (including trails, though limited access to trails in September due to hunting season) 24-hours a day/7 days a week.

  
Each artist will also spend two days each week (10-4:30PM) in the museum’s Art Lab (makerspace), working on their own creations at their leisure and guiding drop-in participatory activities for visitors based upon the artist’s own creative style. The artists will casually interact with visitors in the Art Lab, and welcome them to this creative space. ADKX’s Public Programs staff can offer guidance to the artist on activities suitable for the makerspace. Art Lab participatory activities must be designed for visitors to take home with them, and be able to be completed in a relatively short period of time (minimum of 5 minutes). Visitors can choose to stay in the Art Lab for as much or as little time as they want, during open hours. The museum is responsible for supplying Art Lab materials for public use, and will provide those within a specified budget.

  
The artists-in-residence will also have the opportunity to coordinate with ADKX’s curatorial staff to have a limited amount of time in the collection storage areas to study, sketch, and document works in the collection. The collections will be available to the artist on weekdays before 10:00 AM. Artists can choose, as time and schedules allow, to attend daily morning meetings with exhibit Interpretation staff and regularly scheduled department and all-staff meetings.

**$5000 stipend** for the duration of the residency and $500 travel allowance. Artists are expected to provide their own materials, with the exception of those used for the Art Lab activity.

  
**On-site housing (no cost):**

Artists will be housed in a large bedroom in the second floor of ADKX’s “Residence” building. The second floor is accessed by a staircase. The room is large enough for two adults, and can be set up with a small work space (for use by the artist and/or a spouse or partner). ADKX will not provide a computer or separate office space; free wi-fi is available. The room is large, but would be cozy for any artist with children over the age of two. The room is private and secured with a lock. The Residence is not a public building, but used regularly by staff and professional visitors. It is locked after hours when staff are not in the office areas. Pets are not allowed on the ADKX campus.

  
The first floor of the Residence building includes office areas as well as a large, fully-furnished kitchen and dining area used throughout the day by year-round staff. There are two bedrooms on the second floor. There is a shared full bathroom on that floor used by those occupying the bedrooms. A single person, usually a member of the museum’s seasonal staff, uses the second bedroom.

  
There is a shared washer and dryer on the main floor of the Residence. There is no charge for use of the laundry facilities, but hours are limited to evenings and weekends. Free parking is available in a staff parking area adjacent to the Residence. Wi-fi and all utilities are provided.

The artist will offer the museum one work produced through the residency as a first option purchase at a fair market price. The museum may decline to purchase any works at its sole discretion.

  

2025 Artist-in-Residence Program

Building on Satellite, the very successful pilot residency run in collaboration with The Mothership Project, Cow House Studios, with the support of Wexford County Council is pleased to offer an annual two-week residency designed specifically for parenting artists. The Parenting Artist Residency makes it possible for awarded artists to dedicate time to their work by offering all the support necessary. We recognize many artists discover they must drop or drastically curtail their creative practice while having children, leaving a cultural gap. This residency supports parenting artists at this key stage in their lives, assisting them to have productive and rewarding careers as they rear their families.

  
The Parenting Artist Residency is designed specifically for parenting artists with dependants between two and twelve years old; children and partners are welcome. Through an open call, this residency will allow participating artists to develop new work, progress existing projects, or return to their practice after taking time to have children. This residency offers childcare, a stipend of €500, accommodation, and meals.

  
This residency aims to provide a platform that is notably missing from existing offerings, fostering solidarity among artists who often end up isolated and alienated from existing art structures because of having a family.

  
Selected artists and their families will come to Rathnure and reside at Cow House Studios for two weeks in spring 2025, from April 14th to the 27th. While here, they will be immersed in the supportive and invigorating environment at Cow House Studios. Childcare is provided from 10 AM until 5 PM on weekdays, allowing artists to focus entirely on their work.

Stipend: €500

  
Residency Includes:

* three delicious and healthy meals daily\*
* a private room and studio
* use of studio tools, facilities, and materials
* childcare from 10 AM to 5 PM, Monday to Friday\*\*

  
\*Breakfast is self-service, while lunch and dinner are enjoyed as a group. All food is lovingly prepared in our kitchen.

  
\*\*There is a lunch break from 1 to 2 PM. Parents are expected to mind their children at mealtimes.

Parenting Artist Residency 2025

The interdisciplinary collaboration between artist and researcher should address the theme of multispecies relations and the more-than-human. The residencies will take place at Earthwise Residency, Mols, Denmark.

  
The more-than-human is the focus of the two Curious Encounters at Earthwise, because we think that more interdisciplinary work is needed in this fast-growing and important field. We believe that the climate emergency is caused by the industrialized societies having forgotten that Planet Earth is not just ‘resources’ for humans to utilize and grab, but a shared home, with no alternatives.Collaborations across science and art can propose new ways – or highlight the wisdom of old ways – to coexist with and understand other species / the more-than-human.Earthwise Residency focuses on practices and research, which heightens our sensitivity, knowledge, and methods for consciously reweaving our human lives with the myriad of relations and interdependencies we all rely on. We are interested in communication with the living world and the animal kingdom, and in developing creative work that situates and enhances curiosity and intimacy – encounters -with the more-than-human, while at the same time exploring corresponding academic research through artistic lenses.The two residencies Curious Encounters is one of our active contributions to the paradigm shifts happening these years. We believe that interdisciplinary meetings – the meeting and mixing of aesthetics, art expressions, humanities, and sciences – hold the possibility to foster new thoughts, rediscover ancient knowledge as well as new paths for action.

  
**What we are looking for, or hope to experience**

* Expanding / exploring the ways in which we in the arts communicate with other living entities as well as communicate about them; ie what does ‘understand’ and ‘relate’ mean, and how can ways of understanding and relating be shared?
* Expanding / exploring formats of conducting research in as well as disseminating work processes, findings and questions in the area of the more-than-human.
* Expanding / exploring formats of and ways to document work with and about the more-than-human
* Expanding / exploring ways to share work processes and methods in an ongoing dialogue, in-situ as well as online.

  
For Curious Encounters 4 we are looking for performing artists and visual artists with an interest in time-based work and performance who already have an initial contact to or an ongoing collaboration with a researcher. Applicants must have a genuine interest in interdisciplinary approaches – and their innate challenges – and preferably some experience of working with the-more-than-human. 

**Earthwise Provides:**

  
* Working space (writing tables, as well as a small studio space, and lots of outdoor space) \* Accommodation in private rooms in a house shared with Earthwise volunteers \* Working space (writing tables, as well as a small studio space, and lots of outdoor space) \* Space for partners/children can be negotiated \* Access to a rich library w/ relevant titles \* Access to the other facilities of Earthwise \* Mentoring or consultations with Earthwise’s host, Christine Fentz, and possibly other respondents \* A stipend of 5.000 € for each of the two persons \* A small budget for materials.

Curious Encounters 4

On behalf of the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design and the Museum of Art (UMMA), we invite you to apply for the **2025 – 2026 Roman Witt Residency**, specially themed to explore the upcoming United States Semiquincentennial (2026). We especially encourage social practice, performing, and performance artists with an interest in issues of national identity, commemorative practices and memory, and the history and future of the United States, to apply. 

  
The mission of the Roman J. Witt Residency Program is to support an artist in the production of new work in association with the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. The program awards one residency per academic year to a visiting artist/​designer to create new work at the school while engaging the university community. This will be the fourth iteration of the Witt Residency that is held in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) – previous artists Zafos Xagorias (2018), Courtney McLellan (2020), and Machine Dazzle (2024) also featured performance and/​or social practice activations extensively in their work. The selected artist will work with partners at the Museum of Art and the Witt Residency to conceptualize, design, mount and produce a performance, activation, or intervention in the Museum of Art’s Lizzie and Jonathan Tish Apse in the Fall of 2026\. 

  
During the Witt Residency, it is expected that the resident actively engages with the Stamps and UMMA community. To this end, a portion of the resident’s time at the university will be spent in direct interaction with students and faculty. Possibilities for interactions include but are not limited to: students working directly with the resident on artistic production; students interviewing resident; students observing resident’s process; resident dialoguing with students and faculty both in and outside of classes; resident providing critiques of student work; resident giving public talks/​lectures/​workshops; resident hosting open studio hours. 

  
**2025 – 2026 Witt Residency Timeline** 

Dates to be mutually agreed upon between resident and hosts.

**Spring 2025**

* Resident site visit #1 to the University of Michigan with coordinated orientations to Stamps School of Art & Design, UMMA, and (if appropriate) other campus collaborators

**Fall 2025**

* Resident site visit #2 for continued research and preliminary scoping of project

**Winter 2026**

* Scope of project finalized
* Creative residency during Winter term / student engagement

**Fall 2026**

* Production residency to mount project
* Project is realized during the Fall term
* Artist lecture/​presentation in the Penny Stamps Speaker Series

  

* $20,000 honorarium
* Housing
* Workspace
* Up to $5,000 in research and development funding
* Production budget for the final project (in collaboration with UMMA)

Roman J. Witt Residency

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