Are you ready to apply for an artist residency to focus on or develop your work? A number of artist residencies in the North Bay have Spring 2017 deadlines. Residencies based in Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino Counties are listed below. Scroll to the bottom for links to national and international artist residency directories to search for opportunities beyond the North Bay.
March 2017
Opportunities are listed by application deadline, with upcoming first. If you know of a North Bay artist residency that is not on this list, please email creativesonoma@sonoma-county.org so that we can add it. Thank you!
SONOMA COUNTY
Wildlands Art Residency
Open to Visual Artists, Writers, Poets, Composers, Performers, Filmmakers, and Architects
www.wildlandsart.org
Deadline: March 31 for June 3-25, 2017
Sonoma Community Center
Ceramics Residency Program
www.sonomacommunitycenter.org
Deadline: May 2, 2017 for July-December 2017
Deadline: November 17, 2017 for January-July 2018
Chalk Hill Artist Residency
Open to All Media: fine arts, design, multi-media, sound artists, dance, musicians, performance, and writers, including both abled and disabled artists.
www.chalkhillresidency.com
Deadline: August 31, 2017 for 2018 season
Writing Between the Vines: Vineyard Retreats for Writers
www.writingbetweenthevines.org
Deadline: Fall 2017 deadline (TBA) for Winter-Spring 2018
MARIN COUNTY
Mesa Refuge
Open to writers and other creatives, mostly focused on “ideas at the edge” of nature, human economy and social equity.
www.mesarefuge.org
Deadline: June 1, 2017 for Fall 2017 and December 1, 2017 for Spring 2018
Headlands Center for the Arts
Open to All Media: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, and architecture.
www.headlands.org
Deadline: June 2, 2017 for March-November 2018 residencies
Lucid Art Foundation
Open to artists working in the visual arts, video/new media, music composition, and choreography.
www.lucidart.org
Deadline: November 2017 deadline (TBA) for 2018 residencies.
MENDOCINO COUNTY
Mendocino Art Center Artist-In-Residence Program
Ceramics & Sculpture, Fiber Art/Textiles, Fine Art, and Jewelry/Metalworking
www.mendocinoartcenter.org
Deadline: April 11, 2017 for October 1, 2017 – May 15, 2018 residencies
Project 387
Open to artists working in the fields of visual and interdisciplinary arts.
www.project387.com
Deadline: Currently on hiatus in 2017, watch for application materials for Summer 2018
ARTIST RESIDENCY DIRECTORIES
Alliance of Artists Communities
www.artistcommunities.org
Res Artis
www.resartis.org
US National Park Service
Open to visual artists, writers, musicians, and other creative media.
www.nps.gov