Artist Resources

AAUW: AAUW has a history of advancing education and professional opportunities for women in the United States and across the globe.

The Alexia Foundation offers production grants to students and professional photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place. Students also get scholarship opportunities.

ASF American Scandinavian Foundation awards grants to American students to study and research abroad in Scandinavia.

Art Deadline has been dedicated to world wide distribution of information for artists and institutions; part of their mission is to sponsor grants to help artists as arts is an important and innate part of the human experience.

Arts Writers Grant Program | The Creative Capital |  supports writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors.

ArtsLink supports exchange between artists and arts organizations in the United States and various eligible countries.

AROHO  A Room of Her Own selects award recipients who not only demonstrate their talent, but also their motivation. These women must have solid creative goals and a specific project to accomplish during the two-year term of the grant.

BRAF Black Rock Arts Foundation funds highly interactive, community-driven works of art that prioritize community involvement in their development, execution and display. They fund art that is accessible to the public, civic in scope and prompts the viewer to act.

The Belvedere Grant is available to support the professional development of MECA graduates from the past 10 years who are working in the field of crafts.

The Center for Craft Creativity & Design: The Craft Research Fund advances, expands, and supports craft, art, and design scholarship in the United States.

CCI: The Center for Cultural Innovation understands working artists need direct support to develop their creative practice and provides grants to provide the support needed.

College Art Association: CAA’s Professional Development Fellowship supports artists enrolled in MFA programs by honoring them with $5,000 grants to help with various aspects of their work.

The Christianson Grant is awarded to individuals who have arranged their own work abroad programs. Proposed programs must be at least six months in length and emphasize a work component.

CIES: Offering a Fulbright grant to lecture, conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars.

Circum-Arts is a not-for-profit arts service organization providing administrative support to individual artists and other non-profits, particularly in the fields of dance, music, performance art, radio, theatre, film and video arts.

Cranbrook provides a list of grants for artists.

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in all disciplines.

Elizabeth Green Shields Foundation promotes, by its charitable activities, an appreciation of traditional expression in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking, by aiding worthy art students, artists or sculptors who need further training or other assistance during their formative years.

Foundation Center allows you to look up grantmakers by state, city, or zipcode, along with providing locational statistics and local resources.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts provides grants in five categories: dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. Grants are awarded annually to outstanding or unusually promising artists and arts organizations which create, present, or support work of an imaginative, contemporary nature and need this kind of assistance.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online FGIO is a grant and resource based search engine for artists, students, researchers, and individuals.

Getty Through strategic grants and programs, the Foundation supports projects in Los Angeles and throughout the world that advance the understanding and preservation of the visual arts.

The Gottlieb Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success.

Japan Foundation has various types of support programs. By making available the tools, opportunities, and venues that facilitate exchange activities, we invite individuals and organizations actively engaged in such a mission to participate in our programs.

Launchpad Grant, provided by Gorham Savings Bank, invites entrepreneurs to submit their business idea. The winner of the competition is awarded $30,000.

Libra Future Fund: awards grants to individuals 29 and under to promote economic development or create job opportunities in Maine. In addition, projects should provide the applicant with substantial professional or educational experience.

The Maine Arts Commission encourages and stimulates public interest and participation in the cultural heritage and cultural programs of our state; expands the state’s cultural resources; and encourages and assists freedom of artistic expression for the well being of the arts, all while meeting the needs and aspirations of persons in all parts of the state.

Moon and Stars Project’s grants program provides competitively awarded Project and Residency grants for burgeoning and established artists.

NEA: Independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities.

NASAA: The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies is a membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation’s state and jurisdictional art agencies.

NEH: The National Endowment of Humanities allows you to search through their database for grants.

NYFA’s Opportunities & Services for Artists a comprehensive online directory for grants, open calls, auditions and residencies and many more nationwide for artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers, performers and musicians.

The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy

The Warhol Foundation’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing; and efforts to promote the health, welfare and first amendment rights of artists.

WomenArts provides women artists a list of resources for grants that can help them in their professional careers.

The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art.

The Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. is a charitable foundation that assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, printmakers, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.

Boren Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency.

CAA: College Art Association’s Professional-Development Fellowships support promising artists and art historians who are enrolled in MFA and PhD programs nationwide. Fellows are honored with $5,000 grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio.

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts presents its annual program of support for advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, urbanism, and photographic media.

The Fellowship at the DeVos Institute of Art Management is an immersive program in arts management strategy designed to prepare mid-career arts managers for executive positions in today’s complex arts environment.

FAWC: The Fine Arts Work Center offers a unique residency for writers and visual artists in the crucial early stages of their careers, located in Provincetown,Massachusetts.

Grant Wood Art Colony in Iowa City, IA, offers fellowships in Printmaking and Painting & Drawing that provide a $40,000 teaching salary, benefits, housing and studio space.

The Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed.

Headland’s Graduate Fellowships provide meaningful support to recent, promising MFA graduates, in partnership with esteemed Bay Area academic institutions.

Maker Fellows is a paid fellowship for part-time instructors in STEAM-powered maker spaces around the country.

The Mind Trust empowers talented innovators to transform K-12 education by starting groundbreaking initiatives to address some of its most pressing problems.

The NYC Teaching Fellows program recruits and prepares high-quality, dedicated individuals to become teachers who raise student achievement in the New York City classrooms that need them most.

Ox-Bow welcomes twelve fellowship students from all over the nation. These students live on campus for the duration of the summer season, from approximately June 1 – September 1, where they participate in campus life as both staff members and as artists.

Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA) annually awards up to 12 fellowships of $60,000 to artists of exemplary talent.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields.

The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program annually selects and supports 50 leading artists and scholars who have both exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments.

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies supports professional development in museum education, evaluation, and new media.

Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, offers fellowships where residents receive an individual studio, private room, and all meals.

The attached Guide to Resources for Maine Entrepreneurs is intended to provide a starting point for entrepreneurs seeking resources in the state of Maine.

A step-by-step guide for artists making a pitch, by Fractured Atlas.

• Training, Technical Assistance, & Mentoring
• Financing & Capital
• Incubators & Workspaces
• Libraries
• Networking & Advocacy
• State & Regional Economic Development

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Artist Residency Program
Rockland, Maine

The residency is envisioned as inclusive and diverse, prompting reflection and dialogue with other residents and the community, offering the gift of concentrated time and space in which to unveil new ideas and imagine new ways of working.

Residency dates: six months, September 1, 2017 – February 29, 2018
Cost to apply: Free
Cost to attend: Free, with stipend included
Stipends or Scholarships available: $6,000 per resident for the six months, but housing is not provided

Great Spruce Head Island Art Week
Great Spruce Head Island, Maine

Each summer since 1993 a group of 12 artists, (painters, writers, sculptors, photographers) some new, some repeaters have come to Great Spruce
Head Island to work independently and to share their love of the artistic process. Art week has no instruction or structured workshop. Participants enjoy three special meals a day, a private bedroom and work space on one of five porches.

Residency dates: one week in late June or July
Cost to apply: Free
Cost to attend: $900/week
Stipends or Scholarships available: Yes

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle, Maine

Haystack’s core summer workshops include one- and two-week sessions in blacksmithing, clay, fibers, glass, graphics, metals, and wood. Classes are open to adults 18 years or older of all skill levels – from beginners to advanced professionals. Studios are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with classes scheduled Monday through Friday. The Haystack community is made up of approximately 85 participants, including staff, students, and internationally known faculty artists. Instructors determine the format of their workshops.

Residency dates: June–September, 1–2 week sessions
Cost to apply: $50
Cost to attend: 2017 Tuition is $550–1,030; housing is $230–2,240
Stipends or Scholarships available: Technical Assistant Scholarships, Work Study, and Minority Scholarships available

Heliker-LaHotan Foundation Residency Program
Cranberry Island, Maine

It was the wish of Jack Heliker and Robert LaHotan that their home and studios on Cranberry Island in Maine continue to be used by artists. To this end they left their estates to the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, with a mandate to operate the complex of buildings on Cranberry Island as a place for artists to live and work. The three-to four-week residencies are designed for mid-career artists of established ability, not emerging talents. Because the purpose of the Foundation is to provide opportunities for mature individual artists to work uninterrupted in a tranquil setting, spouses, partners, children, or pets are not included in the arrangements.

Residency dates: June–October, 3-week sessions
Cost to apply: $40
Cost to attend: 2017 cost is $1,250
Stipends or Scholarships available: None

Hewnoaks Artist Residency
Center Lovell, Maine

Artists with an adventurous spirit are invited to live and work at Hewnoaks between late June and mid-September. Residencies run from one to two weeks, depending on availability. Participants will live in small, rustic cabins equipped with basic kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms.

Participants are responsible for their own transportation and will have to bring everything they need in order to set up their studios. Hewnoaks does not have any designated studio spaces, so residents will need to improvise working in their cabins or outside somewhere. Previous residents have been creative and resourceful in finding ways to do their work while keeping the living spaces clean.

Residency dates: June–September, 1–2 week sessions
Cost to apply: $25
Cost to attend: Free
Stipends or Scholarships available: None

Illustration Institute’s Marilyn Faison Artist Residency
Peak’s Island, Maine

The mission of the Marilyn Faison Artist Residency is to provide illustrators, writers and narrative artists an opportunity to create in relative seclusion on Peaks Island, just off the coast of Portland, Maine.

Residency dates: Two weeks each during summer
Cost to apply:  Invitation only
Cost to attend:  none
Stipends or Scholarships available: None

Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm
Jefferson, Maine

Rolling Acres Farm is a beautiful, 130-acre farm property located on Damariscotta Lake. The setting is remote and peaceful, but not far from the lively and picturesque village of Damariscotta. The property boasts a large, renovated farmhouse with a large connected barn.

The Visual Artist Residency is one month long, with 2 artists per months attending for July, August, and September. It includes a private room with shared bathroom in the renovated farmhouse at Rolling Acres Farm, shared kitchen and living space, and a private studio space in the barn with a large art table and easel. The residents will have three shared dinners a month which will be attended by the residency directors and one or more visiting artists (two dinners will be prepared by a local chef, one will be a potluck). At these gatherings, there will be opportunities for structured critiques by established artists.

Residency dates: July–September, one-month sessions
Cost to apply: Free for current members of Maine Farmland Trust, $15 for non-members
Cost to attend: Free
Stipends or Scholarships available: $1000 stipend and local food coupons for the value of $400

Monhegan Artists’ Residency
Monhegan, Maine

For well over 150 years, Monhegan Island has inspired countless artists, including Robert Henri, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Reuben Tam, Elena Jahn and Jamie Wyeth, to name a few. While Monhegan continues to attract artists from across the country and around the world, it is increasingly difficult for Maine artists to find affordable housing for an extended visit on the island.

To this end, the Monhegan Artists’ Residency provides free comfortable living quarters, studio space, a stipend of $150 per week, and time for visual artists to reflect on, experiment, or develop their art while living in an artistically historic and beautiful location.

Residency dates: Late May through early October, two 5-week sessions and one 2-week session for a K–12 art teacher
Cost to apply: $25
Cost to attend: Free
Stipends or Scholarships available: $150/week

Monson Arts
Monson, Maine

Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of the 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of roughly 5 artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and stipend. Application for this program is open to anyone at any stage of their career, working in visual arts, writing, and related fields (i.e. audio, video, photography).

Residency dates: Year-round with peak summer reserved for workshops
Cost to attend: Free
Stipends or Scholarships available: $500 stipend for two-week residency, $1000 for month-long

Norton Island Residency Program for Writers and Artists
Norton Island, Maine

Each summer, Norton Island hosts established artists, musicians, and writers so they may develop and share their work in an extraordinarily beautiful and remote wilderness setting. The nature of this program is straightforward, even rudimentary: this is a remote, rustic wilderness with facilities to accommodate a select group of artists who sometimes share their work after dinner but are otherwise there to work uninterrupted. The environment is beautiful, extreme, and unadorned. Each resident is required to work with their fellow residents to conserve water and electricity, to help clean up after dinner, and to tote their own share of firewood. Norton Island is an outdoorsy experience that may come as a shock at first to residents who have spent time at other artist residencies.

Residency dates: Summer; July 6–17 in 2017
Cost to apply: $35
Cost to attend: $125
Stipends or Scholarships available: Yes

Pace House Residency
Stonington, Maine

This residency is offered only to the MECA community. Alumni, faculty, and staff can apply for residencies of one to four weeks at the Stephen Pace house in Stonington, ME. Once the summer home of American artist Stephen Pace, it was bequeathed to MECA in 2007 for use as a residency site and gallery. The house can sleep up to eight people, with a large studio space in the barn, a small vegetable garden, and the main village with additional resources within easy walking distance. Residencies are available between June 3rd and October 18th, with the exception of September 4-18.

Residency dates: June–October, 1-week sessions
Cost to apply: None
Cost to attend: Free
Stipends or Scholarships available: None

Seapoint International Artist Residency
Kittery Point, Maine

The Seapoint International Artist Residency was founded in 2012, in an effort to bring multicultural writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians into a thriving and vibrant creative community. The Residency is a peaceful, unique, and inspiring sanctuary in which to create. As the director of S.I.A.R., Alicia Goodwin offers her experience as an artist, writer, curator, and world-traveler to visiting artists, as well as exposure to a wide network of other local, national, and international individuals and organizations integral to a successful artistic cultural exchange. While each artist is encouraged to work at their own pace, each month will offer opportunities for artist talks, salons, visits to museums, galleries and other studios, and an open house style exhibition at the residency-run, off-site Gallery.

Residency dates: year-round, 1–3 month sessions
Cost to apply: Free
Cost to attend: $1,000/month
Stipends or Scholarships available: None

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Skowhegan, Maine

Open to advanced visual artists and art students in painting, sculpture, fresco, installation, performance, video, photography, mixed media who are at least 19 years of age. The summer intensive allows 65 artists to produce new work in a communal, rural environment. No structured classes, but critical assistance (in the form of weekly one-on-one sessions) scheduled with a faculty or resident and visiting artists. Shared living facilities in dormitory, sculpture shop, darkroom. Fees charged; some fellowships offered. (visual arts)

Residency dates: June–August, one nine-week session
Cost to apply: $0–60 according to date submitted
Cost to attend: $6,075
Stipends or Scholarships available: Financial Aid is available; MECA alumni are eligible for a partial scholarship

SPACE Artist-in-Residence Program
Portland, Maine

Designed to provide a unique working environment for national emerging and mid-career artists, writers, filmmakers, curators, and collaborative groups, this program is committed to highlighting the contributions of queer artists and artists of color. The SPACE Residency connects artists from outside Portland to the city’s vibrant arts community and offers engagement opportunities that fit each resident’s needs. It is dedicated to those artists seeking uninterrupted time and space to devote to their practice.

Residency dates: Summer through Fall, two to four week sessions
Cost to apply: Free
Cost to attend: Free
Stipends or Scholarships available: $500 per session

StudioWorks Residency at Tides Institute Museum of Art
Eastport, Maine

The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) offers residency opportunities to visual artists from the U.S. and abroad to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Our studios, museum and housing are located within the historic downtown and working waterfront of Eastport, Maine and overlook the U.S./Canada boundary. TIMA’s downtown StudioWorks building contains private studios, common work areas, and a ground floor printmaking and letterpress studio. TIMA is also developing a nearby larger scale Free Will North Church Project Space which provides additional studio workspace and exhibition opportunities. A StudioWorks residency provides an artist with a unique experience to play an active role in our creative community.

Residency dates: May–November, 4- or 8-week sessions
Cost to apply: $25
Cost to attend: $2,000 for 4-week residency, $4,000 for 8-week residency
Stipends or Scholarships available: None

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, Maine

Various jobs for studio and stipend; ceramics only; dorm room accommodations. 2-week sessions during summer months and 9-month residencies from Sept.-May. On 32 rural acres with gently rolling hills in a former brick factory. Some residencies fully funded, some partially funded. Equipment on-site includes a variety of kilns, potters’ wheels, clay mixer, pug mill.

Residency dates: June–October, 8-day, 2-week, and 2.5-week sessions
Cost to apply: $200 deposit due with registration
Cost to attend: $540–$1,150, plus housing ($400–$1,600 per person)
Stipends or Scholarships available: $250–$1,525 scholarships available for 2-week residencies

Directories

The Alliance of Artists Communities is a one-stop guide to residencies for visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, scholars, filmmakers, community artists, architects, and more.

Air-J is a directory dedicated to information on residency programs in Japan, with listings in both Japanese and English.

ArtsLink Residencies offers artists and arts managers from eligible overseas countries a five-week residency at an established, non-profit arts organization in the US.

DutchCulture | TransArtists shares knowledge and experience on residency programmes and related topics.

Residencies

18th Street Arts Center’s Visiting Artist Residency Program (Santa Monica, CA) organizes residency programs that help build and strengthen the creative community by working with local, national and international artists and curators. There are five types of residencies that host organizations, artists, and curators.

Archie Bray Foundation Resident Programs (Helena, MT) welcome artists to develop a portfolio for graduate school, use their residency as a transition from school to establishing their own studio, or as a chance to escape from daily routine and recharge their creative enthusiasm. For all artists, it is a period of time to focus intensely on their work, explore new ideas and techniques, and push their work to new levels. Residencies range from a few months (short-term and summer) to up to two years (long-term).

ARCUS Project “Residency for Artists, Experiments for Locals” (Ibaraki, Japan) aims to support promising artists who engage in creative activities across the world, and also, to promote the Ibaraki area through art.

Art Farm’s Artist Residency Program (Marquette, NE) is for professionals, emerging or established, in all areas of the arts and offering accommodations and studio space to pursue their art in exchange for a contribution of labor of 12 hours per week to help renovate and maintain Art Farm’s buildings and grounds as well as other projects, suited to skills and temperament. 

Artist-in-Residence Program at Noble and Greenough School (Dedham, MA) is an eight-week residential program for visual artists. The program seeks to foster collaborative relationships between the artist and the school’s community of students, faculty and parents.

Artspace (Raleigh, NC) Through the Regional Emerging Artist Residency, the Summer Artist Residency, and the Pop In Artist Residency programs, Artspace provides short-term studio opportunities for Southeastern emerging artists and established artists from around the country.

Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) (New Smyrna Beach, FL) has a strong local presence and relationships in the community as a venerated international artist’s residency. The Master Artist Residency couples prominent Master Artists with selected Associate Artists for three week periods. Since residencies are process based, and not product-driven, time can be spent on previously existing projects, on new experiments, or on collaborations.

Baie St. Marie Residency (Nova Scotia, Canada) is only offered only to the MECA community. Alumni, faculty, and staff can apply for residencies of two to four weeks in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE) provide artists from around the world dedicated time, space, and resources to conduct research and to create new work. Frequently cited as one of the top international residency programs, the Bemis Center offers artists private live/work studios, financial support, technical/administrative assistance, and opportunities for intellectual discourse about contemporary art through free public programs.

Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence (Illaroo, New South Wales, Australia) is open to professional artists and thinkers from all disciplines, individually or in groups. The porgram supports new work, research, and collaborations by Australian and international artists, who are hosted in purpose-built studios on our Shoalhaven River properties on the south coast of New South Wales.

Caldera’s Artists in Residence program (Sisters, OR) awards the gift of time and space to creative individuals, collaborations, and performing ensembles are at our beautiful Arts Center in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains for monthlong residencies every winter from January through March. Residencies are open to national and international artists in any discipline, as well as creative thinkers in culinary arts, design, engineering, and the sciences.

Centre de Recerca i Creacio Casamerles (CeRCCa) New Artists and Researchers Residency Project (Tarragona, Spain) promotes exchange and reflection with no obligation of producing a concrete body of work or having a final exhibition.

Chinati Foundation’s Artist in Residence (Marfa, TX) program supports the development of artists of diverse ages, backgrounds, and disciplines. The program provides an opportunity for artists from around the world to work in a striking, natural environment.

Dacia Gallery (New York, NY) This painting intensive program will comprise of drawing and painting the figure from life, guest lecturers, a business of art course and gallery visits. Additionally, Dacia Gallery will host a group exhibition of the artwork created during the program.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Woodside, CA) is awarded competitively, at no cost, to national and international artists in the disciplines of choreography, literature, music composition, visual arts, media arts, and science. Applications are sought from emerging and mid-career artists, for whom appointments as resident artists may make a significant difference to their careers, as well as from established artists with national and/or international reputations.

Eyebeam Residency (Brooklyn, NY) is a prestigious award for artists engaged with technology and technologists working in the arts. With the goal of invention and impact residents research and develop new projects for up to one year in Eyebeam studios located in Brooklyn. Residents receive a generous financial stipend, access to top-notch facilities as well as a dynamic and engaged community. Frequent critiques and mentorship by leaders in the arts, business, and technology sectors round out the experience.

Franconia Sculpture Park (Franconia, MN) awards competitive fellowships and internships to up to 40 emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists each year, supporting the creation and exhibition of large-scale sculpture at the 43-acre sculpture park and artist residency.

Headlands Artist in Residence (AIR) program (Sausalito, CA) awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 45 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, comfortable housing, and travel and living stipends.

Hill End Artists in Residence Program (Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia) has grown into one of Australia’s most sought after residencies. The Residency Program allows contemporary Australian and international artists the chance to experience and respond to the historically charged landscape of Hill End. Visual artists, writers/curators and new media/film/video artists are invited to apply.

La Napoule Art Foundation (La Napoule, France) offers time and space for creative minds to engage in cultural interchange and meaningful work that impacts the world of the common good, by providing three distinct residency opportunities for accomplished and emerging artists from around the world.

Lawrence Arts Center Artist in Residence Program (Lawrence, KS) is designed to provide a creative and supportive environment in which artists may immerse themselves in creating new work and expanding their own understanding of their medium and other media available at the Arts Center. The residencies are multi-faceted experience that include teaching, community outreach, interaction with other artists, and studio care, and will culminate in an exhibition of new work.

The MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination.

The Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz, NY) is an artists residency program in Upstate New York offering one-month and two-week retreats to six visual artists, writers and composers each month between April and November. We also offer a select number of group residencies for collaborating artists and virtual residencies for those who can’t spend prolonged time away from home.

The Patterson Residency Program at Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD) provides a highly visible, intense and creative environment for the production of artwork in all media. Attracting artists from around Baltimore and the nation, the program is located at The Patterson, a historic former movie theater converted into a vibrant, community-based art center, with generous workspace, modern facilities, and an atmosphere of ongoing critical feedback.

Pilchuck offers residencies to emerging artists and professional artists as well as the John H. Hauberg Fellowship, a collaborative residency.

Polli Talu (literally, “Polly’s Farm”) is a traditional Estonian farm complex situated near the Baltic Sea, 150 km southwest of the capital city Tallinn, not far from the port town of Virtsu.

Post Contemporary (Troy, NY) offers time to artists to revitalize their ideas, develop their work, meet peers, and explore new options. The Post Contemporary focuses on emerging and early career artists and accepts applicants in a diversity of style, medium, and concept.

Ragdale believes that time and space are not luxuries but necessary elements for creating important new work. Add eleven other creative individuals to the mix, acres of idyllic prairie, a family-style dinner each night, and you have Ragdale.

ResArts provides a huge resource list of residencies for artists.

Residency Unlimited fosters customized residency environments for artists and curators in all disciplines and at all stages of their practices, located in New York City.

The Rijksakademie residency is a place for research and production for talented, professional artists from around the world. There are fifty-five studios where resident artists, two years may engage in research, experiments, projects and production.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library’s artist-in-residence program was one of the first of its kind. It commissions artists to create original works inspired by the museum’s collection of nearly 400,000 rare books, manuscripts, and decorative and fine arts objects.

Saltonstall Arts: Time for inspiration, a quiet studio, a beautiful setting, and a stimulating community of artists working in diverse disciplines

Sculpture Space is unique in North America for its service to sculptors who come to Utica, NY to make new work. The program has helped advance the careers of over 400 national and international artists since 1976.

Sitka’s Residency Program has provided more than 200 artists, writers, musicians, and natural science scholars the opportunity to conduct their work in the unique environment of Cascade Head and Salmon River estuary.

The STUDIO is an arts research center designed to support creation and exploration in the arts, especially interdisciplinary projects that bring together the arts, science, technology and the humanities, and impact local and global communities.

Studios Midwest Art Residency is a 4-8 week summer residency in Galesburg, Illinois. Artists of any professional or graduate level and media are invited, and will help design and implement a plan for social practice in Galesburg.

TASARA – an Institution dedicated to creative weaving, is situated In Beypore, a village in Kerala. on the west coast of India. The Centre is well experienced in collaborating with renowned artists and designers in realizing their projects.

threewalls is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse. Through a range of exhibition and public programs, threewalls creates a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities.

Triangle Arts Association is a not-for-profit arts organization whose mission is to support emerging and mid-career international and national visual artists, encouraging dialogue and experimentation through workshops, residencies and exhibition opportunities.

Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that makes space for creativity and transforms communities.

The Vermont Studio Center hosts 50 artists and writers each month who participate in 4 to 12 week independent studio Residencies.

Women’s Studio Workshop supports artists by providing residency grants which provides time and space where artists can come to work with 24-hour access to the studios, onsite and adjacent housing and technical advice and support.

Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.

ADBASE allows you to input your information to find new clients and connect with Creatives and Buyers.

AJB: Job search engine by state.

Agency Access: The only one stop promotional service that takes care of direct marketing for commercial photographers, illustrators, artist reps and stock agencies.

Aerotek is a leading staffing agency that matches qualified candidates with top companies worldwide.

Animation World Network provides a job search engine for animators.

ArtJob: Careers in the Visual Arts – including full and part-time employment, internships, grants, public art projects, residencies.

ArtStaffing is an innovative firm that offers staffing, consulting and training programs for museums, non-profit organizations, and art businesses nationwide.

Aquent: Marketing and Design staffing solutions.

Backdoorjobs lists short-term job adventures that allows an individual to work, travel, play, live, learn, help, create, experience, and grow.

Behance.net gives a listing of creative jobs and freelance oppurtunities.

Best Jobs USA is a search engine catered to jobs in the United States.

BookJobs provides a centralized place for job seekers to research available positions throughout the publishing industry.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics gives an informational search engine to find statistics and descriptions of the career in which you have interest.

Career Builder allows you to search careers by occupation and location.

Career Jet is an employment search engine.

Career One Stop allows individuals to search jobs by state.

Careermag has open job listings in the US in all industries and professions.

CGArena posts job listings for those familiar with computer graphics.

Creative Circle offers creative staffing, marketing staffing, and creative jobs in several major cities.

The Creative Group is a leader in matching creative talent with the best companies.

Creative Heads is a job search engine for those familiar with the new media arts.

Design Directory matches up designers with qualifying jobs in the art world.

Ed2010 lists jobs for those wanting to work in the magazine business.

Employment.com provides users with millions of job listings from through out the web.

Employmentguide provides job search resources including job fairs and career advice.

Entertainment Careers provides a job list resource for those looking to enter the entertainment and media art world.

Filter provides creative marketing solutions and staffing resources.

The Firm List provides over 15,000 job listings for the web design and development world.

FP Select Jobs reaches across the web to deliver the most targeted jobseekers and jobs.

The Friedman Agency will cater to your individual needs and deliver exceptional results in the new media fields.

Graduate Jobs is a resource for entry-level and early-career job openings in liberal arts, writing/editing, business/management, education, art, and international fields.

Guru: Freelancers — find work online and across the globe.

Idealist is a search engine that lists jobs, organizations, volunteer oppurtunities, and internships catered to your interests and location.

Indeed: Search engine for jobs.

IMDiversity: Where careers, oppurtunities, and diversity connect.

Jobs.com is a general career search engine.

TheJobBored is a job search and career advice blog.

Job Finder Advisory: free online advice for a successful career change.

Idea Bounty is a platform for crowdsourcing creative Ideas. Clients are able to post creative briefs and creatives receive a Bounty if they submit the winning Idea.

Monster: career search engine.

NationJob provides an employment and online job search engine.

OPM: Recruiting, Retaining and Honoring a World-Class Workforce to Serve the American people.

Opportunity Knocks is a job search engine.

RocketHub is the world’s funding machine. RocketHub is an international and open community that has helped thousands of artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists raise millions of dollars.

Startuphire.com allows individuals to find jobs at startups.

Simply Hired is another job search engine.

Talent Zoo provides a list of jobs in advertising, marketing, creative, design, new media and digital industries.

USAJobs provides a search engine for jobs in the United States.

Usa Today’s job search engine.

Quintessential careers: empowering job-seekers through their search engine.

Venture for America will recruit the best and brightest college grads to work for two years at emerging start-ups and early-stage companies in lower-cost cities.

The WallStreet Journal offers their own career search engine.

Web Director for Artists gives a search engine for the creative fields.

WorkPlace Diversity has diversity and career information from over 2500 sources.

WWD.com is the authority for breaking news, comprehensive business coverage and trends in the worlds of fashion, beauty and retail; they have a growing career search listing.

Zapplication is a one-stop universal online application system that allows artists to submit and manage applications for participating art shows and more.

There are a variety of artist studio spaces available in Portland. Creative Portland has a directory of spaces that is searchable by medium. Find studio space in Portland.

AIGA is a national organization that advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force. AIGA Maine is the local chapter that offers memberships to access networking, programming and events, as well as additional benefits.

Creative Portland is a nonprofit organization that seeks to leverage, grow, and sustain Portland’s creative industries, enterprises, and workforce. As the City’s official local arts agency, they provide connections, maps, and a bevy of additional resources as well as managing the listings for Portland’s First Friday Artwalk.

Maine Arts Commission is a State of Maine agency devoted to enhancing the cultural heritage and cultural programs within the state. Their programs include arts accessibility, arts education, grants development, media arts, public arts, traditional arts, visual arts, and more, and they offer a variety of grant opportunities.

Maine Crafts Association is a nonprofit organization that provides advocacy for craft artists, with a focus on marketing and sales opportunities, business and creative development programs, public education, networking and more. They offer memberships that provide established and emerging craft artists with connections and visibility.

New Ventures helps people all over Maine to venture in new directions by offering tuition-free programs for career, business, and financial education.

The Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA) represents visual artists statewide in all fields of endeavor. They collaborate with other cultural and political organizations and raise awareness for significant issues while promoting an inclusive arts community in Maine.