NEW ENGLAND

CONNECTICUT
Griffis Art Center , Sharon T. Griffis, 21 Bristol St., New London, CT 06320 (203) 443-3431. 3 - 5 international artists selected annually for AIR Program; 5 month residencies; furnished apt., studio; must participate in exhibitions, lecture series, and donate one artwork completed during residency. (visual arts)
http://www.GriffisArtCenter.com

I-Park , Radek Associates, PO Box 124, E. Haddam, CT 06423. 450 acre forest in rural East Haddam, AIR Garden Park; Performing arts facilities; Memorial Park. No fees. Favors figurative over conceptual in the visual arts; tonal/melodic over minimalist in music composition. (visual, literary, performing arts and architecture, landscape, and garden design)
http://www.radekassociates.com/

Weir Farm , Artist in Residence Program, 735 Nod Hill Rd., Wilton, CT 06897 (203) 761-9945. Former summer home of J. Alden Weir, American Impressionist painter. The only National Park Service site dedicated to an American painter. Open year round, 1 artist at a time, residencies of 2 weeks to 1 mo., stipend. Open to 2D visual artists including printmakers and painters, phtographers, sculptors, video/filmmakers. (visual, media arts).
http://www.nps.gov/wefa/home.htm

Wisdom House , 229 E. Litchfield Rd., Litchfield, CT 06759 (860) 567-3163. Interfaith center for women and men who value seeking and learning in a contemplative environment. Residency program and conference center on 54 acres, gardens, wooded areas in the foothills of the Berkshires. Fee-based; daily and weekly rates; competitive admissions.
http://www.wisdomhouse.org
 
MAINE
Acadia National Park , AIR Program, PO Box 177, Eagle Lake Rd., Bar Harbor, ME 04609 (207) 288-5459. 3 week residencies in the Spring and Fall. Accomodations in one-bedroom apartment near park headquarters with kitchen and laundry facilities. Artists asked to donate a piece of work to the Park's collection and share an offering with the public in the form of a demonstration, talk, exploratory hike, or performance. "With its dramatic cliffs stretching to the sea, its balsam scented forests, and spring warbler serenades, the area offers artists the age-old inspiration of nature." Open to 2D visual artists, photographers, sculptors, performers, writers, composers (visual, literary, performing arts).
http://www.nps.gov/acad/home.htm

Carina House , William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, PO Box 466, Rockland, ME 04841 (207) 596-6457. Visual artists who are at least 25 years old and legal residents of the state of Maine; 2 artists are awarded a 5-week residency on Monhegan Island and $500 stipend. Open to painters, drawers, printmakers, sculptors, photographers. (visual arts)
http://www.monhegan.com

Center for Creative Imaging , Eastman Kodak Co., 51 Mechanic St., Camden, ME 04843. Accepts proposals from photographers needing "the time and technology to complete specific projects." (visual arts)

Eastern Frontier Society , 342 Pine Brook Rd., Bedford, NY 10506. Stephen Dunn, Chairman. Residency on Norton Island in Maine. Up to 4 weeks in July. (literary, visual arts)
http://www.easternfrontier.com

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts , Deer Isle, ME 04627. Scholarship grants available, for craft artists. (visual arts)
http://www.craftweb.com/org/haystack/haystack.htm
Maine Photographic Workshops , 2 Central St., Rockport, ME 04856. Photographers. (visual arts)
http://www.meworkshops.com

Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture , 200 Park Ave. South, Suite 1116, New York, NY 10003 (212) 529-0505. 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. Residencies for 9 weeks, mid-June through mid-August. Located in the heavily forested lake district of central Maine. 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) is scheduled with a faculty of resident and visiting artists. Shared living facilities in dormitory, sculpture shop, darkroom. Fees charged; some fellowships offered. (visual arts)
http://www.skowheganart.org/

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts , 19 Brick Hill Rd., Newcastle, ME 04553 (207) 882-6075. Various jobs for studio and stipend; ceramics only; dorm room accommodations. 2 week sessions during summer months and 9 month residencies from Sept.-May. Located 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. (visual arts)
 
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston National Historical Park , AIR Program, Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02115 (617) 927-6615. Residencies of 2 to 12 months from Spetember through June. Open to 2D artists, photographers, sculptors, video/filmakers, craft artists. (visual, media arts)
http://www.nps.gov/volunteer/air.htm

Contemporary Artists Center , The Historic Beaver Mill, 189 Beaver St., North Adams, MA 01247 (413) 663-9555. In the Berkshires of western MA, 3 hours from NYC, on a 27 acre wooded site adjoining Natural Bridge State Park. Residencies of 1 week to 2 months; residency fees charged. Facilities include wood shop, darkroom, printmaking facilties, industrial tools, airbrush equipment. (visual, performing, conceptual and interdisciplinary arts)
http://www.thecac.org/residency.html

C-Scape Dune Shack , Provincetown Community Compact, Inc., PO Box 819, Provincetown, MA 02657 (508) 487-3684. Artist in Residence Program for Art and Healing. Residencies of 1 week to 3 months, year round on Cape Cod National Seashore. Fees charged, although "no artist will be turned away due to inability to pay." The shack, an historic structure built in the 1940s, overlooks the ocean. No running water or electricity; outdoor chemical toilet, propane stove and refrigerator. Access by foot or 4-wheel drive vehicle only. Limited interaction with park visitors expected during weekly ranger-led tours. Open to 2D visual artists, photographers, sculptors, performers, writers, video/filmmakers; preference for landscape painters. (visual, literary, performing, media arts)
http://www.nps.gov/volunteer/air.htm

Cummington Community for the Arts , RR 1, Box 145, Cummington, MA 01026 (413) 634-2172. Located in the Berkshires in Western MA, 3 hours from Boston and NYC. Artists of all disciplines receive private living space and studio. Apply at least 2 mos. in advance of desired dates. Children can be accomodated during summer months. Groups, such as performance ensembles, may apply. (visual, literary, performing arts)

Fine Arts Work Center , 24 Pearl St., Box 565, Provincetown, MA 02657 (508) 487-9960. 7 month session runs Oct. 1 through May 1; 20 fellows annually provided with live-in studio and stipend of $375/mo. Plus materials allowance of $75. Located on the tip of Cape Cod, near national seashore beaches and miles of dunes. Facilities include a woodshop, printshop with etching press and darkroom. (visual, literary arts)
http://www.fawc.org/

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Artist-in-Residence Program , 2 Palace Road, Boston MA 02115 (617) 566-1401. Housing, stipend, 150 sqaure foot studio, opportunities to perform or exhibit. Open to all artistic disciplines. Artists participate in the Museum's school partnership program, which helps connect younger people with art. Residencies of one year. (visual, literary, performing arts)
http://www.gardnermuseum.org

Margo-Gelb Shack , OCARC, 22 Nelson Ave. Provincetown, MA 02657. 2 week residencies from mid-May to mid-October on Cape Cod National Seashore. Operated by the Outer Cape Artists Residency Coalition, membership fee plus residency fees charged. No running water or electricity; outdoor toilet and hand pump; kerosene lamps. Artists give one public presentation during their stay. Open to 2D visual artists, photographers, sculptors, writers, video/filmakers. (visual, literary, media arts)
http://www.nps.gov/volunteer/air.htm

Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts , 23 Wauwinet Rd, Box 958, Nantucket, MA 02554 (508) 228-9248. Open year-round; fees charged; Open to artists in painting, sculpture, photography, fiber art, mixed media, new media, literature, music, interdisciplinary. 8 cottages. Spouses, partners, friends and/or collaborators allowed. Facilities include ceramics studio, darkrooms, library. (visual, literary, performing arts)
http://www.nisda.org/

Oak Bluffs Institute , PO Box 2322, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557 (508) 693-3342. In the planning stages; dedicated to development of African-American culture.
Peace Abbey , 2 N. Mason St., Sherborn, MA 01770. Artists and healers, 1 week or longer. (visual, literary, performing arts)

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , Radcliffe College, 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-8212. 1 yr. Residency for women artists at least 2 years out of graduate school; fellows receive studio space, stipend; 40 fellowships annually. (visual and literary arts, critics)
http://www.radcliffe.edu

Temporary Sculpture , c/o Brush with History, 256 Market St., Lowell, MA 01852 (617) 459-7819. Six week summer residencies for temporary sculpture installations. (visual arts)

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill , P.O. Box 756, Castle Rd., Truro, MA 02666.
Wellspring House , PO Box 2006, Ashfield, MA 01330. Retreat center in Massachusetts hills, 35 minutes from Northampton/Amherst, sheltered by towering spruce, secluded but in town. Private rooms, communal kitchen. April to December, $125/week. (literary, visual arts)
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Great Rivers Arts Institute , PO Box 639, Walpole, NH 03608 (603) 758-3638. Artists' Residencies in Patzcuaro, Mexico at Casa Don Miguel, a 250-year-old monastery. Private rooms, separate studios for visual artists; 2meals a day included. $1,600 per month; partial fellowships available. (visual, literary arts)
http://www.greatriverarts.org

MacDowell Colony, Inc. , 100 High St., Peterborough, NH 03458 (603) 924-3886. On 450 acres of woodlands and fields near Mt. Monadnock; 33 studios; residencies of no more than 8 weeks; 31 artists in residence in the summer and 22 in winter; fees are voluntary; darkrooms, 16mm editing suite, printmaking equipment available. (visual, literary, performing arts, architecture and design)
http://www.macdowellcolony.org

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site , AIR Program, RR 3, Box 73, Cornish, NH 03603. (603) 675-2175. One residency of 12 to 24 weeks, June to October. Housing in nearby apartment; works space in the historic Ravine Studio, located on park grounds. Tools and materials, as well as insurance, provided. Artist expected to keep regular hours, in which tourists can watch you work, and to conduct workshops. No work donation expected and no percentage on sales taken. Open to sculptors who do figurative or representational work suited to the lost wax casting techniques empoyed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. (visual arts)
http://www.nps.gov/volunteer/air.htm
 
RHODE ISLAND
AS220 , 115 Empire St., Providence, RI 02903 (401) 831-9327. 3-6 mo. residencies. AS220 is a 22,000 sq. ft. blg. that includes a cafe and performance space, computer lab, darkroom, screenprinting studio, video editing suite, 10 working studios, 4 galleries, 12 living/working studios. (performing, visual, literary arts)

Rhode Island Creative Arts Center , Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI 02809 (401) 255-2210. (visual arts)

Woonsocket Neigborhood Development Corporation (401) 762-0993. Supports year-long residencies by a single community-friendly professional artist (and family) with free rent in spacious 3-bedroom apartment, in exchange for 5/hours per week working with local kids. Woonsocket is a former mill city located in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, 20 minutes from Providence. All media welcome: visual arts, film, video, theater, computer art, storytelling, dance, poetry or other writers, folk arts, crafts. "We believe in the importance and transformative power of the arts as part of a comprehensive community revitalization effort," says Executive Director Joe Garlick.
http://www.wndc.org
 
VERMONT
The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, Inc. , PO Box 495, Marble Street, West Rutland, VT 05777 (802) 438-2097. A rehabilitated, extinct marble quarry in the Green Mountains in Central Vermont; no fees; artists purchase and prepare own food; 2 month residencies for artists working in stone carving; 2 artists at a time; year-round. (visual arts)
http://www.vermontel.com/~carving/

Compost Art Center , PO Box 265, Hardwick, Vermont (802) 472-9613. Residencies in an 1800s farmhouse on 25 rolling acres. Daily, weekly, or monthly rates. Spouse accomodations can be arranged. Ceramics studio, darkroom, 3500 sq. ft. of performance/exhibition space. Nightclub, restaurant and bar also on premises. (visual, performing, and literary arts)
http://www.compostartcenter.com

Dorset Colony House , PO Box 519, Dorset, VT 05251 (802) 867-2223. Up to 8 writers at a time; residencies from 1 week to several mos.; fees charged; writers must cook own meals and provide own food. Near the Green Mountains in Southern Vermont. (literary, performing, visual arts)
http://dorsettheatrefestival.com

The Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education , 392 Hall Dr., Townshend, VT 05353 (802) 365-4483. 200-year old former farm on 221 acres in the southeastern corner of the state. Residencies of one week to one month covers room and board, and takes place during two residency sessions: June 10- July 17 and July 29 - Sept. 18. Open to fiction and nonfiction writers, poets, playwrights, painters, performers, composers, photographers, sculptors, and other artists. (literary, performing, visual arts)
http://www.hallfarm.org

Kokoro Studio Retreat Center , RR 1, Box 192, Castleton, VT 05735. Facilities include: studios, Japanese bath, steam, sauna, massage, pond, waterfall, extensive stone yard. Resident artists, supportive critiques, small groups, or retreat options available. Lodging options vary from tent, tepee, lodge, or private cabins. Fee ranges from $20-85/night; residencies from 1 day to 1 month. (visual arts)

Vermont Carving Studio , PO Box 613, Proctor, VT 06765 (617) 894-9173. Studio spaces for sculptors working in marble, other stones, and wood. (visual arts)

Vermont Music and Arts Center , Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT 05851 (802) 626-9371. (visual, performing arts)

Vermont Studio Center , PO Box 613, Johnson, VT 05656 (802) 635-2727. 4-12 week residencies; fees charged, some financial support; up to 50 artists and writers per mo. Other services include library, slide showings, readings, art supply store, visiting artist series, fitness activities. Located in the heart of the Green Mtns. Access to all facilities at nearby Johnson State College for residents include sport, library, computer lab privleges. (visual and literary arts)
http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org

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