Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and some beyond with deadlines between Winter and Spring 2023.
Arctic blasts and ice storms. Record low temperatures. The tripledemic and fluvid.
That must mean that 2023 residency season is upon us. No, really.
It’s time to dream of the warmer seasons and apply for residencies across the Southwest region. Many of the artist opportunities on our handy list take place in summer and fall 2023—some in the most beautiful outdoor settings ever—with fast-approaching deadlines, including one with an application due today, February 6!
Once you’re done perusing and applying, you can score additional regional residency intel via Southwest Contemporary‘s previously published artist opportunities from winter 2022 and summer 2022.
Colorado Artist Residencies
Mountain Words Writer-in-Residence
Crested Butte, Colorado
This writers’ residency offers a month’s worth of quiet writing time in the gorgeous Rocky Mountain ski-resort town of Crested Butte. Residents present completed works and public readings at the Mountain Words Literary Festival, scheduled for May 26-28, 2023.
Deadline to apply: February 6, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: $5,000.
Length: May 1 to June 1, 2023.
Firehouse Art Center Artist Residency
Longmont, Colorado
The Firehouse offers a summer residency where selected artists are asked to work in the space for at least ten hours per week during open gallery hours. The residency is punctuated with a solo exhibition in the main gallery in September 2023 and an opportunity to guest curate a show in the south gallery. Selected artists are expected to schedule at least three public events, such as a workshop or artist talk.
Deadline to apply: February 15, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: project-specific; the artist fee is decided by the Firehouse exhibits committee.
Length: June to August 2023.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artists-in-Residence Program
Snowmass, Colorado
Anderson Ranch, located near Aspen, is currently accepting applications for fall 2023 and spring 2024 residencies for ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. The residency includes unlimited access to the studios and equipment, not to mention a beautiful setting.
Deadline to apply: February 19, 2023.
Application fee: $30.
Stipend: none, but a select group of the thirty-two residencies are fully funded fellowships awarded by a jury panel.
Program fee: fall residents pay a fee of $1,500 for ten weeks, and spring residents pay a fee of $750 for five weeks. It covers housing, studio space, and meals.
Length: ten weeks for fall residents, five weeks for spring residents.
The Wayfaring Band Artist-in-Residence Program
various locations
The Colorado-based band of travelers goes on tours and presents programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They offer one spot for each tour to an artist-in-residence, who participates in leadership curriculum alongside the leadership fellows and acts as a peer to band members with disabilities. In exchange for a full scholarship, the resident artist is required to produce an “ode to our adventure,” which can be original music, short films, stories, poems, performances, sculptures, or other creative reflections.
Deadline to apply: unspecified; applications are currently being accepted for the 2023 travel season.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: none.
Length: unspecified.
Nebraska Artist Residencies
Bemis Center Residencies
Omaha, Nebraska
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is currently accepting applications for five different 2024 residencies, including fall, spring, summer, sound art/experimental music, and an alumni residency. The residencies take place in a communal environment and include access to production spaces, a sculpture and ceramics facility, a music studio, and more.
Deadline to apply: March 31, April 14, or August 1, 2023, depending on the program.
Application fee: $15 for the alumni residency, $40 for the others.
Stipend: $1,000 per month plus a $750 travel stipend.
Length: varies depending on the residency.
Nevada Artist Residencies
Great Basin National Park Foundation – University of Nevada, Reno Artist-in-Residence Program
Baker, Nevada
This UNR-presented unique camping residency takes place in Great Basin National Park, located in central-eastern Nevada close to the Utah border. It’s open to visual artists, literary artists, musicians, and other media artists (such as performance, theater, dance, and composers) living in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Chosen artists are required to present a minimum of one public program in the park during the residency. Additionally, each artist, after returning home, is expected to present or engage in one public outreach program in their own community to talk up Great Basin National Park and their residency experience.
Deadline to apply: March 1, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: $500, in addition to a campsite and, if needed, camping equipment.
Length: two to four weeks between June and September 2023.
Great Basin National Park Darwin Lambert Artist-in-Residence Program
Baker, Nevada
A second Great Basin residency gives one artist or writer the opportunity to live and create in the national park. Selected artists are given rent-free, furnished housing (utilities included) within the park. In exchange, artists are expected to present one sixty-minute public program for every one and a half weeks of their stay, and donate an original artwork to Great Basin’s permanent museum.
Deadline to apply: March 1, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: none.
Length: two to three weeks, typically in September or October 2023.
Buffalo Creek Art Center Residency
Gardnerville, Nevada
Sculptors who make traditional figurative and abstract three-dimensional works in metal, ceramics, wood, stone, or mixed media are eligible to apply for this summer residency that’s located on a thirty-four-acre property at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Deadline to apply: ongoing.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: none, but residents are provided with free room and workspaces as well as access to shop equipment.
Length: June 1 through October 30, 2023. Residents can choose between four-, six-, or eight-week stints.
New Mexico Artist Residencies
Women’s International Study Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The WISC fellowship-in-residence program is open to women writers, artists, scholars, scientists, professionals, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are in the arts, sciences, cultural preservation, business, and philanthropy.
Deadline to apply: year-round; the next application deadline is March 1, 2023.
Application fee: $20.
Stipend: none.
Length: typically four weeks.
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
Roswell, New Mexico
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, established in 1967 by oil and gas businessman and artist Don Anderson, gives artists “the gift of time.” The program, which focuses on visual artists with studio practices, provides six fellows with a full year of rent-free housing, ample studio space, and a monthly stipend. Southwest Contemporary visited RAiR in fall 2022—meet some of the artists, learn more about the Roswell scene, and delve into some fun local history in a story by SWC arts editor Natalie Hegert.
Deadline to apply: March 15, 2023.
Application fee: $25.
Stipend: $1,100 per month, plus $100 for a spouse/partner and each child living with the grantee. The Fredrick Hammersley Foundation also provides an additional stipend of $250 per month for artists’ materials.
Length: one year.
Santa Fe Art Institute Sovereignty Residency
Santa Fe, New Mexico
SFAI’s themed residency tackles sovereignty, and caters the artist call “for artistic and creative engagement at the multiple intersections of sovereignty as it pertains to the individual, jurisdictions, systems, and society as a whole.” Applicants must be twenty-five and older, and SFAI accepts applications from individuals, collaborations, and families.
Deadline to apply: April 9, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: SFAI’s BIPOC and Indigenous award programs offer a $500 stipend per artist.
Length: one to three months.
Parse Seco
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Parse Seco, an experimental creative outlet and residency space north of Taos, offers thirty- to ninety-day residencies for “individual underrepresented artists, students, or artists who have not previously curated a show to critically engage issues of underrepresentation of specific race/demographics in art, controversial subject matter, and accessibility of art to all groups.”
Deadline to apply: ongoing.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: none.
Length: one to three months.
Oklahoma Artist Residencies
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Artists at this long-term Southwest-area residency are asked to commit to actualizing a proposed project during a three-year term living and working in Tulsa. Interested applicants should demonstrate their rigorous and innovative arts practice; discuss how making art in Tulsa feels meaningful; and propose a project that’s “forward-thinking, demonstrates impactful community engagement, appears achievable, and will significantly contribute to Tulsa’s arts identity.” Residents receive fully subsidized studio space in Tulsa’s Arts or Greenwood districts with access to shared facilities, including a ceramics studio with kilns, woodshop, media lab, roof terrace, performance rehearsal space, and meeting rooms with audio-video capabilities.
Deadline to apply: February 16, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: $150,000 over three award years in addition to $12,000 for yearly housing, $1,200 in yearly health and wellness, $1,200 in yearly studio assistance, and a one-time $1,500 relocation allowance.
Length: three years, from January 2024 through December 2026.
Texas Artist Residencies
University of Texas at Austin Dobie Paisano Fellowship Programs for Writers
Austin, Texas
The Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship provides scribes with a time-friendly, solitary, and comfortable writing experience in a fully-furnished house on a 250-acre ranch located approximately twenty minutes west of Austin. The opportunity is available for writers in any genre (particularly poetry, fiction, and general audience non-fiction) who are either a native Texan, have resided in Texas for at least three years at some time, or have published significant work with a Texas subject.
Deadline to apply: February 28, 2023.
Application fee: $20.
Stipend: $6,000 per month.
Length: typically four months, from September 1 to December 31, 2023.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Artist Residency Program
Houston, Texas
Artists working in wood, glass, metal, fiber, and clay are eligible to apply for this immersive program that requires its residents to work in their studios two days a week during HCCC’s public hours as well as opening their studios twice per week to the general public. Residents are afforded 24/7 access to the studios, receive cultural and professional development opportunities, and the chance to give an artist talk.
Deadline to apply: March 1, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: $1,000 per month that includes a housing and materials allowance.
Length: varies between three and twelve months, between September 2023 and August 2024.
Galveston Artist Residency
Galveston, Texas
GAR offers three artist residencies for ten months. Chosen residents are provided with a 500-square-foot studio, a furnished apartment a short walk away from the studio, a monthly $1,000 stipend, and a $500 travel allowance for arriving to and departing from the residency. The residency isn’t currently accepting applications from international applicants; however, international artists who are currently living, working, or studying in the United States and who also hold a valid visa are eligible.
Deadline to apply: March 25, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: $1,000 per month, and $500 for travel.
Length: ten months from October 2023 to July 2024.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park Artist in Residence
Salt Flat, Texas
The Guadalupe Mountains fall 2023 residency program is open to established and emerging professional writers, composers, and visual and performing artists. Proposals should be specific to Guadalupe Mountains National Park and focus on issues ranging from ecology and the environment to conservation and historic and/or cultural topics. Resident artists are encouraged to stay at the park for the full four weeks.
Deadline to apply: April 2, 2023.
Application fee: none.
Stipend: none.
Length: two to four weeks from mid-October to mid-November 2023.
Wyoming Artist Residencies
Ucross Residency Program
Sheridan, Wyoming
Ucross is currently accepting applicants for general studio residencies and Ford Family Foundation fellowships. The former is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams, while the latter is geared towards mid-career visual artists from Oregon and includes either a fall 2023 or spring 2024 residency. All selected residents are given uninterrupted time and space on a historic 20,000-acre ranch, a private studio, living accommodations, meals prepared by a professional chef, staff support, and a $1,000 stipend. The fall 2023 residents will also help usher in the residency program’s fortieth anniversary this fall.
Deadline to apply: March 1, 2023.
Application fee: $40.
Stipend: $1,000.
Length: August to early December 2023.
