Our latest roundup of Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming, with deadlines in September, October, and November 2024.
It’s still hot as hell, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about your 2025 plans! Enter our quarterly roundup of artist residency opportunities. This list includes Southwest regional residencies taking place next year, with deadlines falling in September, October, and November 2024. You can explore more of our residency roundups here.
Colorado Artist Residencies
Green Box Artist in Residence
Green Mountain Falls, Colorado
Green Box Arts is located in the foothills of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs on a campus dotted with permanent and temporary large-scale art installations—including a James Turrell Skyspace. In this idyllic setting, Greenbox invites six to eight artists per year to spend a month developing or creating new work. This residency is open to national and international artists, and all resident artists are expected to participate in community engagement activities, such as classes, performances, or open studios.
Deadline to apply: applications for 2025 residencies will open in September of 2024. (In 2023, the deadline to apply was October 15, 2023.)
Housing: provided.
Stipend: $9,000 for individual artists, $12,000 for artist duos, $15,000 for trios.
Length: one month.
Land Line: Denver Botanic Gardens’ Artist Residency Program
Denver, Colorado
The Denver Botanic Gardens’ artist residency program invites artists to immerse themselves in the landscapes and flora of the garden’s collections to create artworks that “explore nature and the relationship between humans and the natural world.” While artists are required to visit the garden and spend time on-site, they are expected to create work in their own studios in this unique low-residency format. Artists also have access to garden staff members, whose specialized knowledge spans “horticulture, botany, agriculture, digital media, art history, mycology,” and more.
Deadline to apply: October 15, 2024.
Housing: artists are responsible for their own housing and travel.
Stipend: $3,000.
Length: determined by the residency and the artist.
Nevada Artist Residencies
Great Basin National Park Artist-in-Residence
Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Great Basin National Park encompasses more than 77,000 acres of wilderness in eastern Nevada. Home to dark, star-gazy skies, ancient bristlecone pines (some of the oldest organisms on this planet), and stalactite-rich caves, there is no shortage of inspiring splendors for artists who don’t mind getting a bit rustic and very remote (the nearest amenities are seventy miles away in Ely, Nevada).
Deadline to apply: applications for 2025 residencies will open in fall of 2024. (In 2023, the deadline to apply was October 15, 2023.)
Housing: lodging in park housing is provided during the fall and winter residencies. The summer residency is a camping residency with most camping gear provided.
Stipend: none.
Length: two to three weeks.
New Mexico Artist Residencies
Keshet Makers Space Experience
Keshet Center for the Arts, Albuquerque
Here’s one for the choreographers. Keshet Center for the Arts in Albuquerque has ambitious programming that spans education, entrepreneurship, juvenile justice, policy advocacy, and more. One of those programs is their Keshet Makers Space Experience, which provides dancemakers with “access to rehearsal space, peer movement classes, arts business workshops, and the New Mexico skies” during a ten-day residency.
Deadline to apply: applications for the 2025 Makers Space Experience will be open September 15–October 15, 2024.
Housing: provided.
Stipend: none.
Length: ten days.
Women’s International Study Center Fellowships
Women’s International Study Center, Santa Fe
Acequia Madre House was built in 1926 by Eva Scott Fényes, her daughter Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, and her granddaughter Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo. Today, it houses their vast collection of objects, photographs, books, archived materials—and the Women’s International Study Center. WISC offers fellowships-in-residence to women working in many different fields, from filmmaking and entrepreneurship to musical composition and the sciences, giving them focused time to further a project “relevant to the interests and experiences of women.”
Deadline to apply: November 1, 2024.
Housing: provided.
Stipend: none.
Length: one month.
Texas Artist Residencies
Artpace Texas Open Call
Artpace San Antonio
For our Texas friends, only: Each of Artpace’s biannual International Artist-in-Residence programs includes one Texas-based artist, one artist working nationally, and one international artist—a sure-fire recipe for stimulating creative output. The Texas Open Call is Artpace’s annual call for Texas-based artists to throw their hat in the ring for the residency, as well as for studio visits with curators participating in Artpace’s Curatorial Residency program (the other resident artists are selected by guest curators, and are not open to applications). Each residency culminates in an eighteen-week exhibition at Artpace.
Deadline to apply: September 30, 2024.
Housing: provided.
Stipend: $6,000, a production budget up to $10,000, and travel expenses.
Length: eight weeks.
Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency
Corsicana, Texas
Open to national and international applicants, each term of the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency hosts two artists and one writer in Corsicana’s historic downtown fifty miles south of Dallas. While residents get to spend time at 100 West, a restored 1890s former Odd Fellows hall, they can also enjoy other Corsicana spots that the organization is reinvigorating, including an independent bookstore, a window-front gallery, and a home dedicated to self-directed retreats for residency alumni.
Deadline to apply: September 1, 2024.
Housing: provided.
Stipend: none.
Length: two months.
Wyoming Artist Residencies
Teton Art Lab Uncommon Art Residency
Jackson, Wyoming
If you are hearing the call of the wild, spend one to three weeks at the doorstep of Grand Teton National Park in Jackson, Wyoming. At Teton Art Lab’s Uncommon Art Residency, residents receive free accommodations at the retro-stylish Anvil Hotel, and access to studio space at Jackson’s Center for the Arts.
Deadline: September 16, 2024.
Housing: provided.
Stipend: $200 per week, and $200 in dining credit at the hotel restaurant.
Length: one to three weeks.
