From Marfa to Corpus Christi and beyond, discover twelve residencies for artists and writers across Texas, with details on deadlines, fees, housing, and stipends.
To call Texas big is an understatement. If you’re looking for artist residencies in the largest state in the continental U.S., you’d better be ready to roam. The possibilities are endless: you might land in a national park under some of the darkest skies in the nation, at a museum Donald Judd founded in Marfa, in an 1890s Odd Fellows hall, or even on an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Here are twelve art and writing residencies that offer time, space, and, in many cases, money! Deadlines fall throughout the year, so check back often.
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Artpace International Artist-in-Residence: Texas Open Call
Artpace / San Antonio, Texas
Artpace’s residency program hosts three artists at once: one from Texas, one from elsewhere in the U.S., and one international. A guest curator selects the national and international residents, while Texas artists apply through the Texas Open Call. The resident lives in a furnished apartment on site and works in a studio that doubles as an exhibition space. The eight-week stay ends with a show that stays up for about eighteen weeks. Applicants must have lived in Texas for at least one year.
Deadline to apply: The Texas Open Call usually opens in mid-July and runs for six weeks.
Application fee: Waived for the 2028 Texas Open Call.
Housing: Provided.
Stipend: $6,000, plus a production budget of up to $10,000 and travel.
Length: Eight weeks.
Big Bend National Park Artist in Residence
National Park Service / Big Bend National Park, Texas
West Texas sprawls far and wide, and the imperiled landscape of Big Bend covers 800,000 acres of desert, mountains, and river canyon. With some of the darkest night skies in the national park system, you can see the Milky Way from the residency housing. Artists working in any medium stay in park housing at Panther Junction for two or four weeks, in one of six summer sessions. Each resident leads one public program for visitors.
Deadline to apply: Dates for 2027 have not been posted. (For 2026, applications were accepted December 1, 2025, to January 31, 2026.)
Application fee: None.
Housing: Provided.
Stipend: None.
Length: Two or four weeks, May through July.
Chamizal National Memorial Artist-in-Residence
National Park Service / El Paso, Texas
This memorial, located in El Paso, marks the peaceful settlement of a border dispute between the United States and Mexico that lasted about a century. The residency is for established artists, writers, musicians, and performers whose work connects to the site’s themes: diplomacy, the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico), and life on the border. Residents commit at least eighty-five hours over two months to their own work and public programs. They can use the memorial’s 500-seat theater and gallery.
Deadline to apply: January 1 to 31, 2027, for spring and fall 2027 residencies.
Application fee: None.
Housing: Not provided.
Stipend: $2,000.
Length: Two months.
Chinati Foundation Artists in Residence
Chinati Foundation / Marfa, Texas
Donald Judd founded this museum on a former army post at the edge of Marfa, in the high desert of West Texas. Chinati’s residency hosts four to six artists a year. Each one receives an apartment on the museum grounds, a studio in downtown Marfa, and access to the collection and archive. Many residents end their stay with an open studio, a performance, or an exhibition. Open calls happen every two years.
Deadline to apply: The next open call, for the 2028 cohort, has not been scheduled.
Application fee: None.
Housing: Provided.
Stipend: $4,000 for honorarium, travel, and art materials.
Length: Two months.
Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency
Corsicana, Texas
Residents live and work in 100 West, a former Odd Fellows lodge from the 1890s in downtown Corsicana, about fifty miles south of Dallas. The building is almost unchanged. Artist studios are on the third floor, and an intaglio press and a wood shop are available. Each term ends with a public showing of new work. Since 2012, the program has hosted 179 artists and writers from across the U.S. and eighteen countries.
Deadline to apply: Applications for 2028 residencies open July 1, 2027. (The deadline for 2027 residencies was September 1, 2026.)
Application fee: $30. Accepted residents also pay a $200 administration fee.
Housing: Provided.
Stipend: None. Studio, lodging, and public programming are covered.
Length: Two months.
Dobie Paisano Fellowships
University of Texas at Austin / Austin, Texas
Writer and folklorist J. Frank Dobie bought a ranch above Barton Creek in 1959. For more than fifty years, it has given writers a peaceful place to live and work. The University of Texas at Austin offers two fellowships, one in fall and one in spring, for writers in any genre, from poetry and fiction to nonfiction. Fellows live in a furnished ranch house about twenty minutes from Austin.
Deadline to apply: January 15, 2027, for the fall 2027 and spring 2028 fellowships.
Application fee: $20 for first-time applicants.
Housing: Provided.
Stipend: $6,000 per month.
Length: Four months (fall) or three months (spring).
Galveston Artist Residency
Galveston Artist Residency / Galveston, Texas
This residency occupies two rebuilt industrial buildings at the edge of downtown Galveston, encompassing studios, courtyards, and a gallery. Three visual artists a year get ten months of uninterrupted studio time. Each has a studio of about 500 square feet and a furnished apartment a short distance away. The program ends with a group exhibition. Applicants must live in the U.S. or already hold a U.S. visa.
Deadline to apply: The open call for 2027 to 2028 will be announced in January 2027. (The previous deadline was March 28, 2026.)
Application fee: None.
Housing: Provided, with bills paid.
Stipend: $1,400 per month, plus $500 for travel at the start and end of the residency.
Length: Ten months, October through July.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Artist Residency
HCCC / Houston, Texas
Five to ten craft artists a year work in studios at this center in Houston’s Museum District. The 200-square-foot studios are open to public view, so visitors can watch the work happen. Residents work in wood, glass, metal, fiber, clay, or mixed media, with studio access at all hours and electric kilns on site. A separate three-month residency, run with Houston Center for Photography, is for artists who combine craft and photography; its next cycle has not been announced.
Deadline to apply: December 1, 2026, to February 1, 2027, for 2027 to 2028 residencies.
Application fee: None.
Housing: Not provided. The stipend includes a small housing and materials allowance.
Stipend: $1,000 per month.
Length: Three to twelve months.
Laguna Madre Field Station Artist-in-Residence
The Art Center of Corpus Christi + Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi / Corpus Christi, Texas
The first five days of this residency take place on an island in the Laguna Madre, at a research station you can only reach by boat. This unique off-grid station runs on solar power and has a gravity shower, a propane stove, and a composting toilet. Artists then get a week of studio time at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, which presents the finished work in a solo exhibition. The Art Center runs the program with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Deadline to apply: March 12, 2027, for South Texas residents; May 14, 2027, for national applicants.
Application fee: None.
Housing: Provided.
Stipend: $2,000 for South Texas residents; $4,000 for national artists.
Length: Two weeks.
MFAH Core Residency Program
Glassell School of Art + Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Houston, Texas
The Core Program has run since 1982 at the Glassell School of Art, part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is for emerging artists and critical writers, and it lasts almost two years. Up to four fellows get a private studio or office, weekly seminars and public lectures, use of the Glassell studios and two research libraries, and a yearly exhibition. International applicants can apply.
Deadline to apply: Applications open November 2, 2026, and close January 8, 2027.
Application fee: $12.
Housing: Not provided.
Stipend: $100,000 over two years, plus up to $3,000 per year toward health insurance.
Length: Twenty-three months.
New Work Development Artist Residency
Texas A&M / College Station, Texas
Texas A&M’s College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts hosts this nine-week residency on its College Station campus. It is for artists who treat their practice as research and want to develop a new piece. Residents can use rehearsal and performance spaces, recording studios, art studios, and technology labs. The residency ends with a public presentation. International artists get visa support.
Deadline to apply: The call for 2027 will be posted in December 2026.
Application fee: None.
Housing: Provided: an on-campus two-bedroom apartment.
Stipend: $10,000 for living expenses and project materials.
Length: Nine weeks.
Wild Basin Artist in Residence
Austin, Texas
Wild Basin is a 227-acre nature preserve in the Texas Hill Country, managed by St. Edward’s University. Seven women founded it in 1976 as Austin’s first nature preserve, and it protects habitat for the endangered golden-cheeked warbler. Two Austin-area artists a year, one in spring and one in fall, work on site at least five hours a week. They lead two public programs, at least one for K-12 students, donate one piece, and show their work in the visitor gallery.
Deadline to apply: October 31, 2026, for spring and fall 2027 residencies.
Application fee: None listed.
Housing: Not provided.
Stipend: $600, plus a $500 materials budget.
Length: Three months, in spring or fall.
