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The most useful slices of the RMAR directory — funded programs, family-friendly residencies, programs by region and format. Each collection includes reviews, deadlines, and the financial details.
How the program works — money, format, who can attend.
When residency listings say "funded," they mean different things. Some cover room and board but expect you to pay your own travel. Some include a real stipend that offsets lost income. Some are residencies in name and fellowships in practice. This page collects the residencies that don't charge you to attend — either fully free (housing + studio + sometimes meals), or with a stipend large enough to make the math work for a working artist.
125 residencies · No fee. Either free or stipended.
The residency world inherited a model from the early 20th century — the modernist retreat, the lone genius in a cabin — and most programs are structurally inaccessible to working parents. A few aren't. This page collects residencies that have at least one of: childcare support, family housing, partner-welcoming policies, or short-enough formats (1–2 weeks) that caregivers can actually attend.
21 residencies · Childcare, family housing, partners welcome, or short formats.
Most artist residencies assume you can disappear for four to eight weeks. That assumption excludes the majority of working artists. This page collects programs that run on shorter formats — one to three weeks — where the math works for artists with day jobs, kids, freelance commitments, or other tethers to home.
35 residencies · 1–3 weeks. Lower lift, lower lost income, still real time.
Programs with real facilities for specific media.
Print is one of the disciplines where the program's equipment list matters more than the location. A residency without an etching press, a litho stone setup, or a screen-bay isn't a printmaking residency in any practical sense — it's a residency that happens to allow printmakers. This page collects the actual print residencies: dedicated facilities, working presses, master printer support.
22 residencies · Real print facilities, not just generic studios.
Most major artist residencies welcome writers, but the experience varies enormously. Some are silent-during-the-day retreats where writers thrive; some are heavily-attended craft schools where writers feel out of place. This page collects programs that have a real history of hosting writers — with cohort balance, communal-meal traditions, and the kind of quiet that lets a draft happen.
99 residencies · Programs with a real history of hosting writers.
Country and state-level collections.
Europe runs a different residency model than the US: smaller cohorts, longer histories, more variation in scale. The castle-tier programs (Civitella Ranieri, Bogliasco) sit alongside artist-run alternatives (Heima, Hrísey, Mas els Igols) and major-institution residencies (Camargo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, the Cité). This page collects them all.
60 residencies · Active programs across 30+ European countries.
If your idea of a great residency is somewhere on the US East Coast or in the Italian countryside, you're working from an incomplete map. The most interesting residency work happening right now is in Lagos, Jingdezhen, Bangkok, Sao Paulo, Tetouan, and a dozen other places American artists don't talk about. This page collects them.
30 residencies · Programs outside North America and Europe.
Painting needs space, good light, ventilation, and time. A painting residency is one that takes all four seriously: dedicated studios (not shared corners), generous square footage, north-facing windows where possible, and a length that lets you start, struggle through, and resolve a body of work.
140 residencies · Real studio space, not shared corners.
The US runs the largest concentration of artist residencies in the world — partly because the American philanthropic model has subsidized them heavily since the early 20th century, partly because the geography (mountains, coasts, prairie, desert) suits the rural-retreat model. This page collects every US program in the RMAR directory.
103 residencies · Programs in the US, sorted by deadline urgency.