Art Farm’s mission is to support artistic vision, which may be impractical, obscure, and independent of commercial recognition—where failing is no less welcomed than succeeding. To offer artists, writers, performers, and others: studios, time, and resources for pursuing their range of expression, for experimenting, for developing projects, but most of all, for distilling the promise and potential of their creative enterprise, while working and living in a rural environment. They offer an artist and writer residency.

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art offers residencies and exhibition opportunities. Their commitment to the belief that exceptional talent deserves to be supported is "achieved by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and a monthly stipend to artists who are awarded residencies. These artists come from around the world to work within a supportive community of like-minded people."

Address: 724 South 12th Street, Omaha, NE 68102
Phone: (402) 341-7130
Email: info@bemiscenter.org

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a nonprofit museum in Wisconsin that offers a number of residency programs, including a unique collaboration between artists and industry.

The Mattress Factory is a contemporary art museum that houses permanent collections as well as installations created by resident artists in a renovated industrial building. "The Mattress Factory’s artistic program is focused on the commission, presentation and collection of new site-specific installations that are developed in residency."

Address: 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4444
Phone: (412) 231-3169
Email: info@mattress.org

The McColl Center for Visual Art is a "nationally acclaimed contemporary art center dedicated to connecting art and artists with the community." Its artists in residence program provides its artists with time to research and develop work, while engaging communities through open studios and other programs of the center.

Address: 721 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 332-5535

The Millay Colony for the Arts offers residencies and workshops in a number of disciplines. The colony is located in New York about 2.5 hours away from NY city.

Neighborhood Connections is an innovative, nationally recognized community-building program established in 2003, with a mission to fuel the power of neighbors to create, together, an extraordinary world right where they live.

"Ox-Bow offers a wide range of opportunities for artists at all stages in their career. With year-round programs that cater to degree-seeking students, professional artists and those new to the field, Ox-Bow is a protected place where creative processes break-down, reform, and mature." Their mission is to serve as a haven for the creative process through instruction, example, and community. They offer residencies as well as core classes.

Address: 3435 Rupprecht Way, P.O. Box 216, Saugatuck, MI 49453
Phone: (269) 857-5811

This website, sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine, offers a wide range of resources for writers, including up-to-date databases to find markets, contests, competitions, conferences, workshops and residencies. Tools for writers include writing prompts, articles on craft, and information on literary agents.

At Ragdale, visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists find what they need to create important new work: time and space. Throughout the year, Ragdale offers readings, artist lectures, workshops, and special events designed to connect artists and the community of Lake Forest, Chicago, and beyond. For their residency program, Ragdale welcomes artists at all stages of their careers and seeks to create a mix of various experience levels in each group of residents. Through a competitive application process, Ragdale offers residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists. Those working in sound, performance, choreography, or combinations of disciplines are also encouraged to apply under the Interdisciplinary category.

Address: 1260 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Phone: (847) 234-1063

Skowhegan, an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Thurber House (the home of humorist, author, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber) is a non-profit literary center and Thurber museum. Their mission is to celebrate the written word for the education and entertainment of the broadest possible audience and to continue Thurber’s legacy of humor. Programs include the Thurber Prize for Humor, the only such recognition of humor writing in the country; residencies; author readings; and writing classes.

Address: 7 Jefferson Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 464-1032

The Vermont Studio Center supports "artists and writers by providing studio residencies in an inclusive international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form."

Address: 80 Pearl Street P.O. Box 613, Johnson, Vermont 05656
Phone: (802) 635-272

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild hosts the Byrdcliffe Art Colony. The colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York. The residency is for artistic excellence of composers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, visual artists and writers.

Founded in 1900 by the financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, herself a poet, Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.