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.

A local nonprofit focusing on community involvement in the arts.

Address: 3119 Denison Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: (216) 398 8556

ARTneo is the museum of Northeast Ohio art. Our mission is to preserve, research, collect, exhibit, document and educate about the significant visual art and architecture of Cleveland and the surrounding region.

Located on the lower lever of 78th Street Studios
1305 W. 80th St, Suite 016, Cleveland, OH 44102
216-227-9507

Making the art world accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

Artsy.net is a resource for students, teachers, art enthusiasts, curators and collectors. Artsy offers a variety of additional ways to learn about art and design, and its Art Genome Project maps the characteristics (“genes” as they call them) that connect artists, artworks, architecture, and design objects across history. There are currently over 1,000 characteristics in The Art Genome Project, including art historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities.

Classes offered are for children, teens and adults. They are visual-art based and include ceramics, watercolor, oil painting, jewelry, encaustic, graphic design, photography and more. 

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 Cleveland Digital Publishing Users Group (CDPUG) helps the area's top graphics and publishing professionals with education, news, technical support, networking and professional development. Monthly meetings, special interest groups, electronic and print publications, seminars, design competitions and much more contribute to the mission.

Address: P.O. Box 22076 | Cleveland, OH 44122
Email: membership@cdpug.org

Explore programs for toddlers through seniors. Classes, workshops, music lessons, lectures, camps, speakers series, special events and performances are all offered in a welcoming, friendly environment.
It’s a fun place to learn and to feel inspired. It’s a place to create friendships – for kids and adults. It’s value for time and money. It’s a real community asset that brings people together.
Learn more at this link: https://www.fairmountcenter.org/about-mission/

The Fine Arts Work Center, a non-profit enterprise, is devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoration of the year-round vitality of the historic art colony of Provincetown. Today the Fine Arts Work Center is a leading long-term residency program in the country for emerging artists and writers.

Address: 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Phone: (508) 487-9960
Email: general@fawc.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.

Landscape. Art. Neighborhoods. Development.

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.

"We believe in the power of African American art to revitalize and unify neighborhoods."

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.

Download a teachers guide to using architecture to create a design response to community trauma.

Free and open to all, to use think[box], start by viewing an Orientation Presentation, which explains general lab policies as well as how to get started using machines at the lab.  If you would like to bring a group or class to think[box], please read the Information for Groups and Classes.

 

The Valley Art Center energizes and encourages art appreciation in people of all ages and backgrounds through education, inspiration, and opportunities to experience the visual arts. They support art students and artists through quality curriculum and programming along with exhibition space. They promote the growth of each individual’s potential and the advancement of the arts in the community. 

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