The Brown University Fellowship, which was established by Joan and Pablo Sorensen, is awarded by Brown University. We anticipate giving The Brown University Fellowship in 2023, as long as Brown University identifies an individual to receive this award. The funds for this fellowship are permanently part of Haystack's endowment funds and are intended for a current undergraduate or graduate student in the Art Department at Brown University. The fellowship will provide tuition, room, and board with up to $500 in travel assistance, or related shop fees, for the selected student. That is, Haystack covers the fees for tuition, room, and board and, in addition, the award recipient may receive up to $500, when on campus and at the end of a session, to put towards travel reimbursement and any shop fees incurred during the two-week workshop. Brown will choose the student and provide Haystack with the student’s name and contact information on or before January 15th in any given year.

Haystack

The Yale Norfolk School of Art, established in 1948, is an intensive six week undergraduate summer residency program for rising seniors.

Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal, the Yale Norfolk School of Art co-directors, just led the 2022 session after a pause. It accommodated 22 students who will live in cottages on The Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate (the campus) and work in the newly renovated Art Barn. Only students who are planning to graduate in 2024 are eligible to be nominated for the program. Students who will have graduated by 2023 are not eligible to apply. Students will follow a curriculum of Yale College art courses including Critical Studies, Advanced Image Making, and Senior Studio. Students are given individual studio spaces as well as access to digital printers, computers and some basic traditional printmaking facilities.

The resident faculty for 2022 will be Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal, joined by four Teaching Fellows selected from graduates of Yale’s MFA program and two coordinators chosen from presently enrolled Yale MFAs.

Brown will nominate three juniors to apply.

Yale Norfolk

Anderson Ranch’s Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residents have access to world-class facilities and studio time, free from everyday pressures. Residents can pursue interdisciplinary projects among a community of working artists, and gain feedback from prominent Visiting Artists and Critics. The Ranch setting is specifically crafted to aid artists in the production of their work. The residency is designed to allow artists to take risks and pursue new projects and ideas. Residents will be provided housing, studio space and meals. Residencies are offered in ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Fall residents pay a fee of $1,500 for the 10 weeks at the Ranch. Spring residents pay a fee of $750 for the five weeks at the Ranch. A select group of the 32 residencies are fully funded fellowships awarded by the jury panel. Residencies are offered during Spring and Fall terms each year.

Anderson Ranch

There are residencies worldwide, but only a few may meet your expectations or match your interests. If you find you thrive in the few pockets of quiet places left in this world, or need the oscillating variety of social contact and interaction, or a balance of both, then take a stroll through some of Art Farm’s web pages to see if it seems worth a try.

There are ten studios, which might be called, 'permanent': The Granary, Lone Pine-West, District 62 (formerly a rural schoolhouse), Pig Pottery (ceramics), The White Annex, The Thinking Hut, The Victoria Suites 1 and 2, The Bell Barn, The High-Rise, and The Barn Loft. This list ignores the numerous ephemeral on-demand studio spaces created each year to meet a variety of needs, as well as using any empty room. Most studios are 400-500 square feet in size, with a few near 600 square feet. All studios, excluding The Thinking Hut, have 110-volt electrical power, with 220-volt in some, and four studios have plumbing (sink only). If studios feel too small, you can choose to work on the outside of them or in the 15 acres surrounding for environmental/permanent sculpture, interactive performances, or temporary installations.

Ant Farm

For over two decades, MASS MoCA has been one of the nation’s most productive venues for nurturing and creating new art — especially art which requires sophisticated equipment, generous spaces, and extended time — by offering excellent infrastructure and top-notch professional support and facilities. Over 500 artists have participated in extensive artist-in-residence and technical workshops including Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, William Kentridge, Helga Davis, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne/Fatboy Slim/Annie B. Parson, and many others.

In response to the new needs of artists in the wake of COVID-19, MASS MoCA has committed to dramatically expand our residency program over the coming year, providing time and space for artists to explore and create. Stay tuned for behind-the-scenes glimpses into the art-making process as we redouble our commitment to artists during this time of crisis.

MASS MoCA

Mildred's Lane is a 94+-acre project site in the Pennsylvania woods on the Upper Delaware River. It is an ongoing collaboration with Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett with their son Grey Rabbit Puett. A landscape built– by and with– friends and colleagues applying new ways of thinking-doing-making. Artists from around the world convene at Mildred's Lane seasonally, coevolving pedagogical strategies around contemporary topics that concern us. Collectively, we are practicing social engagement in every aspect of life centered around domesticity.

Mildred's Lane

Join us at Ox-Bow for a restorative winter session! This winter we are offering two-week, for-credit, in-person and online classes in a range of topics including ceramics, weaving, painting and drawing, art and tech, and science.

On campus, winter is a great time to enjoy Ox-Bow’s landscape, live and work in a small community of artists, and to enjoy quiet, uninterrupted time for making.

Upon completing a two-week course for credit, students will receive 3 credits. Students enrolled in in-person classes will reside on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan and enjoy 24/7 access to the studios, delicious meals prepared daily, and discussions with a small community of peers. A class at Ox-Bow fulfills a portion of SAIC’s off-campus study requirements.

If you can’t join us on campus, consider enrolling in one of our online classes. Ox-Bow online classes meet Monday - Saturday during the session via Zoom and Google Classroom.

Ox-Bow

For over seven decades, Skowhegan has offered artists the opportunity to engage fully with their studio practice, with their peers, and with distinguished faculty and mentors in its nine-week intensive & residential program. The experience of living and working exclusively alongside other artists has proven to be transformative time and time again. Skowhegan’s 350-acre rural campus, the dedication of its staff to supporting the creative process, and the diverse community of artists who gather as participants & faculty each summer serve as catalysts for expansive thinking, material experimentation, and a broadened perspective on the world from which we all derive our creative work.

Skowhegan

The Wassaic Project envisions a community in the Hamlet of Wassaic and its surrounding region that is socially inclusive, generous, cooperative, and economically vibrant.

We engage in a collaborative effort with members of our community to develop programs that are creative, experimental, and accessible across the economic spectrum.

We strive to be actively anti-racist and to have diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as an integral part of our programs and initiatives. We will continually evaluate, solicit feedback, and evolve our efforts to ensure their effectiveness.

We build local pride and community vitality by an informed sense of the past and a clear, contemporary, innovative, and compassionate look toward the future.

We foster the youth in our community and help them realize their full potential.

We aim to be financially stable with a creative staff and multiple partners — nonprofit, public, and private.

It is our hope that the work that we do in Wassaic will be shared nationwide and serve as a toolkit for community revitalization through the arts and the spirit of generosity. Above all else, we honor and respect our community.

Wassaic Project

The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Critical Studies Program, and Curatorial Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.

Each year fifteen students are selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the Curatorial Program, and six in the Critical Studies Program. Curatorial and critical studies students are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in recognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and concludes at the end of the following May. Many of the participants are enrolled at universities and art schools and receive academic credit for their participation, while others have recently completed their formal studies.

Whitney ISP