CURATED LIST:

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES FOR WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS

RESIDENCIES

Residencies provide artists in various stages of their careers with an opportunity to dedicate themselves whole heartedly to their practice in a supportive and structured creative environment. These opportunities are especially crucial for women artists, who are 1) relegated to the margins of opportunities in the art world due to gender-based discrimination and 2) often find themselves occupying caregiving roles in their families and communities at large. Find below a curated list of grants and residency opportunities specifically created for women visual artists. Here you will also find information about residency opportunities for artist-parents/  caregivers. Click on each title to be directed to each residency program’s website for more information about a specific opportunity. NOTE: The opportunities below accompanied by an asterix (*) provide a stipend to support childcare costs at artists’ home-base.

RESIDENCIES FOR WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS

Barossa Women’s Artist Residency Program (Australia)

The Beautiful Project* (USA)

  • Open to Black women and nonbinary artists

!Brava! For Women in the Arts (USA)

Hosking Houses Trust (UK)

  • Open to older women artists based in the UK

Julia Zagar Residency* (USA)

  • For female artists working in handcraft and folk art tradition with a focus on Mexican and South American artists

Loretto Residencies at the Kentucky Foundation for Women* (USA)

  • Open to feminist artists who are residents of Kentucky

Re(Emerge) Women’s Artist Program (Australia)

Women Artists in Residency at Schwanenwerder Berlin (Germany)

Women’s Studio Workshop (USA)

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Anonymous Was A Woman

Leeway Foundation*

  • For cis-women, trans women, and gender non-conforming artists

Women’s Studio Workshop

Barbara Deming Memorial Fund*

  • For women writers and visual artists who make feminist-centered work

ARTIST-PARENT/CAREGIVER RESIDENCIES

The following residencies provide child-care, family living space, and some prepared meals for artist-parents/ caregivers and their children.

Artist Residency in Motherhood (USA)

Cow House Parenting Artist Residency (USA)

Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works (USA)

Elsewhere Studios (USA)

Franconia Sculpture Park (USA)

Good Hart Artist Residency* (USA)

Hermitage Artist Retreat (USA)

  • While this residency is not explicitly “parent friendly,” they offer flexible short-term residencies and stipends to artists that want to attend the program with their families.

Interlude Artist Residency (USA)

Kala Art Institute (USA)

Marble House Project (USA)

McColl Center for Art & Innovation (USA)

Santa Fe Art Institute (USA)

Stoneleaf Retreat Mama Residency (USA)

Wassaic Project (USA)