Creative Residency

Residency opportunity. Deadline: 2026-09-01

Type: Residency
Organizer: Bloedel Reserve
Deadline: 1 September 2026
Where: United States
Compensation: 1000 USD (Artist Stipend)
Disciplines: Acting, Animation, Architecture, Art Conservation, Art Education, Art History, Augmented Reality, Biology, Blacksmithing, Book Arts, Ceramics/Clay Arts/Pottery, Choreography, Computing, Costume/Fashion Design, Criticism, Dance, Digital Fabrication, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Ecology, Electronic Arts, Environmental Arts, Environmentalism/Conservation, Fiction, Film, Fine Metals/Jewelry, Glass Arts, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Industrial Design, Installation Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Journalism, Landscape Architecture, Literary Nonfiction, Literature, Mathematics, Mixed Media, Moving Image, Multimedia Arts, Music, New Genres, Nonfiction, Opera, Painting, Paper Arts, Performance Art, Philosophy, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Science, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Social Practice, Sound Art, Storytelling, Symphony, Textile & Fiber Arts/Weaving, Theater, Translation, TV + Radio, Urban Planning/Design, Virtual Reality, Visual Arts, Woodworking, Writing

About this opportunity

Bloedel Reserve offers a Creative Residency program providing selected artists and innovative thinkers a three-week stay on its 150-acre grounds. The program fosters creative thinking inspired by nature and explores the connection between humans and the environment, including a $1000 artist stipend. Applications for residencies in the following year are accepted annually between July 15 and September 1.

Who can apply

Applications will be accepted from July 15 - September 1, 2025.
Applicant submissions must demonstrate a strong connection to nature through inspiration, material use, or research focus.
Open to artists based anywhere in the world.
Any stage of career: Emerging, Mid-career, Established.