Community Rankings
Top-Rated Residencies
Ranked by average rating from verified alumni reviews. The more reviews, the more reliable the ranking.
1
Lighthouse Works
Fishers Island, NY, United States
visual art / writing / film
5.00
11 reviews
2
Green Olive Arts
Tetouan, Morocco
visual art / interdisciplinary / writing
5.00
5 reviews
3
Centre Pompadour: A Laboratory for Neo-Feminism
Ercourt, Baie de Somme, France
visual art / writing / interdisciplinary
5.00
5 reviews
4
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA, United States
visual art / writing / poetry
5.00
4 reviews
5
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Stuttgart, Germany
visual art / writing / music
5.00
3 reviews
6
Tides Institute & Museum of Art StudioWorks AiR Program
Eastport, Maine, USA, United States
visual art / interdisciplinary
5.00
1 review
7
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE, United States
visual art / sculpture / new media
4.80
10 reviews
8
Chalk Hill Artist Residency
Healdsburg, California, United States
visual art / interdisciplinary
4.76
25 reviews
9
Epicenter's Frontier Fellowship
Green River, Utah, United States
interdisciplinary / social practice / design
4.76
17 reviews
10
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia
Venice, Italy
printmaking / drawing / painting
4.68
77 reviews
11
Marble House Project
Dorset, VT, United States
visual art / writing / music
4.67
3 reviews
12
ACRE
Steuben, WI, United States
visual art / interdisciplinary / music composition
4.63
74 reviews
13
La Macina di San Cresci
Greve in Chianti, Italy
interdisciplinary / visual art / writing
4.57
7 reviews
14
MacDowell
Peterborough, NH, United States
visual art / writing / music composition
4.56
41 reviews
15
The Anderson Center
Red Wing, MN, United States
visual art / writing / music composition
4.56
9 reviews
16
Art Farm
Marquette, NE, United States
visual art / writing / music
4.55
11 reviews
17
Mas els Igols
Torrelles de Foix, Barcelona, Spain
interdisciplinary / visual art
4.50
12 reviews
18
Fire Island Artist Residency
Fire Island, NY, United States
visual art / writing / performance
4.50
8 reviews
19
Mudhouse Residency
Crete, Greece
Interdisciplinary / Visual Art / Painting
4.50
8 reviews
20
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
Madison, ME, United States
painting / sculpture / video
4.48
60 reviews
21
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Nebraska City, NE, United States
visual art / writing / music composition
4.46
161 reviews
22
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency
Saugatuck, MI, United States
painting / ceramics / sculpture
4.45
20 reviews
23
NARS Foundation
Brooklyn, NY, United States
visual art / painting / sculpture
4.33
6 reviews
24
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Amsterdam, Netherlands
visual art / interdisciplinary
4.33
9 reviews
25
McColl Center for Art + Innovation
Charlotte, NC, United States
visual art / interdisciplinary / new media
4.33
3 reviews
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