Summer Residency 2027
Know before you apply
- Artists comfortable with complete solitude
- Practices engaging nature and ecology
- Artists seeking undisturbed experimentation time
- No meals provided, kitchen available
- Fixed two-week stay, no flexibility
- No staff or other artists on site
The artist retreat at the Montello Foundation is meant to be a retreat from the urban environment. It will provide a new perspective for residents’ work and give residents space and time for undisturbed experimentation and reflection for two weeks.
The idea behind the retreat is that you are in this amazing desert landscape by yourself.
It's all yours, and you are part of all what is around you.
There is no direct interaction with other humans, no staff or other artists, you don't have to be social or not, decide whether you go to your room or chat all night. You focus on being social using your art you work on while you are there, or do sketches to work on it afterwards, or you can just relax from working and spend two week in the hammock. (We are sure you will have at least one great thought and will act upon it afterwards.)
Your social responsibility is with the audience of your work, not the immediate humans around you. What's important is to get the message out: Nature is a fragile thing and we have to take care of it.
So, no meals are provided, but you will have a fine little kitchen with a fridge.
A residency is always for two weeks.