artist residency

Fernland Studios’ artist residencies provide people with time, financial support, and a network to honor how their work contributes to a larger body of activism, artistry, community, and research. This year’s session will run remotely on Fridays from June 14 to August 2.

This eight-week remote residency offers creative and ecological dreamers the opportunity to engage in integrative conversations centering on rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity. We invite people to breathe, aspire, and dream in the spaces they manifest at the intersections of art, ecology, and education.

We encourage artists from all stages of their practice to apply their creative medium (including but not limited to essay, film, garment, illustration, sonic arts, photo, poem, and video) to communicate about an aspect of ecological relationships. Residents can share their work at a future Fernland Studios workshop, artist talk, or speaker session.

Our residency includes speaker sessions with artists, activists, and academics dedicated to illuminating creative ecological justice—or the use of art to heal our spirits, ecologies, and communities—in their work. Speaker sessions are once a week for two hours on Fridays. Fernland will also host a weekly work session for residents to meet, discuss projects, and work through their ideas together.

Programming Expectations:

Participants must commit to joining all speaker sessions unless an emergency arises or you’ve disclosed a pre-planned event. If you’re unable to join a session, you need to provide 24-hour notice if possible. Participants agree that work shared in workshops is confidential and will not be shared or discussed outside the residency without their permission. Participants agree not to share any portions of the recording sessions without permission.

Participants must inform Fernland Studios how the funds were used within a year of funding. This information will provide Fernland Studios with a better understanding of supporting other participants interested in our work. We encourage participants to share their work with Fernland once programming concludes so we can continue to learn how to support your work and work in conversation with you.

Fernland Studios reserves the right to remove anyone from the residency sequence whose actions are detrimental to staff and participants. We encourage you to inform Fernland’s staff if you witness harm being done to a fellow participant or yourself.

All participants must agree to these expectations in the application process.