artist residencies: may-october 2025
Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat in Laceyville, PA, offers visual artists, writers, and composers, and instrumentalists a quiet country setting for residencies to focus on their creative endeavors. Spaces are available from mid-May to mid-September. Soaring Gardens has no fees, makes no demands, and there are no intrusions from the administration—only the studios, gardens, deer, other creatures, and time.
The residency is located in a farmhouse with an adjacent studio building and in a small nearby church. At any time, there are only a few artists in residence, usually four or five residents at the farmhouse and one at the church. Since residents share the living spaces, we encourage artists to apply as a group (a combination of artistic disciplines is fine), although applications from individuals are also welcome.
Residents are encouraged to have a car to get to Soaring Gardens. There is no public transportation close by. However, transportation will be provided to and from nearby cities for arrival and departure at Soaring Gardens, and to help run some errands during their stay as needed. With the exception of a weekly communal dinner, artists are expected to shop, cook, and clean up after themselves; a gardener maintains the grounds. As the purpose of the residency is to provide time for undisturbed work, no children, pets, or overnight visitors are permitted.
Soaring Gardens offers two locations to stay during your residency. The church provides a more intimate, private experience, with no more than two residents staying there at a time. The farmhouse offers a more communal atmosphere, with four to five residents typically staying there and utilizing the studio building next door.
The residency sessions for the 2025 season are as follows:
4/22 - 5/9: Session I
5/25 - 6/13: Session II
6/15 - 7/4: Session III
7/6 - 7/25: Session IV
7/27 - 8/15: Session V
8/17 - 9/5: Session VI
9/7 - 9/26: Session VII (Church) - single resident
9/28 - 10/17: Session VIII (Church) - single resident
10/19 - 10/31: Session IX (Church) - single resident