The Rabbit Island Residency provides financial support, time, and pristine natural spaces to challenge creative practices in a wilderness environment. Artists live and work on the island for 2-4 weeks, engaging directly with the landscape, responding to notions of conservation, ecology, and sustainability via their research and cultural works. The residency reflects on the American continent’s four hundred year history of settlement and division of land and stems from the idea that in a developed society intelligent organization of wild spaces is one of the most civilized things we can pursue.

The island itself, an unsettled and undivided space, enables artists to present commentary on these ideas, creating interpretations and solutions to issues of global importance–climate change, loss of natural habitat, the value of pristine watersheds, the environmental implications of entrepreneurship, and so forth. Modern understanding of our natural reality, as well as our cause-and-effect relationship to it, dictates a need for principles worthy of our time. If artists do not create the work that defines this new space, who will? Art is perhaps the purest form of creation and serves fittingly as a symbol for all human constructions.

Applicants must apply for one or more specific residency periods in 2026—

Residency 1: June 23 – July 20

Residency 2: August 10 – September 2

Residency 3: September 7 – September 29

*   Our goal is to provide each residency with a generous unrestricted honorarium. Our anticipated honoraria per 2026 residency is $4,000 USD. Successful group applicatons will split a single residency award between members.
    
*   Residency administrative staff will provide a comprehensive orientation to living and working on the island, as well as local and island transportation.
    
*   The island has a sauna, kitchen, two sleeping areas, open-air studio spaces, tools, and a library of more than 400 books. All resources are available to residents.
    
*   A specially designed publication featuring the work and research of each resident is published annually by the Rabbit Island Foundation.
    
*   Rabbit Island shares the experiences and work of each resident to a global community through our social media channels and online archive.

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