“If you need to rest, let the earth hold you.”
— Lama Rod Owens
What is an arts residency?
According to the Artist Communities Alliance, ARTS RESIDENCIES provide artists, scholars, educators and other creative professionals with time, space and resources to work, individually or collectively, on the research and development of their practice.
An artist residency offers the recipient the opportunity to experience what it would be like to work as a paid artist, before their career has evolved to that point. The experience of being treated like a working artist creates confidence and gives the artist a career boost. Many artists and writers get their first real start through a creative residency.
404 Found Residency
The 404 FOUND Arts Residency will give artists a nice comfortable place to stay and a work area with everything needed to thrive as artists, in a beautiful setting immersed in nature. The artists will be supported financially to be able to take off to 2-8 weeks from their regular lives in order to come to the residency and do their creative work such as fine art, music composition, choreography, writing or editing, with a goal of generating creative capital to advance their artistic careers.
Our Why?
We seek to create spaces of creativity and healing that marginalized communities do not usually have access to because we all deserve love, rest, and care so that our creative minds may flourish and offer us a new opportunity to experience freedom and happiness.
The residency gives the artist a chance to produce work that can be published or exhibited after their stay. It’s a way to cultivate a body of intellectual property (IP) to be able to move forward in their artistic careers.
Residency Information
Financial and material needs taken care of for the artist during the residency, all meals are provided, there are no chores or requirements, so the artist is free to work without stress, fully supported. “Radical hospitality” for the artist is the guiding principle.
What does the residency offer?
Travel costs, financial award to cover costs while at the residency (rent, utilities, etc.)
Room and Board (Sleeping and Eating)
A newly built Dome situated in beautiful nature for each resident, and a space to work.
Duration of residencies: 2-8 weeks over summer season.
Who
The 404 FOUND Arts Residency is specifically for artists who otherwise may not have access to such experiences and support artists who have been impacted by incarceration, the foster system, migration, or lack of housing.
Undocumented/DACAmented/ Between Status
Former foster youth
Former Probation Youth
Unhoused
Migrant Immigrant
LBGTQIA+, Disabled
