The N.C. Arts Council sponsors one- and two-month residencies for artists in a variety of disciplines at residency centers in California and Vermont. Two artists will be selected for the 2008-09 residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and for the 2008-2009 residencies at Vermont Studio Center as part of this program. The deadline for Headlands is June 6, 2008. The deadline for Vermont is June 16, 2008.

You are eligible to apply if you are at least 18 years old, are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident alien, have lived in North Carolina for at least the year immediately prior to the deadlines, and will not be enrolled in a degree-granting academic program during the grant year (July 2008 - June 2009). You must also remain physically present in the state for the majority of the grant period.

You are welcome to apply to both of the centers, but you must state this in writing to each center involved. No artist may receive more than one Arts Council-supported residency grant in any given year, nor may an artist receive a residency grant and an artist fellowship in the same year. If you have received a N.C. Arts Council-supported residency in 2005-06, or 2006-07, or 2007-08, you will not be eligible for the 2008-09 residency grants through the Arts Council. If you have been awarded a grant to be in residence at one of these centers in the past and wish to reapply in the upcoming cycle, please get in touch with us to discuss your eligibility.

The purpose of the N.C. Arts Council's residency program is to provide both emerging and established North Carolina artists with time for their work. Prior publication, exhibition, or performance of work is not a prerequisite for eligibility. The host centers can accommodate people with disabilities. You should let each center know your needs when you apply.

If you are not in their database, you can add your information by filling out an online form on our website. To see if you are already listed and if your information is current, use the Search function on this web site. If you are not, click Get Listed at the top of the page and follow the directions.

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About the Residency Centers

Headlands Center for the Arts
This center is located in the buildings of a 1907 fort at the Marin Headlands, a 13,000-acre section of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Headlands are a series of low coastal hills, cliffs, coves, and beaches a 10-minute drive north of San Francisco. The North Carolina residency grant recipients will join a community of artists from California and elsewhere working in a variety of disciplines.

Headlands welcomes writers, composers, songwriters, choreographers, film/video artists, and visual artists in all media, and also artists whose work cuts across art forms. Headlands can consider writers of literary translation in addition to writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, plays, and screenplays. In the visual arts, painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors, craft artists, conceptual artists, and interdisciplinary artists may apply. Collaboration is encouraged. The center hopes artists will develop work from their experience of the residency rather than come with a project already in mind.

The residency is for a two-month period and must occur between March 1 and August 15, 2009 (unless we recognize a special need for the residency to run later into the summer).

Each artist may have a spouse or friend as a guest at Headlands for a two-week stay. Family housing for up to one month may also be available. The use of a house suitable for families is negotiated on a case-by-case basis, and the artist must pay an additional fee.

A North Carolina writer will have a living/working space of 500 square feet in a house shared with three other artists. A North Carolina visual artist, film/video artist, composer, songwriter, or choreographer will have a bedroom and a separate studio. The grant for this residency provides round-trip travel from North Carolina to Sausalito, California, lodging, and dinner 5 nights a week. A $1,000 stipend is included in the grant award.

To apply:

Artist in Residence Application - North Carolina [pdf, 68k]
Completed applications for the Headlands residencies must be sent to the Headlands Center for the Arts, postmarked no later than June 6, 2008. Please state in your application how long you have been a resident of North Carolina.

For more information and to send applications:

Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Fort Barry
Sausalito, CA 94965
Holly Blake, Residency Manager
(415) 331-2787
(415) 331-3857 fax
hblake@headlands.org

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Vermont Studio Center
The Vermont Studio Center is located in Johnson, Vermont, a traditional New England village in the Green Mountains. The Center occupies 30 historic buildings on either side of the Gihon River. Since its founding by artists in 1984, the Center has brought 3,000 painters, sculptors, mixed-media artists, and writers together for periods of two to 12 weeks throughout the year.

The North Carolina Arts Council-supported residency is for a four-week period, scheduled between October 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009 (unless we recognize a special need for the residency to run late into the summer).

Vermont Studio Center residencies offer uninterrupted time to work and freedom from daily responsibilities. The Center is the largest in the country, with 50 writers and artists in residence at any given time. In addition, the Center brings a roster of established writers and visual artists that changes each month to offer readings and public discussions and to provide resident artists with optional conferences on their work.

Vermont Studio Center residencies are restricted to writers of fiction, poetry and literary nonfiction and to painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers.

The North Carolina grant recipients will receive round-trip travel from North Carolina to Johnson, Vermont, lodging, studio or work space, and all meals.

In addition to the Council-supported residencies, Vermont Studio Center may offer residencies to other North Carolina applicants through this program. The Council encourages these invitations even though we can't support them financially.

To apply:

General VSC Application Only [pdf 212k]
Completed applications for the Vermont residencies must be sent to the Vermont Studio Center, received no later than June 16, 2008. Please state in your application how long you have been a resident of North Carolina. No fee is required for North Carolina applicants for this deadline.

For more information and to send applications:

Vermont Studio Center
P.O. Box 613
Johnson, VT 05656
Kathy Black, Admissions Director
(802) 635-2727
(802) 635-2730 fax
info@vermontstudiocenter.org

For More Information

Andrea Lawson, Performing Arts Director
919.807.6511
andrea.lawson@ncmail.net

Debbie McGill, Literature Director
919.807.6512
debbie.mcgill@ncmail.net

Jeff Pettus, Visual Arts Director
919.807.6513
jeff.pettus@ncmail.net

North Carolina Arts Council
Department of Cultural Resources
MSC 4632
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4632
Fax: 919.807.6532