Residencies for Nature-Loving Artists
Looking for a way to combine your love for nature and art? We’ve compiled a list of the best upcoming residencies around the world for artists who love the outdoors. Whether you're drawn to the forest, the desert, or even outer space, we've got something for you.
Bloedel Reserve | Creative Residency 2027
The mission of Bloedel Reserve’s Residency Program is to foster creative thinking inspired by nature and to explore the connection between humans and the environment.
The program is open to artists, composers, writers, botanists, landscape architects, researchers, and others exploring the themes of nature and the human connection with nature, the Creative Residency at Bloedel Reserve offers Residents a three week stay at a 140-acre internationally renowned public garden and forest preserve.
Rewards: Accommodation and $1,000 stipend
Photo: Bloedel Reserve
The Erie Canal Museum | Artist-in-Residence 2027
This residency focuses on a year-long creative inquiry into the New York State Canal System – including the historic Erie Canal – reflecting on its past, contemplating its current condition, and considering its future. The 2027 Residencies are dedicated to projects that reflect upon the Canal’s physical, environmental, and social condition and history; materiality; and context.
While all artists are encouraged to apply, they are specifically seeking artists with ancestral ties to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and/or Mohican Nation and artists who live or work in New York State Canal communities.
Rewards: Stipend of $10,000, additional $2,000 production budget, and exhibition
Photo: The Erie Canal Museum
Ars Electronica | ArtXScience Residency
The aim of the ArtXScience residency is to explore how art and science can collaborate to address urgent environmental challenges, with a special focus on climate emergence, sustainable agriculture, geoengineering, permaculture, water resource management, and the broader ecological impacts on local communities.
Artists, designers, creatives, and artist collectives are invited to apply for the fully funded program designed for direct collaboration with local scientists.
Rewards: 24 000 EUR in total funding and exhibition/public presentation
Wonder Mountain Open Source Space | Artist Residency 2026-2027
This residency welcomes creators, astrologers, musicians, scientists, and writers to experiment, develop, and rest amidst the vast stillness of the high desert.
They offer a dedicated space to practice and connect to the local Mojave desert landscape.
Cost: $1,250 for a two-week stay
What’s Provided: Accommodation and utilites
Photo: Wonder Mountain Open Source Space
CAN SERRAT | Walking Practices Laboratory 2027
These laboratory-format residencies invite artists, writers, and researchers from diverse disciplines to explore walking as an artistic and research methodology through an intensive process of collective work situated within the landscape of Montserrat. The natural surroundings functions as both terrain and collaborator: a living archive that is traversed, interpreted, and collectively reimagined through shared movement.
Cost: €433-€2730 depending on room type and length of stay.
What’s Provided: Accommodation, group dinners, workspace, and more
Observatoire de l'Espace | Artistic Research Residency 2027
Through this residency, the Space Observatory supports artists wishing to develop a project rooted in the space universe. This residency is open to visual artists, individually or in groups, with a project that strongly resonates with the space environment or its traces on Earth.
Rewards: One-year research period supported through discussions, assistance with documentary research, and access to scientific and technical sites.
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