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Montello Foundation
Submit your work and artist statement for consideration for a 2-week solitary residency in the Nevada desert.
Does this fit your work? 5 questions score every call to your medium, location and budget. Free.
Get matched →The Montello Foundation provides a solitary retreat where artists can experience the vastness of a desert landscape from a safe building. The residency offers a unique space for inspiration and creation designed with a large shading roof and two distinct spaces: one for bodily needs (eating, sleeping, washing, and a stove for cold desert nights) and one for work (writing, painting, drawing, studying).
Open to artists based anywhere in the world at any stage of career. Applicants must submit work that fosters understanding of nature, its fragility, and the need to protect it.
Animation, architecture, art history, biology, book arts, choreography, criticism, dance, digital fabrication, digital media, documentary, drawing, ecology, electronic arts, environmental arts, environmentalism/conservation, fiction, film, graphic design, history, illustration, installation arts, interdisciplinary arts, journalism, landscape architecture, literary, literature, mathematics, mixed media, moving image, multimedia arts, music, new genres, nonfiction, opera, painting, paper arts, performance art, philosophy, photography, playwriting, poetry, public art, science, screenwriting, sculpture, social practice, sound art, storytelling, textile & fiber arts/weaving, theater, translation, TV + radio, urban planning/design, virtual reality, visual arts, woodworking, and writing.
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The panel evaluates work based on: (1) quality of the work; (2) relevance to the Montello Foundation's mission—work that increases understanding of nature, its fragility, and the need to protect it; and (3) artist's commitment to sharing their work (shows in non-profit spaces, self-organized events/happenings/exhibitions).
Apply online at https://www.montellofoundation.org/pages/montello_apply.htm. The Foundation is unable to provide financial support but is happy to provide assistance for your own fundraising.