This is a list of ceramic artist residencies one week to five months long.

  • Alchemy Art Center

    Teaching Artist Residency - Short Term: 6 weeks (mid April-end of May) — (Ideal applicants have an established studio practice and are experienced in teaching adult-level classes)

    Artists in Community Artist Residency - Short Term: 6 or 8 weeks (end of May-end of July) or (end of July-mid September) — (Connect with the broader island community, share skills, work collaboratively, and create art in a dynamic and supportive environment)

    Special Projects Artist Residency - Short Term: 6 or 8 weeks (mid April-end of May) or (end of May-end of July) or (end of July-mid September) — (For artists who are interested in developing a special project that will remain at Alchemy after they leave)

  • American Museum of Ceramic Art

    4 Months: May-August / September-December / January-April

  • Anderson Center at Tower View

    Short Term: 2-4 weeks (May-October) — There are 3 residency programs including Early Career Artist, Deaf Artists, and Public Artist

  • Anderson Ranch Art Center

    Short Term: Spring Session - 5 weeks (February 1-March 7 or March 14-April 18) or Fall Session - 10 weeks (October-December)

  • Arch Contemporary Ceramics

    Short Term: Varied (any time of year)

    Short Term “Summer Potter-in-Residence”: 3-4 months (June-September) (for functional potters)

  • Archie Bray Foundation

    Summer Short-Term: 2-4 months - June 1-first week of October

    Fall Short-term: 1-2 months - August-October

  • Art Farm

    Varied up to 5 months (mid May-mid November)

  • Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions

    Short Term: 2 weeks (June-mid August)

  • Arts/Industry John Michael Kohler Arts Center

    3 Months

  • Baltimore Clayworks

    1-3 Months

  • Belger Crane Yard Studios

    2 Residencies available: Foundation Residency - 1 year with a renewal of 1 additional year upon review (must have recently completed academic degree-undergraduate, post-baccalaureate or graduate) — Visiting Artist Residency - 1-6 months (must have five years of experience as a professional artist)

  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

    2 or 3 Months: January-April / May-August / September-November

  • Breck Create

    2-4 Months

  • Buffalo Creek Art Center

    4 or 8 Weeks: June 1 - October 30

  • Bunnell Street Arts Center

    Short Term: about 1 month (October-April)

  • Byrdcliffe Guild

    Summer Residency: 3 1/2 Weeks to 5 Months

    Winter Residency: Varied

  • Caldera Arts Center

    Short Term: 2 and 3.5 weeks (January-March)

  • Center for the Arts Evergreen

    12 weeks (offered three times per year)

  • Ceramics School

    Short Term — Summer Residency: 3 weeks (in July) - Fall Residency: 6 weeks (September-October)

  • Chautauqua Visual Arts

    Short Term: 6 Week Residency (June-beginning of August) — 2 Week Residency (August)

  • Chulitna Lodge Wilderness Retreat

    Short Term: 1, 2, or 3 weeks (end of May-beginning of October)

  • Cider Creek Collective

    Varied: 2 weeks - 2 years

  • Clay Arts Vegas

    3 Months

  • Clay Space

    Short Term: 6 months (January-June) or (July-December)

  • Cobb Mountain Art and Ecology Project

    Varied: 3 months - 3 years

  • Core Clay

    Short and Long Term: 1-3 months or 1 year -- Spring: (March 1-February 1) - Fall: (September 1-August 1)

  • Craigardan

    2 or more weeks: May-October

  • Creekside Arts

    3 weeks

  • Cub Creek Foundation

    3 months: Beginning of June-End of August

  • Edward F. Albee Foundation

    1 month

  • Emmanuel College

    6 Weeks (Mid June-Mid August)

  • Eureka Spring School of the Arts

    Short Term: 7 weeks (June-July)

  • Glen Arbor Arts Center

    2 Weeks: May-October

  • Goggleworks Center for the Arts

    10 Weeks: June 5-August 11

  • Grand Marais Art Colony

    3 Short Term Options:

    Juried Artists-in-Residence: 12 days - (May 29-June 11)

    Self-Guided Residencies: 1-4 weeks - (July-December) or (January-June)

    Group Residencies: 1-4 weeks - (July-December) or (January-June)

  • Greenwich House Pottery

    1-3 Months: September-December / January-March / April-June / July-August

  • Grunewald Guild

    3-6 weeks (October-May)

  • Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences

    2-8 weeks long — Residents arrive on Tuesday and depart on Sunday. Residencies of one week are available to Arts & Culture Administrator applicants only. Eight-week residencies will only be scheduled in the Fall and Spring Sessions. The maximum length of residencies awarded in Summer Session is four weeks

  • Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

    2 Weeks: May 28-June 9

  • Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

    3, 6, 9 and 12 month time periods - Begins September and ends in August

  • I-Park Foundation

    Short Term: 4 weeks (May-November)

  • Jackie Sedlock Pottery

    Varied

  • Jentel Foundation

    21 days - 3 weeks

  • Khnemu Studio on Fernwood Farm

    8-12 Weeks: April-October

  • L.a. Studio

    Minimum of 2 weeks

  • Lighthouse Works

    6 weeks

  • Long Meadow Art Residency

    Short Term: 6 weeks - 3 months (June-December) or (January-May) -must be 25 or older

  • Maker House

    1 month

  • Mars Hill Center

    Varied: Length is determined by the resident

  • McColl Center for Art + Innovation

    4 Months: Fall, Winter/Spring (January 9-April 18), Summer

  • Mendocino Art Center

    The Greenhouse Residency: Short Term 4 week sessions (December-March) (A project based, self-directed residency intended to provide opportunities for community-led teaching and learning experiences through workshops, programming and events)

    Practicing Artists in Retreat: Varied (Gives practicing artists an opportunity to live and create on Mendocino Art Center’s campus)

  • Mississippi School of Folk Arts

    Short Term: 1 week - 1 month

  • Monson Arts

    Short Term: 2 and 4 weeks

  • Montalvo Arts Center

    Short Term: 2 weeks - 3 months

  • Mudflat Pottery School and Studios

    Short Term: “Artist of Color Summer Residency” - 1-3 months - June-August

    Long Term: 1 year - September 1-August 31

  • Museum of Arts and Design

    6 months (February-July) or (August-January)

  • Nantucket Island School of Design & The Arts

    Varied: Any length in weekly increments of Monday-Monday — For longer stays Fall-Winter-Spring residencies there is a reduction in residency fees

  • New Harmony Clay Project

    1-8 Months

  • Noble and Greenough School

    Short Term: “Artist of Color Summer Residency” - 1-3 months - June-August

  • Northern Clay Center

    McKnight Residency - Short Tern: 3 months (Supports mid career ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and who have already proven their abilities within the field)(Cannot be a resident of Minnesota or enrolled full-time in an academic program)

  • Odyssey Clayworks

    Summer Short Term: 11-13 Weeks (June-August)

    Long Term: 1.5 - 3 years

  • Oglebay Institute's Stifel Fine Arts Center

    Short Term: 3 months (beginning of February-end of April) (beginning of March-end of May) (beginning of April-end of June)

  • Open AIR

    Short Term: 1 month during the Fall Session

  • Oregon Coast School of Art

    Short Term: Varied (2 weeks - 3 months)

  • Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency

    Summer Residency: 3 Weeks (May 28-June 17) or (June 18-July 8) or (July10-29) or (July 30-August 19)

    Virtual Residency: 4 Weeks

    Hybrid Residency-Workshop “Longform”: 1 Month (September 11-October 8)

  • Penland School of Craft

    3 residency programs:

    1 year project based residency or 3 year Resident Artist Program for artists at transitional points in their careers

    2 year Core Fellowship for emerging artists who work part-time for the school along with participating in workshops and developing their own work

    2 & 4 week long Winter Residency (January-February)

  • Peters Valley School of Craft

    2-4 Weeks: October, November and April

  • Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture

    Short Term: 2 and 4 weeks (March-mid November)

  • PLAYA

    Short Term: 6, 12, and 26 days

  • Pocosin Arts - School of Fine Craft

    Long Term: 9 Months - September-May

    Short Term: Winter - 10 days (beginning of January); Spring - 1-2 weeks (April); Summer - 10 days (end of May)

  • Pottery Northwest

    2 residency programs:

    Long Term: 6 months- 2 years

    Short Term BIPOC Summer Artist’s Residency: Approximately 3 months (Mid June - Early September)

  • Queen City Clay

    Short Term: 1-3 months -- Long Term: 1 year

  • Red Lodge Clay Center

    2-12 Weeks: September 1-May 1

  • Rock Street Artist Residency

    Short Term: 2 and 3 weeks

  • Rockland Woods

    3 weeks (2 sessions: October and January)

  • Salem Arts Works

    Short Term: Artists may apply for any length of time between April-October

  • Saratoga Clay Arts Center

    Long Term: 1 year (September 1-August 31)

    Short Term: 3 months (June 1-August 31)

  • Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

    2 Weeks-3 Months: October 2-April 30

  • Snowfarm

    Winter Residency: 10 one week long residencies ($1,800/week) - Early January-Mid March

    Free Independent Residency: 3 one week long residencies in April

    Open Studio Residency: 1 week long residency September 9-15 (cost dependent on housing and meal choice)

  • Sou'Wester Lodge

    2 Residency programs:

    Short Term Residency: 1 week

    Ceramic Teaching Residency: 1 week (choose between teaching 1, 2 or 3 day workshop for no fees + a stipend)

  • Springfield Art Association

    Varied: 2 weeks - 12 months

  • St. Johns/St. Bens

    6 weeks

  • STARWorks

    Short Term - 3 months - Spring Session (January 9-May 26), Summer Session (June 1-August 31); Fall (September-December)

    Long Term (Internship) - 1 year

  • Storm King

    Short Term: 2, 4, or 6 weeks (June-October)

  • The Bascom, A Center for the Visual Arts

    Short Term - “The Bascom’s Dave Drake Studio Resident Educator Artist Program”: 5 months - May 1-September 20

    “Winter Resident”: 5 weeks - December 9-January 20 — Ceramic Short Term - 4 weeks

  • The Clay Studio of Missoula

    1-2 months or 1-2 years

    Woodfire Residency position: at least 1 year

  • The Steel Yard

    1-3 months or 1 year (September 9-August 31)

  • Touchstone Center for Crafts

    2 weeks (June-August)

  • Township 10

    4-6 Weeks

  • Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

    3 Months: January-March

  • University of Michigan

    Short Term: 12 weeks — (They especially encourage applications from social practice, performing and performance artist with an interest in issues of national identity, commemorative practices and memory and the history and future of the US)

  • Vermont Studio Center

    2, 3, or 4 Week Sessions

  • Visitor Center Artist Camp

    2 Weeks: July 22-August 4

  • Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts

    Short Term (Summer): 12 days - June-August

    Short Term (Fall): 4 weeks (for fall 2024—3 weeks) - September-October

    Long Term (Winter) “Salad Days”: 6 months - September-March

  • Wellsville Creative Arts Center

    Varied: Length of stay is determined by the resident

  • Wildacres Retreat

    1-2 Weeks: April-October

  • Wildfire Ceramic Studios

    BIPOC Women in the Ceramic Arts Fellowship and Residency - Short Term: 1-3 months (beginning of June- end of August)

  • Women's Ceramic Studios

    Short Term “Parent Residency Grant”: 4 weeks (September-June) (for artists with at least one dependent child under the age of 18)

    Short Term “Anita Wetzel Residency Grant”: 4-6 weeks (for artists 45 years old and up)

    Short Term “Studio Workspace Residency”: 4-6 weeks

    Short Term: “Art-in-Ed Workspace Residency”: 4 and 5 weeks (Fall and Spring) (for artists interested in working with local school students while creating their own work in WSW’s supportive and immersive environment)