Place-Based Restorative Residency

What happens when your practice is interrupted—when the familiar becomes unavailable, and the process, not the product, becomes the work? This residency asks artists to step away from the usual pace and pressures of making. Set in an open-air environment without digital connectivity, the program creates space to slow down, pay closer attention, and see what emerges when distraction falls away. 

You will have shelter, time, and a limited set of materials you can reasonably bring. What you won’t have is everything else: no technology, no traditional studio, and none of the usual conditions that structure daily creative work. Instead, the surrounding landscape, the pace of time, and the limits of what is available become active collaborators in the process.

Seeking Artists From All Disciplines Willing To:

  • Work without digital connectivity (cell service or internet) or habitual studio supports

  • Engage in sustained, uninterrupted studio inquiry

  • Adapt their process in response to shifting conditions of time, space, and access

  • Work through blockage, uncertainty, and redirection as part of an evolving practice

  • Examine how their thinking and creative practice evolve across changing contexts

This residency is best suited for artists who are comfortable letting go of rigid outcomes and are interested in examining and evolving their creative process, not simply producing finished work.

Over Five Days, Artists Will:

  • Digitally disconnect and work within an open air environment (NO cell service or wifi)

  • Adapt their methods in response to constraint and context

  • Engage in reflective practices (documentation of works in progress and conversation)

  • Contribute to an evolving understanding of how creative work changes under pressure, limitation, and distance from routine

What This Residency Offers to You:

  • A 5-day (4-night) immersive, place-based residency at Chinati Hot Springs (Marfa, TX) 

  • Housing (see accommodations linked here) and a $500 stipend

  • A cohort-based experience with other selected artists

  • Inclusion in a final exhibition and research-informed publication/dialogue

  • $200 towards exhibition preparation (e.g., costs for shipping, framing, travel etc.)

What This Residency Asks from You:

  • Openness to experimentation & willingness to reflect on / share aspects of your process

  • Willingness to travel to the location and bring their own food, drinks, and firewood (fully functional kitchen with utensils, stove top, oven, fridge/freezer is available). If you forget anything, the nearest store is in Presidio, about an hour away.

  • 1-year commitment as a research participant which includes 3- and 6-month follow-up studio visits about works in progress

  • Exhibition & moderated panel discussion participation at Troy University (Fall 2027).