Artist Retreats: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
COLORADO
Anderson
Ranch Arts Center, PO Box 5598, 5263 Owlcreek
Road, Snowmass Village, CO 81615 (970) 923-3181. 14 artists at a time;
2 residency terms (10 weeks in the Fall and 12 weeks in the Spring).
Single-occupancy dorm-style rooms; five dinners and five continental
breakfasts per week, artists make all other meals; artists pay travel,
food, personal expenses. Concurrent Visiting Artists and Critics program
allows residents to meet and get feedback from internationally-recognized
artists, curators, and writers. In a resort community in the Rocky Mountains
160 miles west of Denver and 10 miles west of Aspen, spread out over
4.5 acres. Open to emerging and established visual artists, including
woodworkers, furniture makers, photographers, painters, sculptors, ceramicists,
printmakers, and book artists. (visual arts)
Carbondale
Clay Center, 135 Main St., Carbondale, CO 81623 (970) 963-2529.
Studio space, use of kilns, basic materials, payment for services 20
hours a week (with additional income opportunities via teaching, studio
work, etc.), health insurance. 2 positions of 1-2 years. (visual arts)
Colorado
Art Ranch, 6878 Taft Ct., Arvada, CO 80004 (303) 279-5198.
One-month residencies in small Colorado towns for writers and visual
artists. Located in a different area each session; 5-6 artists at a
time; no fees. Also sponsors a two-day "Artposium" open to
the public during each residency, featuring presentations and speakers
from residents and others on pre-determined themes (such as Mapping,
The Art and Science of Birds, Fire in the Arts, The Immigrant Experience).
Artposiums include four main stage events, breakout sessions, and meals.
(visual and literary arts)
Pingree Park,
Artist in Residence Program, 1005 W. Laurel, Ft. Collins, CO 80523 (970)
491-7377. Located at Colorado State University, food & housing in
exchange for one donated work. 1 month residency in drawing and painting.
(visual arts)
Rocky
Mountain National Park, AIR Program, 1000 Hwy. 36, Estes Park,
CO 80517 (970) 586-1206. On 417 square miles encompassing massive peaks,
alpine meadows, the Continental Divide, and abundant wildlife. Residence
in a rustic, historic cabin for 2-week periods from June through Sept.;
no stipend; artists donate one completed work of art in their medium
and provide one public program. 6-8 artists per year. Open to 2D visual
artists, photographers, sculptors, performers, writers, video/filmmakers,
composers. (visual, literary, media, and performing arts)
Rocky Mountain Women's
Institute, Associates Program, 7150 Montview Blvd., Suite 317,
Denver, CO 80220 (303) 830-1818. Not a residency program, open only
to Denver-area residents who can commute from their homes. 7 Associates
per year, Sept. through Aug. Associates given office or studio space
and stipend. (literary, media, performing, visual arts, and scholars)
MONTANA
Archie Bray
Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, 2915
Country Club Ave., Helena, MT 59601 (406) 443-3502. 26 acres on the
former Western Clay Manufacturing Co., 3 miles from Helena. Artists
purchase and prepare own meals; residencies of 2 months to 2 years for
visual artists working in ceramics, installation and sculpture in clay.
(visual arts)
Glacier
National Park, AIR Program, West Glacier, MT 59936 (406) 888-7936.
Parkland includes nearly 50 glaciers, glacier-fed lakes and streams,
grizzly bears and gray wolves. Summer residencies of 2 weeks open to
2D visual artists, photographers, sculptors, video/filmmakers. (visual,
media arts)
Montanta Artists
Refuge, PO Box 8, Basin, MT 59631 (406) 225-3500. In a small,
gold-mining town near the Continental Divide. Fees charged; residencies
of 3 mos. to 1 yr. A variety of living and studio spaces available.
Open to artists working in the visual, media, folk, installation, literary,
performing, conceptual, environmental, interdisciplinary, multimedia
and new genre arts, as well as architects, graphic designers, landscape
designers, scholars, collaborative teams. (visual, literary, performing,
media arts)
Red
Lodge Clay Center, 123 S. Broadway, Red Lodge, MT 59068
(406) 446-3993. Serves 4 long-term residents (of one year) and 2 to
4 short-term residents (ranging from one to eight weeks) at a time in
a rural, mountainous setting. Full ceramic facilities. Housing, studio
space provided. Long-term residents receive stipend in exchange for
working 20 hours a week (teaching, gallery sitting, cleaning, maintenance).
Short-term residents pay housing fee. All residents provide own meals.
(visual arts)
WYOMING
Central Wyoming College,
Residency Program, Art Dept., 2660 Peck Ave., Riverton, WY 82501. Facilities
include sculpture (welding, ceramic shell and sand bronze casting, carving),
ceramics (downdraft, wood, Raku kilns), printmaking (relief, litho,
intaglio), B/W darkroom, natural light studios for drawing and painting.
Artists must be interested in developing relationships with students.
(visual arts)
Devils
Tower National Monument, AIR Program,
Bearlodge Writers, PO Box 204, Sundance, WY 82729 (307) 467-5283 x24.
The dramatic centerpiece of this park is a towering column of volcanic
rock that rises 865 feet straight up from the prairie floor. Accomodations
in one-bedroom apartment on park property. 2 residencies per year of
1 week each open to writers in the Fall. (literary arts)
Jentel Artist
Residency Program, 130 Lower Piney Creek Rd., Banner, WY 82832.
(307) 737-2311. Month-long residencies in a rural ranch setting in the
foothills of the Big Horn Mountains near Sheridan. Open to visual artists
in all media and writers in all genres. Press for monoprints. Private
accomodation, separate studio, and stipend. (visual and literary arts)
Ucross
Foundation, 30 Big Red Lane, Clearmont, WY 82835-9712 (307)
737-2291. 8 residents for 2 weeks to 4 mos. On a 22,000 acre working
cattle ranch in the rugged foothills of the Big Horn Mtns. No fees,
studio space, living accomodations, and meals. (visual, literary, performing
arts; scholars, scientists)
Yellowstone National Park,
AIR Program, PO Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 (307) 344-2265.
Residencies include service hours, leading public programs, as well
as studio hours in which visitors can observe artist at work (visual
arts)