NEW Summer Ceramic Residency ✨
What better way to vacay than with clay on the coast? 🌊
Spend your summer at Ilwaco Artworks, where salty air, slow days, and clay come together just steps from the ocean.
1 week • 2 weeks • 1 month residencies available
ilwacoartworks.org
Call for Applications Deadline: May 8, 2026.
Three early career artists will be selected for a one week residency at Empire of Dirt during the week of August 8 to 15, 2026.
What’s the residency about?
This residency is for earlier career artists who want to take their final artwork from nearly complete to ready for installation, or who want to learn how to consider the final installation at the beginning of a project.
Learn techniques for installing your work and troubleshooting those details that really matter at the very end of the creation process.
Have you been to an exhibition where the way the work attaches to the wall is more visible and glaring than the work itself? Have you made a small sculpture and don’t really want to put it on a plinth, but don’t have other ideas?
This is a time research, exchange, and reflection in a rural space without the distractions of daily life, so bring ideas for a project you want to start or bring artwork that you need to finish.
What is offered:
$300 travel stipend
One week stay at EoD in your own live/work studio
Four half days of skill sharing workshops with Emily and Marnie
A quiet exchange with nature
About the Facilitators Emily Neufeld and Marnie Temple
Emily Neufeld’s practice investigates place and the layers of memory and psychic history that accumulate in our material world. She is committed to examining her own Mennonite and Scottish settler colonial histories in understanding her relationship to this place as Indigenous land. She received her BFA from ECUAD in 2013. Emily is the installation technician at Gordon Smith Gallery.
Marnie Temple’s practice explores her lived experiences in relation to the aftermath of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She is a Black biracial person who grew up in the Prairies before settling in the Kootenays and co-operating EoD with her partner. She recently received her MFA from ECUAD in 2025. Her experience with building materials comes from her work at the residency and the creation of the buildings at EoD.
How to Apply
Please send the following to [email protected] by Friday, May 8, 2026.
1. A Statement of Interest (250 words max). Please describe your practice, state why this residency would be impactful for you, and what you hope to glean by visiting Empire of Dirt.
2. A short (50-100 word) biography describing your relevant background.
3. Portfolio (10 samples of work) compiled in one PDF file, and/or link to a website to show past work or projects.
https://www.empireofdirtresidency.ca/artcraft
Exploring residency options for the upcoming year? We want to see your work!
📸: 2024-25 Resident Artist @davidkwakpottery
Our Artist in Residence program is open to qualified clay artists looking to enhance their knowledge and experience in a working studio environment. Residents are expected to work to develop a strong and cohesive body of work, have a visible presence in the studio and interact with members of the clay community and the public. Â This year-long adventure starts on September 1 and continues through August 31.
We also have a 3-month Summer Residency opening, running June 1 – August 31. Our summer resident will have the opportunity to assist or teach in our summer kids & clay camp programs while developing their voice as an artist and being part of a dynamic ceramic community.
Deadline for both opportunities: May 1.
Find the details here.
The Banff Artist in Residence program is designed for visual artists to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment. Within this residency, you are encouraged to self-direct your research and time, as well as cultivate new directions in your work. Your artist in residence experience, is further supported through individual studio visits with guest faculty and dialogue amongst peers.
The program encourages experimentation and risk-taking via access to shared production facilities and knowledgeable staff who are available to provide technical support and assistance. In addition, you will have the opportunity to build connections, create networks, and share your work with other artists-in-residence and the public.
The Banff Artist in Residence program offers you the opportunity to delve deeply into their practice while away from the constraints of everyday life. You will be are provided with a studio, accessible 24 hours a day, as well as access to our extensive facilities.
This residency is for visual artists who have completed formal training at the post-secondary level, or who have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers.
Banff Centre invites applications from anywhere in the world, and artists of all ages, backgrounds, gender identities, and expressions.
For full details on vaccination requirements, masking, safety protocols, and COVID related policies please visit: www.banffcentre.ca/covid-19-measures Â
Adjudication is based on artistic merit, the potential impact of the program on artists’ practice and careers, project feasibility and the capacity of Banff Centre to help realize the project, and the project’s fit with Banff Centre’s values and strategic directions as described in its strategic plan. Banff Centre respects the need for artists to plan ahead for their visit; applicants will be notified as soon as adjudication is complete.
Banff Centre welcomes domestic and international applicants for this program. Please note, Banff Centre programs do not meet Canadian Student Visa eligibility requirements, you must obtain a Visitor Visa to enter Canada. Accepted individuals are responsible for identifying and complying with the immigration requirements to enter Canada as a visitor from their country of origin. Current wait times to receive a visa are much longer than normal, so applicants who require a Visitor Visa should check the current expected processing times prior to applying.
All programs, faculty, dates, fees, and offers of financial assistance are subject to change. Program fee is subject to applicable taxes. Non-refundable fees and deposits will be retained upon cancellation. Any other fees are refunded at the discretion of the Banff Centre. The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.
Find more HERE.
