Application Opens: 3/24/25
Application Deadline: 6/2/25
Application Fee (USD): $25.00

*Please email Dani Klebes ([email protected]) if you cannot afford to pay the application fee.

Applications are run through our Slideroom portal.

About Us
The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. We nurture connections between our artists and our neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries.

Wassaic Project 2026 Residency Program Open Call

The Wassaic Project accepts proposals for our 2026 Residency program, which includes the Winter Residency program (Jan – April 2026) and the Summer Residency program (June – September 2026). This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through our Family Residency program. The residency fee is $900 (the fee is per artist/collab group/artist team/family). The fees cover: semi-private studio space(s), private room in a shared house (our Family program receives a private house), access to our wood shop, print shop, and kiln, staff support, and programming such as our visiting artist program, artist talks, studio visits, open studios, artist presentations, etc.

The Wassaic Project cultivates and supports the community for emerging and professional contemporary artists, writers, curators, filmmakers, and other creatives. Housed in historic, landmark buildings, the residency program offers ten artists each month the opportunity to live and work in the heart of a rural community. The Wassaic Project seeks artists working in a diverse range of media who want to produce, explore, challenge, and expand on their current art-making practices while participating in a community-based arts organization. We will not be holding separate Summer and Winter Residency open calls this year. Instead, we will be holding one Artist Residency open call for the entirety of 2026.

On our SlideRoom application, you will be able to specify which sessions you’re most interested in joining us for. Applications will be open from March 24 to June 2, 2025.

FAMILY RESIDENCY PROGRAM: The Wassaic Project broadly defines “family” as a group of more than one individual where there is an in-house dependent relationship as a necessary caregiver. The Wassaic Project recognizes that artists who have caregiving relationships, as providers or recipients, often opt out of peer community building for practical reasons. The Wassaic Project aims to provide accommodations that increase access to our residency program. Examples of caregiving may include but are not limited to: parent/child (parent is caregiver), child/parent (child is caregiver), partner/partner (where one partner is a supportive caregiver of the other and cohabitation is required for caregiving), a recipient of caregiving, self-selection into this application for separate and additional housing space by identifying as a family applicant.

REVIEW: Residents are selected by a review committee composed of the Wassaic Project Co-Directors, the Director of Artistic Programming, and professionals in the field. Residents will be chosen based on the quality of their work, commitment to their practice, and ability to interact positively with the community at large.

For more info: https://www.wassaicproject.org/residency/summer-residency https://www.wassaicproject.org/residency/winter-residency https://www.wassaicproject.org/residency/family-residency https://www.wassaicproject.org/apply/residency-faq

Application Requirements:
Contact information
Proposal
1–10 work samples (5 or more images of completed works and 1-5 sketches, mock-ups, or works in progress of what you’re thinking about for your installation)
CV (PDF, 2 pages maximum)
$25 application fee
Application Deadline: Monday, June 2, midnight EST