Eligibility

The Anderson Center's flagship Residency Program is open to emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, musicians, performance artists, scholars, and translators from across the globe. The program is interdisciplinary and the organization welcomes applications from a wide range of creative and intellectual genres, including those that don't fit neatly into the above list. The Artist Residency Program is an ideal fit for artists whose work reveals a significant potential for cultural and community impact, is technically accomplished, and engages diverse communities. The organization believes that the environment and resources of Tower View, along with an exchange of ideas between artists working across disciplines, can serve as a catalyst for new inspiration and innovative directions for the work artists create while in residence.

Number of Participants

5 artists participate in a residency at a time. Individual residencies are the custom -- a given artist selected to participate lives in community and fellowship in the residency house with 4 other artists. Collaborative applications are welcome, but collaborative residencies are also rare. The program is extremely competitive and space is simply limited.

Deadline

January 14, 2025 18:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

March 04, 2025 06:00 UTC

Duration

August 01, 2025 - October 31, 2025

Costs

• $30.00 application fee

Facilities

Darkroom, Desk Space, Individual Studio, Library, Piano, Print Shop

Housing

Guest House, Kitchen, Live/Work, Private Bathroom, Private Room, Shared Bathroom

Meals

Chef on Site, Coffee, Dinner, Tea, Vegan, Vegetarian

Public Programs

Community Engagement , Group Dinners, Retreat, Self-Directed

Disciplines

Acting, Animation, Architecture, Blacksmith, Book Arts, Cartoonist, Ceramics, Choreography, Cinematography, Composers, Conceptual Art, Dance, Design, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Fiction, Film, Glass, Illustration, Interdiscplinary Arts, Intervention, Jewelry, Journalism, Land Art, Literature, Metalsmith, Moving Image, Multimedia, Music, Music Composition, Nonfiction, Opera, Painting, Pedagogy, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Puppeteers, Research, Scholar, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Singing, Social Practice, Sound Art, Textile, Theatre, Theatre Directors, Thinkers, Video Art, Video Games, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

For the 2025 season, the Anderson Center is offering residencies of two to four weeks’ duration in August and October, to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. The Anderson Center Residency Program was established by a working poet to support other artists and continues to be led by administrative staff with hands-on experience in the creative process. The Anderson Center trusts artists to best use their time to benefit their own work and reach their own goals. The expectation is that the program's cohort model and distinctive setting, along with the gift of time and space, generates significant advancements in residents' work. The Anderson Center is an artist community founded in 1995 on the Tower View estate, a venerable research-and-development lab for the arts rooted in an expansive natural setting in rural Red Wing, MN.