Artist in Residence Application

 

2023 Artists-in-Residence work on projects in the Pony Shed Artist Studio

NPS Photo / Kelly Sczomak

Applications are currently closed.

Artist-in-Residence applications for the 2024 season are now closed. Applications will open for the 2025 visitor season (May-October 2025) in Winter 2025. Artist residency lengths range from three weeks to six months. Please send us an email if you would like to be alerted when applications open for the 2025 season.

The Artist-in-Residence program at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park aims to help visitors connect with the landscape through art and the artistic process. Unlike some sites, we don’t expect, though in some cases may accept, a finished work of art for our collection. However, the artist must engage in a variety of outreach opportunities. These include, at minimum, 100-hours of on-site residency:

• Demonstrating art at one of our public events
• Teaching between one to three workshops for the public in your preferred medium
• Hosting an “open studio” at the Horse Shed Art Studio
• Exhibiting or performing your work

Other opportunities include:

• Presenting a talk about the connection between your art and the park’s collections or themes
• Participating in a dialogue about art and conservation with a small group
• Delivering art-themed tours of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion
• Offering art workshops to school children
• Anything else you’d like to try that connects people to place through art!

 

NPS staff create art in the park

NPS Photo / Troi Perkins

How to Apply

To apply, please send an email to [e-mail] with the following information:

1. A Letter of Interest
2. A Digital Portfolio

Our Artist-in-Residence studio is located at the Horse Shed, just above the Belvedere summer house in the Horse Shed Meadow. The Horse Shed, designed by Theodor Muller and built in 1961, was originally constructed to house Mary Rockefeller's horses. The artist studio, in the rehabilitated Rockefeller Horse Shed, is off the grid with a 230 watt solar photovoltaic system. The renovation of this building was designed by SAS Architects of Burlington, Vermont, the same firm who designed the Forest Center, the park's Platinum LEED certified classroom and meeting space.

The park provides this studio space for the current artist in residence to work in. We are only accepting applications from local candidates, or canditates that are able to provide their own housing. For more information on the Artist-in-Residence program, please contact our Visitor Services Team.