Jentel Artist Residency, Summer/Fall 2027

About this call

Jentel Artist Residency, 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming, United States, in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, invites visual artists in any medium, writers and composers to apply for its Summer/Fall 2027 sessions. Residencies run about three weeks, from the 15th of one month to the 7th of the next, between May 15 and December 7, 2027, with six residents on site each session. Each resident has a private bedroom, a shared living area and kitchen, and a separate studio, and receives a $300 stipend paid in weekly installments. Jentel is a low-tech, no-equipment residency: residents bring their own materials and laptops and buy their own food. Applications are reviewed by a rotating panel of visual art, literary and music professionals, with notification by March 15.

Who can apply

• Domestic applicants
• Medium: Mixed Media / Writing
• Entry fee: $30
• Applicants must be at least 25 and be US citizens, or reside in the US during the year of the residency session they apply for (US citizens living abroad may apply). Students enrolled full-time (9 hours or more) in a degree program at the time of the residency are not eligible; post-doc fellows are. Previous residents may reapply after five years. Wyoming residents use a separate application form. Visual artists submit work completed in the past two years: 10 images (max 2MB each) with title, materials, dimensions and date, or up to 5 minutes of video, or 5 minutes of video plus 5 images, and a statement contextualizing the work (no PowerPoint). Writers submit writing completed in the past two years: up to 20 pages for play/screenplay, fiction, nonfiction and creative nonfiction, or up to 10 pages of poetry. Composers submit 1 to 5 items of audio (up to 30MB each), with separate PDF scores (up to 10MB each) for one or two of the audio files. Three references are requested. The $30 application fee is non-refundable and cannot be waived. A $100 reservation deposit is due one month after the award; aside from the application fee there are no additional charges to attend. Residents commit to the fixed arrival and departure dates. Pets, children and family members cannot be accommodated. The deposit is non-refundable if the reservation is cancelled less than two months before the residency starts. Residents pay their own travel to and from Sheridan.