A Tiny Birch Residency includes:

• Housing in Tiny Birch’s log cabin. Private bedroom at the top floor, bathroom, living room, kitchen. The house will be shared with the residency hosts lodging downstairs.
• 24-hour access to a private study.
• Access to workshop (experience with tools required)

• Two communal meals per day (plus coffee/tea/cold beverages available around the clock). Food restrictions can be accommodated.

• Weekly housekeeping of the shared areas, bedding changed every seven days, laundry, excursion recommendations.

• Wi-Fi access. [Cell phone connection is spotty, but the house is equipped with a landline.]

• Large outdoor property in the woods. The resident is welcome to create site specific work in the woods surrounding the property.
• Participation in Tiny Birch Flat File Program.

• Professional documentation of works and process (if desired).

• Promotion on Tiny Birch’s website and social channels.

• An opportunity to engage with Tiny Birch’s staff, network, and be featured on our social channels beyond the residency period.

• Parking available on site.

Tiny Birch welcomes applications from both emerging and established artists in the fields of visual art, sculpture, performance, site-specific installations, land art, textile, placemaking as well as writers and artistic researchers amongst others* who have/are:

• The ability to produce a consistent body of high quality work.

• The self-motivation needed to work alone. Unless the residency is to be a collaboration between two people, the vast majority of the time the resident will be living and working in solitude.

• A willingness to engage audiences.

• An openness to sharing thoughts on their work, their practice, and their processes through Tiny Birch’s online publications.

• Comfortable communicating with Tiny Birch’s English-speaking team and audiences.

• 21 or older.

• Their own mode of transportation. Although there is no need to leave the premises once the resident arrives, the residency location makes it difficult to access for those who do not have a car.

*If you do not see your discipline listed here we welcome you to contact us.

• We do not insist on a final product at the end of the resident’s stay, however we accept works into the residency’s Flat File Program. This program intends to showcase alumni work in future events such as exhibitions.

• We welcome the resident to engage with the regional arts community when in residence or afterwards. The context and form of this engagement opportunity are very flexible and can be coordinated with Tiny Birch either before or during the residency. Possibilities include a virtual workshop, studio visit, talk, public presentation or performance. Tiny Birch welcomes proposals from the artist about engagement ideas they might like to try during their residency here.

• Artists should be willing to share their work, processes, and experience with audiences through Tiny Birch’s website, social channels, and printed publications. In collaboration with the Director, Elena Kendall-Aranda, artists are asked to make a recommended list of books as a contribution to the Residency’s currently-virtual-but-hopefully-soon-physical library for future residents.

Tiny Birch Residency currently offers two individual residency session: Spring and Fall. Only one artist or two in collaboration will be in residence at once. Our residencies are between one to four weeks. Below are our 2021 Session dates.

The cost to attend Tiny Birch Residency for 2021 is $400 a week per resident. There is no fee to apply.