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ResidencyCycle: Annual: applications for 2028 residencies open in April 2027 (2027 round closed June 2026)

Artist in Residence Program

Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito, United States

Fully sponsored live/work residency in the Marin Headlands near San Francisco, with housing, studio space, chef-prepared meals and travel and living support for 4–10 weeks.

Free to start · no account needed

Get your artist statement for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.

You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.

About

What it offers: Travel and living expenses covered; some linked awards carry $10,000.

Also: studio; housing; chef-prepared meals.

Who can apply: Local, national and international artists of all disciplines and career stages.

Annual: applications for 2028 residencies open in April 2027 (2027 round closed June 2026).

How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).

What to prepare: work sample, project description, cv.

From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “2027 Artist in Residence applications are now closed”

Who can apply

  • Open to creators and freelancers
  • Local, national and international artists of all disciplines and career stages.

What you will need

  • Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
  • Project proposalOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
  • Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.

How to apply

Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.

How Onward Scout helps

This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.

Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.

Let Onward Scout prepare this application

Get your artist statement for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Headlands Center for the Arts without your tap.

Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.