Residency Program

 
 
 

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Introduction

The goal of the Lucid Art Residency Program is to provide artists with a serene, retreat-like natural environment for creative exploration and inquiry into art and consciousness. The Lucid Art Foundation encourages exploration of art through multimedia, conceptual, ecological, and interdisciplinary approaches.

The residency will provide a house to live in, located in the center of the Foundation campus in Inverness, California, and a 650-square-foot art studio called “the Ark.” The Ark was built in 1960 and was a former studio of painter Gordon Onslow Ford and mixed-media artist Fariba Bogzaran. The large studio has a wood-burning fireplace, sink, high ceilings with upper loft, wood walls, skylights, and a private deck off the sliding glass patio doors. The house has WiFi, a bedroom, living room, bathroom, wood burning stove, and full kitchen stocked with necessary cooking utensils. Parking and laundry facilities are onsite. There is also a print shop with a Sturges press available for use by artists who are experienced printmakers. Only water-based mediums may be used on the press.

During the residency, artists have the opportunity to meet and dialogue with a Lucid Art professional artist associate who will visit the artist studio and engage in conversation with them about their work. A weekly tea and conversation will be scheduled with staff, artist associates, and/or scholars.

Accepting Applications for 2026 Residency Focused on Environmental Concerns

The Lucid Art Foundation’s Residency Program for 2026 will focus on art and science in relation to the environment at large in light of our climate crisis. The program emphasis directs artists towards alternative ways of raising awareness and promoting action. Climate crisis areas include: biodiversity, habitat loss, rapid melting of polar ice caps and its consequences, ocean pollution, food security issues, animal migrations, soil pollution in agriculture and food chain issues, forest extinction, and the sixth mass extinction.

The Foundation will create an advisory environmental scientist group that the invited artists can connect with for information and consultation during their residency. Artists working in land-based art, visual arts, video/new media, music composition, writing, poetry, or performance choreography will be considered.

The 2026 residency will also encourage collaborative projects with scientists and ecologists. Applicants must submit a project proposal (max. 3,000 characters) for what they plan to explore and how it will address climate crisis. This proposal will include: what the artist plans to explore during their residency as it relates to environmental concerns, and an action plan about how their work can bring awareness to their particular environmental area of exploration after their residency.

Eligible artists must have an MFA or equivalent in independent studio work with an exhibition history. Applicants must be residents of the US or Canada. Applications require submission of work samples created within the last two years: visual artists must submit 10 images; musicians or audio artists must submit 2 audio files (each max. 60MB); and new media/video artists or choreographers must submit 2 videos (each max. 9MB). Writers are required to upload a PDF (max. 2MB) of their work. Applicants are welcome to submit a variety of work samples in addition to the required amount mentioned above.

A short biography and recent résumé of artistic activities (exhibitions, performances, publications, etc.) from the last five years (max. 1,000 characters) is required with the application as well as an artist's statement providing information about the work in relation to the mission* of the Lucid Art Foundation (max. 1,000 characters). *The mission of the Lucid Art Foundation is to explore the phenomena of the inner worlds and deep levels of consciousness through visual arts, spontaneous painting, writings, and other means to make visible the otherwise invisible, creating an inclusive way of seeing that is in harmony with the natural world of which we are a part.

The Lucid Art Foundation will create a group online exhibition in 2027 of residency artists to address environmental concerns and promote climate crisis action. The artists will be asked to submit work either from their residency period or work created after their residency.

Due to the limited number of artists who can attend per year, the Foundation would like to give opportunities to new artists. We only allow applications from artists who previously have not participated in our residency program. We love to host the previous residency artists at our teas so they can have conversations with the current artists-in-residence.

The Foundation encourages the use of nontoxic artistic media. We do not accept applicants who use oil-based paints, turpentine, spray paint, or any media that are volatile or have strong odors.

As our location is remote, artists must have a car to use during their entire residency. Artists are responsible for making their own meals but they can harvest from the Foundation’s organic garden. There is no stipend.

For more information and to apply, visit our CaFE page.

The Application Process closes Monday, November 3, 2025 at 10:59pm (Los Angeles time). Applicants will be notified in January 2026 of the jury’s decision.

If you have additional questions, please email Nancy Lund: education [at] lucidart.org

Residency Artist Exhibitions

To view our previous Residency Artist Exhibitions, visit here.

Artists-in-Residence by Date

2025

2024

2023

2022 (deferred from 2020)

2021

2020

Due to Covid-19, the residency was deferred to 2022.

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

  • Michael Cran (October 1 - November 27)

  • Jacob Tillman (August 16 - September 15)

  • Cameron Kelly (June 15 - August 15)

  • Nicole Buffett (June 15 - August 15)

2006

2005