Apply for a Jentel Residency

Jentel awards residencies to artists, writers, and composers who are focused and serious about their practices. Residencies are intended to be professional development opportunities for visual artists in any medium; writers in fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry; and composers across musical genres. Proposals for self-directed residencies should be compatible with available studio spaces, facilities, and resources. Artistic merit and promise form the basis for selections. Established as well as emerging artists are encouraged to apply.

Applicants must be 25 years of age to be eligible for a residency. Applicants must also be US citizens or reside in the US during the year of the residency for which they are applying.

Applicants in post-doc fellowships are eligible for a residency; students enrolled full-time (9 hours or more) in a degree program at the time of the residency session they would like to participate in are not.

Wyoming Resident Creatives: Jentel provides a streamlined application for artists who are residents of Wyoming. If you are not a resident of Wyoming, you are ineligible to use this specialized application.

The Jentel Artist Residency is located 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, WY (population nearing 20,000), in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains.

Accommodations for each resident include a private room, a shared living area and kitchen, and a separate studio space. See Facilities Tour.

Residents need to bring their own materials and laptops.

Pets are not allowed, and accommodations for children and family members are not provided. Visitor accommodations are available in Sheridan.

Each resident receives a $300 stipend distributed in weekly installments to help defray the cost of living and food expenses during the residency.

• The application fee is $30. The fee is non-refundable and cannot be waived.

• A $100 reservation deposit is due one month after notification of the residency award and confirms participation in the residency. The deposit is non-refundable if the reservation is cancelled less than two months before the residency is scheduled to start.

• Aside from the application fee, there are no additional charges to attend the residency.

Jentel’s review panelists are visual art, literary, and music professionals who review and rate applications twice a year. Panelists are routinely rotated.

Through our partnership programs, a limited number of artists are invited to attend the residency without an application submission.