The Hambidge Center runs a self-directed residency on a 600-acre wooded campus in the North Georgia mountains. Residents receive private combined work-and-living studios and structure their own creative time, without required workshops, critiques, or production outcomes.
The program serves professional practitioners in the arts, culture, culinary arts, writing, performance, craft, and science. The current application window is for the Spring 2027 session, which runs from mid-February through May.
Benefits & funding
- Each resident receives a private studio with living space, a bathroom, and a full kitchen; WiFi is available in a communal building rather than in the studios.
- Vegetarian communal dinners are provided Tuesday through Friday; residents cover their other meals, travel, equipment, and supplies.
- The standard residency fee is $300 per week, and the application fee is $30. Applicants for whom the application fee is a barrier may request a waiver at least four days before the deadline.
- Merit-based Distinguished Fellowships waive the fees for a two-week residency and provide a $700 stipend. Unless an award says otherwise, these fellowships are for first-time residents.
- Limited financial aid for accepted residents averages $250 and is capped at $500.
- Standard stays are two to eight weeks. One-week stays are limited to Arts & Culture Administrator and Culinary applicants, eight-week stays are scheduled only in Spring and Fall, and Summer stays are capped at four weeks.
Eligibility
- Applicants must treat their creative practice as a professional practice rather than a hobby and demonstrate quality of work and professional promise. Emerging, mid-career, and established practitioners may apply.
- Eligible disciplines include arts and culture administration, culinary arts, dance and choreography, music and composition, performance, science, craft, visual arts, and writing.
- Applicants from all countries may apply. A working understanding of English is required; writers working in another language must submit samples in both the original language and English translation.
- No degree, age, gender, nationality, or residency restriction is stated.
- Former Hambidge residents must wait two years before returning and must submit a new application with recent work.
- Collaborators apply individually and identify all collaborators in the residency questions.
Can you apply?
Open to all applicants
No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.
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Application process
- 1Review the residency guidelines and FAQs, then choose the discipline that best matches the professional practice.
- 2Submit the electronic application through Hambidge’s SlideRoom portal by September 15, 2026.
- 3Provide responses explaining why this is the right time for a Hambidge residency and how it would advance the practice, plus a 300-word bio, a one-page résumé or CV, preferred dates, and discipline-specific recent work samples.
- 4Applicants requesting financial aid complete the required forms within five days after acceptance and may need to provide financial documentation.
- 5Hambidge sends decisions by email approximately seven to eight weeks after the deadline.
Program timeline
August 1, 2026
Spring 2027 applications open.
Application deadline.
September 15, 2026
Approximately seven to eight weeks after the deadline
Decisions sent by email.
Spring residency session; individual arrival and departure dates vary by award.
Mid-February through May 2027