Getting That Art Residency

Learn how to research, get, and even make an art residency in a workshop with artist Lexa Walsh.

Get resources and key tips for applying to residencies for all kinds of disciplines, including visual, performance, movement, writing, and more.

Lexa Walsh is an artist and cultural worker based in Oakland who works in her practice as anthropologist, archivist, curator, facilitator and experience-maker. She knows residencies inside-out. She has not only attended many, but has also worked at a few, and has created some of her own. She has taught professional development workshops at the Alliance of Artist Communities Conference, Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Institute, the Union for Contemporary Art, and organizes the finding dinner series Oakland Stock.