2025 Anderson Center Artist Residency Open Call

Anderson Center Opens Applications for 2025 Resident Artists

The Anderson Center at Tower View is happy to announce that the applications for 2025 Artist Residencies are now open. Anderson Center is a rare, rural oasis, a place that celebrates the imagination and supports the development of new arts and ideas through residencies. 2025 is the 30th anniversary of the Artist Residency Program.

Anderson Center will offer three programs in 2025 that are now accepting applicants including a 2025 Salzburg exchange residency, Early Career Artist Residency Program, and the signature Artist Residency Program. Deadline for the Salzburg exchange is November 15, 2024, and deadlines for the early career and general artist residencies are January 14, 2025. Applications must be submitted on or before the deadline to be considered in the jury review period.

Work created at the Anderson Center has received some of the most prestigious international awards in creative fields, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and funding from the Nation­al Endowment for the Arts. Since 1995, more than 900 residents have come to the Anderson Center from 46 states and more than 40 foreign countries.

Anderson Center uses the word “artist” broadly to mean those work­ing in visual, literary, and performing arts, including those whose work doesn’t fit neatly into categories and genres.

Salzburg Exchange

In partnership with Stadt-Salzburg, this program is an opportunity in July 2025 for visual artists living within the State of Minnesota to participate in an individual artist residency at the Künstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria. The program promotes cultural cooperation and is based on mutual exchange on equal terms.

Thanks to support from the City of Salzburg, the selected visual artist receives a live-in studio for one month at the Künstlerhaus, also home to the acclaimed Salzburger Kunstverein, and a € 600 Euro stipend for food. Travel expenses to Salzburg and back to Minnesota are not covered. 

Application deadline is 12 p.m. Noon (Central Standard Time) on Nov. 15, 2024.  Selected artists, wait-list, and runners-up will be notified by January 3, 2025 at the latest.

Artist Residency Program

The Residency Program is open to emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, musicians, performance artists, scholars, and translators from across the globe. The program is interdisciplinary and the organization welcomes applications from a wide range of creative and intellectual genres, including those that don't fit neatly into the above list.

For the 2025 season, the Anderson Center is offering two week or month-long residencies in August and October with preference for month long stays. Specific start and end dates are listed in the application form. There is a $30 fee for applying to this residency program.

SELECTION TIMELINE

January 14, 2025 (12:00 p.m. Noon CST) – application deadline

February 7, 2025 – Jury has selected Round 2 applications. All artists are notified of the status of their application 

March 4, 2025– Final notification to selected artists, wait-list and runners-up

Early Career Artist Residency

The Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency Program offers month-long residency-fellowships to a cohort of early-career artists from Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City. Thanks to support from the Jerome Foundation, the program offers a stipend & travel honorarium and provides early-career artists in need of focused time and dedicated space with an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving.

SELECTION TIMELINE

January 14, 2025 (12:00 p.m. Noon CST) – application deadline

February 7, 2025 – Jury has selected Round 2 applications. All artists are notified of the status of their application 

March 4, 2025– Final notification to selected artists, wait-list and runners-up

About the Anderson Center Residency Program

Founded in 1995 on the Tower View estate in rural Red Wing, Minn., the Anderson Center has renovated and restored historic buildings to support working artists and the creative process. The organization’s signature Artist Residency Program provides groups of artists, writers, musicians, and performers with an ideal space to create innovative works of art that advance their practice and have a significant impact on society.

The Anderson Center at Tower View Residency Program was set-up by a working poet to support other artists and continues to be led by working artists. The Center does not dictate specific outcomes or arrange regular structured activities. Instead, the expectation is that the gift of time and space will generate significant advancements in residents' work. The Anderson Center trusts the artists to best use their time to benefit their own work and reach their own goals.

Please visit our website www.andersoncenter.org/residency-program/ for more information.