Artists in Residence Program

The Mendocino Art Center offers an Artist in Residence program each year from September through May. One- to nine-month residencies are available in ceramics, digital arts, fine art, jewelry/metalsmithing, sculpture and textiles. The program offers the working artist and craftsperson, emerging or established, a welcome retreat from the usual routine of everyday life and a chance to develop a body of work, while striving for personal and artistic growth.

They become members of the Mendocino Coast community, many of them living in apartments on the Art Center campus and teaching a variety of art subjects to county schoolchildren, as part of the Art Center's free, hand-on art field trips.

All Media
All Ages
All Backgrounds
All Over the Globe

Contact the department coordinators for details: Email coordinators from our Contact page or call (707) 937-5818 or (800) 653-3328.

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Studio Space in Intimate Surroundings

Opportunity for participation in the annual exhibition.

Jewelry and metal-making facilities include casting and enameling equipment, sand blaster, rolling mill and hydraulic press equipment.

The Ceramics program offers wood, salt, soda, raku, sagger, reduction and electric kiln use.

Foundry for casting bronze and aluminum, gas forges and anvils for blacksmithing, TIG, MIG and oxy-acetylene welding, air compressor for pneumatic tools and sand blasting.

Digital Arts Lab equipped with G4 Macs, scanner, Epson 3000 large format printer and projector. All the latest software, including Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8 & Painter 6.

Textiles offers a surface design studio with a deep sink for Shibori, or screen washing, large burners for dyeing or steaming. The weaving studio has a variety of loom styles and widths.

The Fine Art program offers studio space with lockers, an electric press and other amenities.