The mission of the Creative Residency program at Bloedel Reserve is to foster creative thinking that is inspired by nature and that explores the connection between humans and the environment. The program opportunity is described in more detail below. Watch this video to learn more.
2025 Creative Residency Application–Click Below to Apply
If you’d like to apply to be a Community Creative click here.
Meet the 2025 Jurors
Click the links below to see photos and learn more about the jurors for the 2025 Creative Residency.
Visual Arts (e.g., painting, photography, craft, sculpture, installation, 2D, 3D, digitally assisted)
Performance, Film & Composition (e.g., music, theater, dance, music composition, film, performance art)
Prose Fiction & Nonfiction (e.g., novels, short stories, essays, memoirs)
Research & Design (e.g. landscape design, scientific research, botanical illustration, etc.)
Learn More about our Creative Residents
Bloedel Reserve Fellowship Opportunity
We regret that the Bloedel Reserve Creative Fellowship will not be offered in 2025. We hope to make this opportunity available again in the future.
Creative Residency Requirements
- Your project, artwork, or research must relate to nature in some specific way.
- Special consideration will be given to projects that investigate the relationship between people and natural world.
- Once selected, each Creative Resident must offer a public presentation, workshop, lecture, demonstration, viewing, or concert as part of their Residency.
- Creative Residents must be 21-years of age, or older.
Residency Amenities
Established in 2015, the program has welcomed 70 Creative Residents from a wide variety of disciplines, giving them the time to nurture their passions and deepen the connection between creativity, nature, and humanity.
The Creative Residency program provides artists and innovative thinkers with a three-week stay in a home on the Bloedel Reserve grounds, pictured here. Residents have unlimited access to the Reserve’s 140 acres of sculpted gardens, forests, meadows, and wildlife habitats.
As a Creative Resident, you will stay in a two-bedroom, two-bath home designed by noted Northwest architect Jim Cutler, tucked into the woods, tucked away from the trail used by regular Bloedel Reserve visitors.
Known as the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Education Center, the home is built over a stream and features beautiful finishes and furnishings. Residents have 24/7 access to Bloedel Reserve grounds during their stay and the use of a Smart Car. (Proof of valid driver’s license required.)
The Creative Resident receives a $1000 stipend.
Website link: https://bloedelreserve.org/creative-residency/
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