Organizer Information
The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (ADKX), is a museum located in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, dedicated to exploring the history, culture, environment, and communities of the Adirondack region. Through its exhibitions, collections, educational programming, and public activities, the museum connects visitors with the region’s heritage and creative traditions. Its Artist-in-Residence Program invites artists to develop original work inspired by the Adirondacks, the museum’s collections, and its natural surroundings while engaging visitors in their creative process.
Title & Description
Adirondack Experience Artist-in-Residence Program 2027
The 2027 Adirondack Experience Artist-in-Residence Program offers four artists a one-month residency on the museum’s campus during the summer and early autumn. The program is designed for artists whose practices have a direct connection to the visual arts and who can draw inspiration from the natural environment, cultural heritage, and historical collections of the Adirondacks.
Selected artists will develop their own body of work in public areas of the museum grounds and interact informally with visitors. They will also facilitate participatory creative activities in the museum’s Art Lab, providing opportunities for visitors to experience artistic processes firsthand. The residency emphasizes independent artistic development, public engagement, and connections between contemporary creative practice and regional history.
Categories
- Visual Art
- Painting
- Drawing
- Illustration
- Sculpture
- Photography
- Textile Art
- Craft
- Mixed Media
- Digital Art
- Performance Art, and other cultural disciplines with a direct connection to the visual arts.
Eligibility
The opportunity is open internationally to artists of all nationalities, genders, races, religions, abilities, and sexual orientations. Applicants must demonstrate a connection to the visual arts and submit a portfolio containing 8–15 works, including at least five works previously exhibited in museums, public, university, or private galleries, or sold to private collectors. Sales through Etsy and similar online craft retailers do not satisfy this requirement.
Applicants must explain their relationship to the Adirondacks and how the residency would benefit their artistic practice. Digital-first and performance artists must additionally explain how visitors will experience and understand their creative process while the artist works. Applications lacking this statement will not be considered.
International applicants are responsible for obtaining any required visas or documentation and covering associated costs. ADKX cannot sponsor visas but can provide confirmation of a residency offer.
Program Benefits & Awards
- Artist stipend: $5,000 for the one-month residency.
- Travel allowance: $500.
- Accommodation: Free on-site housing in a private, lockable bedroom, with shared bathroom, kitchen, dining, laundry facilities, utilities, Wi-Fi, and parking.
- Art Lab materials: A $250 allowance for materials used in visitor activities.
- Creative research: Limited access to museum collection storage areas for studying, sketching, and documenting collection objects, subject to scheduling.
- Public engagement: Opportunities to share artistic processes with museum visitors and collaborate with staff.
- Additional paid opportunities: Selected artists may be invited to deliver external cultural programs or propose workshops. These engagements are optional, separately compensated, and subject to agreement.
- Artwork purchase opportunity: The museum receives the first option to purchase one work created during the residency at fair market value. Purchase is not guaranteed.
Artists must supply their own materials for personal artwork, except for materials used in the Art Lab activities.
Application Fee
Noone
How to Apply?
Application email: cbraunstein@theadkx.org
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: 11 December 2026
- Deadline for questions: 30 November 2026.
- Application deadline: December 11, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).
- Interviews: Early February 2027, conducted via Zoom.
- Selection notification: By February 20, 2027.
- Residency periods: One month each in June, July, August, and September 2027.
Location
New York, United States
Additional Details
Artists must work in public areas of the museum grounds at least three days per week, approximately 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., for a minimum of six hours per day. They must also spend Fridays and Saturdays, approximately 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., in the Art Lab, developing their work and facilitating short, hands-on activities for visitors. Activities should be accessible, relatively brief, and allow participants to take home a finished piece.
Each artist must deliver a 15–20-minute presentation to museum staff near the end of the residency. Selection is conducted by a panel of museum staff, regional artists, and arts leaders. The panel considers diversity of artistic media and the museum’s commitment to supporting under-collected and under-represented artists.
Applicants should note that the residence building has stairs, bathroom facilities are shared, and pets are not permitted on campus.