Short Description
Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania for June – September 2026.
Verpėjos’ Creative Pastures residency programme will invite interdisciplinary artists to work on their own proposed art research project in our given frame, conditions and aims: to explore and rethink the themes of traditional rural lifestyle and nature conservation, to empower discourse on processes and changes both locally and globally. Three selected artists will stay and work in a homestead with traditional log house, a courtyard, garden, and various outbuildings, living for two months together and sharing the responsibility of shepherding the herd of 40 sheep.
Eligibility
All interdisciplinary artists of every race, gender identity, age or cultural background who are legally residing in the Nordic Region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland) or the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) are welcome to apply.
Two artists from Lithuania and four from the Nordic Region and Estonia and Latvia will be invited.
Submission Requirements
- Personal Info
- CV
- Portfolio
- Short Biography
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
Each participant is to receive a grant of EUR 1400, travel grant EUR 400 (except artists from Lithuania) and 200 Eur for materials.
Living spaces: Three participants will stay in an old log house and small log cabin in the village of Kabeliai, within the residency’s premises. In the small, simply furnished living house there are two rooms, shared kitchen and a bathroom (plumbing, hot water, wood-burning stoves for cooking and bread baking, cold cellar, wi-fi.). One living space is furnished at the separate log cabin. Bicycles are available.
Working spaces: log house studio 35m² with wood heating and cooking stove, cold cellar and library. Outdoor spaces 600m² with orchard, garden, old oak and linden trees and fireplace. Equipment: manual tools for woodworking (hammers, axes, handsaws, planes, chisels, carving knives, workbench) and for wool processing (hand carders, spindles, spinning wheels, winder, niddy-noddy, swift), traditional weaving loom, felting mats, wool dyeing pots and supplies.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Lithuania
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 14 August 2025
Website Link: https://verpejos.lt/call-for-creators-to-submit-applications-verpejos-creative-pastures-26/?lang=en
