Berkshire Art Center Announces
Berkshire Artist Residency Program 2025!

Since 2021 Chesterwood has been a proud partner with Berkshire Art Center’s Berkshire Artist Residency Program. Uniquely situated in a county that is rich in history and culture, BAC’s Berkshire Artist Residency Program pairs local artists with one of three cultural institutions: Chesterwood, Red Lion Inn and Herman Melville’s Arrowhead. Artists have the opportunity to create new work, reflect on their artistic visions, and participate in an Artist Talk to discuss their experience while exhibiting their work.

Eligibility

Preference given to full time Berkshire County residents
Artists should have experience exhibiting work
Artists should have a clear body of work
Artists may apply for one or all three residency sites

The 2024 Berkshire Artist Residency will take place between May 26 and September 1, 2025.
2025 Applications Open in February 2025 via the Berkshire Art Center’s website.
Questions? Email artists@berkshireartcenter.org

2025 Residency Sites & Benefits:

All selected artists receive access to the buildings and grounds of their site and receive support for the development, creation, and exhibition of their work. Artists will be fully immersed in the summer events at each location and invited to special events. Each residency closes with a reception and exhibition of the artist’s work.

RED LION INN, STOCKBRIDGE

The Red Lion Inn, now celebrating its seventh year as a Berkshire Artist Residency site, is an iconic landmark located in Stockbridge, MA, in the heart of the Berkshires. The inn’s distinctive warmth and character express timeless yet vibrant tradition. In addition to the Main Inn, the historic campus is home to Maple Glen, a 17-room guesthouse that features an unexpected twist on modern country. A number of unique guest houses are sprinkled throughout The Red Lion Inn Village, including a turn-of-the-century Firehouse. Artists will be selected after two rounds of review.

Benefits:

$250 monthly meal stipend at The Red Lion Inn
Studio Space (dependent on artist's medium and needs)
$125 Materials and Exhibition Stipend
Invitation to present an Artist Talk ($100 Stipend)
70% of Artwork Sales
Residency promotion through The Red Lion Inn and Berkshire Art Center websites/social media
Invitation to teach a summer class or workshop through Berkshire Art Center

CHESTERWOOD, STOCKBRIDGE

Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is the former summer home, studio, and gardens of America’s foremost public sculptor, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). French is best known for his Minute Man in Concord, MA and the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In his lifetime, however, he created over 100 public memorials and monuments across the country. Chesterwood has hosted contemporary artists since the 1970s and has been a participant in Berkshire Art Center’s residency program for the past 4 years, inviting artists to be inspired by the work of Daniel Chester French and the estate’s natural and built environment with views of the Berkshire hills in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Sculptors and visual artists in all mediums, including landscape architects and architects, are encouraged to apply. One artist will be selected.