nature, art & habitat residency

This season is closed; check back in a few months for the 2025 theme and open call.

Nature, Art & Habitat Residency: ECO-Laboratory of multidisciplinary practices is an international program with a satellite opportunity in Santa Ynez. The call is open to artists, researchers and scientists engaged in projects of study and emulation of nature.

The 2024 topic is Fire. Fire, as an elemental force that has shaped the very fabric of existence on earth, permeates every aspect of all life forms. From the depths of the Earth's core to the celestial bodies that adorn the skies, fire is an omnipresent phenomenon.

NAHR is offered to a professional or university student active in different bio-inspired fields: design, architecture, anthropology, botany, natural sciences, literature, poetry, technology, economics, or an identifiable interdisciplinary blend of these. The program offers a lively space to productively think and create, collaborate and interact, and take full advantage of the surrounding natural landscapes, as well as the area’s rich material culture, which combines vernacular traditions with innovative approaches to space, place, people and the communities.

Selection priority will be given to proposals that direct engagement with the surrounding nature and human habitat, through both objectives and methods, and to those that reveal the ability to leave a mark on the Santa Ynez territory.

• 2024 Call Closed

• residency runs 2 weeks multiple times throughout the year, starting on a Sunday and concluding on a Saturday