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What Makes this event different?

This is artist residency is an opportunity for artists, writers, and performers. Be inspired by one of the world's most iconic desert landscapes. This is a unique Location and experience for artists! This artist residency is open to solo artists and couples.

Image Usage Rights

Selected Artists will allow their artwork/personal images to be used in promotion of the NPAF programs. The Artist retains copyright of all work, with the exception of any work optionally donated though NPAF to the National Park Service collection.

Call to Artists for an Artist Residency in Death Valley

January is really the ideal month to live and work in the center of one the most iconic landscapes in America, Death Valley National Park, which is nature’s masterpiece of erosion and desolation. Death Valley is close to the Mesquite Flats dunes and Zabriskie Point, and less than 2 hours from the beautiful Alabama Hills. Stovepipe Wells (Death Valley, CA) is the heart of Death Valley National Park, and lies directly across from the legendary dunes of the park. This call to artists is open to all artists, writers musicians or performance artists. Meals are included.

Residency Overview:
$3,000 stipend
Housing in a modern air-conditioned hotel room in Stovepipe Wells Village, this residency includes all the hotel amenities including swimming pool, plus daily food courtesy of the Toll Road Restaurant.
Venue for Artist Presentation (possibly virtual)

Final Submission Deadline: February 24, 2022

Location: The largest National Park in the lower 48 states was discovered on the heels of the Gold Rush, silver and gold were discovered in the Valley in the 1850s. Mule-drawn wagons and fortune seekers flooded the Valley to extract mineral resources like the boron salts used in Borax and chloride ores. In 1925, an entrepreneur built the original hotel at Stovepipe Wells. In 1933, President Hoover declared Death Valley under federal protection as Death Valley National Monument. In 1994, it was re-designated Death Valley National Park and expanded to its current size of three MILLION acres of Mojave Desert ecology straddling both California and Nevada.

For more information please visit the Event Website or click to Apply!