Your Time at Dorland Mountain Arts

This program is closed—Applications are no longer being accepted.

ResidencyClosed

Closed

Applications close

Sep 3, 202611:59 PM UTC

Duration1–6 weeks

This program is no longer accepting applications.

Closed

Applications close

Sep 3, 202611:59 PM UTC

Duration1–6 weeks

This program is no longer accepting applications.

Deadline: Sep 3, 2026Closed
Location: California, PA, United StatesOn-site
Duration: 1–6 weeksSep 15 – Dec 31, 2026
Funding: Unfunded

About the program

Dorland Mountain Arts Residency is a beautiful retreat where artists, writers, musicians and composers can create in a secluded and protected natural setting. Dorland invites residency requests from visual, literary (or other writing) and composing or performing artists. Individual cottages are complete with WiFi, window AC, kitchen, bathroom, workspace and a covered porch with mountain, canyon and Temecula Valley views; one cottage includes a Steinway baby grand piano and another a Kimball baby grand. The Community Arts Center provides a library, a large writing desk with a typewriter, a meeting room and a studio room for visual artists, and the Jane Culp Studio offers a small printing press perfect for monotypes, collagraph and linocut.

What's included

Studio
The Community Arts Center provides a library with Dorland works and a large writing desk with a typewriter, a meeting room, and a studio room for visual artists. There are work tables and a small printing press perfect for monotypes, collagraph and linocut in the Jane Culp Studio. Each cottage also includes a workspace.
Housing
Artist cottages are complete with WiFi, window AC, good cell phone reception, kitchen, bathroom, workspace, and a covered porch with magnificent mountain, canyon and Temecula Valley views.

Residency details

Residency typeLive-in residency

Duration1 – 6 weeks

SchedulingFlexible within range

Shared facilities

Community Arts Center (library, writing desk with typewriter, meeting room, studio room for visual artists); Jane Culp Studio (small printing press, work tables); grounds with reflecting pond, small lake with rowboat and hiking trails

Eligibility

International

Disciplines: Visual Art, Art Writing, Music Composition, Performance Art

The Residency Program provides a secluded working retreat for national and international artists, writers, musicians and composers.

Timeline

Applications close
Sep 3, 2026
11:59 PM UTC
Program begins
Sep 15, 2026
Through Dec 31, 2026

How selection works

Candidates for residency are reviewed in order of Dorland's receipt of the completed applications. If the candidate is approved by the review board, a contract and request for deposit will be sent.

Reviewed by a jury.

Dorland Mountain Arts

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Secluded artist residency retreat in Southern California mountains.

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