Program - Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
About This Opportunity
For eight decades, Skowhegan has offered artists the opportunity to engage within an experimental framework based on the idea of sharing knowledge and skills within and among artists. 2026 Summer Program: June 6–August 8, 2026 Applications will be accepted from September 1, 2025 through October 17, 2025 (11:59PM EST).
Program Overview
**Application Deadline ** October 17, 2025 (11:59 PM EST)
2026 Summer Program
June 6–August 8, 2026
**Application Fee Schedule **
$20 USD: September 11–September 16, 2025
$50 USD: September 17–October 13, 2025
$80 USD: October 14–October 17, 2025
During the nine-week program, artists working across all disciplines have the opportunity to live as a community of peers on Skowhegan’s 350-acre campus in rural Maine. Participants dedicate time to their studio practices while engaging in a collective learning process through a variety of skill-sharing and theoretical workshops, group and individual studio visits, performances, lectures, and reading groups. Based on a transversal open structure, Skowhegan creates a space where participants collaboratively design the program’s contents alongside an international and distinguished group of residents and visiting artists who serve as faculty. In a continuously work-in-progress environment, which prioritizes process and exchange, each individual’s practice contributes to the collective experience, discussing what “making” means to artists.
Restrictions
artists from all over the world and working in all disciplines are welcome to apply to Skowhegan. We are particularly interested in emerging artists with an interdisciplinary studio practice.
What's Offered
Additional Resources
Studios, workspaces, lodging, daily meals, technical facilities, fresco workshop, library, outdoors spaces