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Exploring Art and Culture in Costa Rica
STANDARD RESIDENCY FEE (Calculated in U.S. dollars)
HOMESTAY with partnering Host Family accommodations and workspace;
three meals daily, Monday - Friday, included.
Individual Artist
Additional nights per category above: $34 per night
Artist Couple (two artists or an artist with a non-artist companion, sharing a bedroom)
Additional nights per category above: $53 per night
OPTIONAL RESIDENCY FEE (Calculated in U.S. Dollars)
HOLISTIC WELLNESS CENTER accommodations and workspace with meals pay-as-you-go; not included in Residency Fee.
Individual Artist:
Additional nights per category above: $64 per night
Artist Couple (two artists or an artist with a non-artist companion, sharing a bedroom)
Additional nights per category above: $98 per night
Not covered by the Residency Fee:
Welcome to Costa Rica's premier Artist Residency since 2007
ODYSSEYS
Intercultural
We welcome your application as soon as you're ready, with no application fee. We do ask for a $2 USD processing fee. If this creates a hardship please contact us by email for an alternative method.
Save your application and return to it as often as you need, before sending it. Start any time, from this link on any of our pages:
WRITERS
Our writers are provided a private space with standard desk or table and chair (adjustable when possible).
COMPOSERS
Our composers are provided private work space for their own equipment, or the option of either a professional electronic keyboard in their accommodations/workspace, or access to a piano at SINEM, our local music institute, within a 15-minute walk from either Home Stay or Holistic Wellness Center accommodations. Composers working within the environments of either their Home Stay or our partnering Holistic Wellness Center, will need to be respectful of their surroundings, which may require use of earphones or other forms of working silently. In the private studio rooms of our local music institute, pianos are available and noise is not a factor.
VISUAL ARTISTS
Many of our visual artists are photographers, videographers, multi-media artists, muralists and plein air painters who work out and about. For those who work indoors our host families typically have indoor and covered outdoor garden areas with natural light and space for work. This requires ingenuity and flexibility on the part of the artist, but has worked well for many over the years.
Visual artists who require more formal indoor studio space must request this during the application process and must understand that this may only be available with our partnering Holistic Wellness Center accommodation option. Though in general, equipment and supplies are the responsibility of each artist, we are often able to provide at least one large work table per artist.
Though not guaranteed due to various logistical factors, over the years many of our visual artists have exhibited publicly during their artist's residency, often at the end, at appropriate local venues such as SiNEM (Institute for the National System of Music Education) the Figueres Museum and Cultural Center and our favorite venue for events that combine readings, music in concert and visual art, Costa Rica Regional Museum of San Ramón. As well as at the National Museum and National Gallery in our country's capital city, San Jose.
More feasible for visual artists who wish to exhibit during their residency is an exhibit in a sizeable salon in the entry of our partnering Holistic Wellness Center. Some artists have chosen to finish their work back at home and send it to be exhibited in one of the venues above. Others have returned for a follow-up residency to include more work and an exhibit of their completed work so far.
WHAT TO EXPECT AS AN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE WITH ODYSSEYS COSTA RICA
We at Intercultural ODYSSEYS Costa Rica are proud to have hosted artists from as far abroad as Newfoundland, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Germany, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, USA, and England (including the remote island of Guernsey, of the English Channel islands) - and growing.
Spanish is our local language with English spoken widely, and we've hosted artists who spoke neither. Those are the challenges we love. So if you can imagine your project and have the professional skills to make it happen during your residency, we do everything possible to provide you with the uninterrupted time, space, and inspiration you need.
We provide each artist-in-residence with the following:
Two weekly events hosted by ODYSSEYS, always optional, integrating all artists in residence: