Miami, FL - The application cycle for 2025 Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) residencies will open on January 6, 2025. The application will close after the first 500 applications are received, or latest on February 3, 2025 at 11:59pm.

Online Info Session - December 12, 2024, 5 - 6 pm

AIRIE believes artists are uniquely positioned to engage communities for a more inclusive and just future. Over the course of the residency season, AIRIE is investigating what it means to create affirming space in the outdoors, and how creativity can be a catalyst for social and environmental change.

AIRIE applications are reviewed by prominent regional leaders and experts in our National Advisory Panel. Panelists review applications in search of the highest quality proposals that can best make use of this unique experience to live, work and learn from the Everglades, taking into consideration the linkage between art, environment and culture, as it is embedded and reflected in their work and proposal. Following this competitive process, a specter group of artists or artist groups across disciplines are invited to be Artists in Residence in Everglades for the 2025/2026 season. 

AIRIE welcomes proposals from visual artists, writers, scholars, composers, designers, musicians, choreographers and other creatives.  During their residencies, AIRIE Fellows engage with park rangers, scientists, environmental advocates, community and cultural leaders to enhance their understanding and experience in this fragile ecosystem that covers the southern tip of the state of Florida.

Residents are provided a $5,500 residency stipend from AIRIE, an air-conditioned studio cabin on park property near the Homestead, FL entrance to the park and 24/7 park access.

For additional information, visit www.airie.org or email heather@airie.org. All potential applicants are invited to attend the online information session and free public events that will elaborate upon the resident experience, and offer opportunities to attend and engage with AIRIE staff and former residents.

Artists in Residence in Everglades is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,-, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, Green Family Foundation,  National Endowment for the Arts, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners of Miami-Dade County, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida, and Wege Foundation. Artists in Residence in Everglades, Inc. is an Official Partner of the Everglades National Park.

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About Artists In Residence In Everglades (AIRIE):

Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit operating in Everglades National Park (ENP) and the Greater Miami Area. AIRIE empowers artists to think creatively and critically about their relationship to the environment with a mission of revealing new narratives and solutions for social and environmental change. AIRIE's immersive residency program provides artists an opportunity to live, research, and create inside Everglades National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site currently listed as in danger of disappearing forever.

Through a gallery space and programming, AIRIE explores the intersection of arts and the environment with social and racial justice for a more sustainable and equitable future. Since 2001 AIRIE has supported over 200 artists, writers, musicians, curators, and creatives through full immersion within the national park and the Miami art scene. Learn more about the organization at airie.org and on Instagram at @airieverglades.