The Wedding Cake House offers short term, project based residencies with a focus on mid-career artists. 

No one’s coming to save us - Residency season 2027

Election day 2026 is Nov 3rd and pretty much everything is at stake and also what it will take to change course goes miles beyond the horizon of electoral politics. Yes the arts sector has been decimated, but also everything has been decimated: Happy Birthday USA! For this residency season we are encouraging artists to apply whose starting point is “yes, this is an absolutely a low point in America, particularly in the arts, and everyone is exhausted, but I’m figuring out a way to attempt to create in this time, that is responsive to this moment.” Maybe you are opening new metaphoric portals, or maybe you have an idea to literally run through a house slamming doors. Who knows, but your project is “in it” with all of the chronic chaos that 2026 has to offer. This does not mean that what you’re working on has to be “social practice” or “political art”, but we’re hoping to have a season of working with artists who are managing being in this moment in interesting ways. “Interesting” might often be a polite way of saying fucked up, but a little bit beautiful. 

Are you eyeballs deep in a project that strategizes new economic models? Writing poems about the emotional stress of “losing” in any variety of ways? Doing data visualization about profit distributions of data mining? Collaborating with a scientist to humanize our understanding of the effects of global warming? Viciously satirizing wellness industry profiteering and health care dysfunction? Come hang out and work in a Victorian Mansion run by feminists before feminists are all loaded onto a barge going nowhere. Do we have answers: no. Do we have everything that you’ll need to be fully supported wrestling in the existential chasm: probably also no, but you’ll be housed and depending on what residency model you opt for maybe even fed. There are no fees for the residency or to apply, so all you have to lose is the time that you take to explain yourself, and our hope is that maybe that explaining will be helpful anyway in some way. Non-artists collaborating with artists are welcome to be part of a duo.

This coming season we are taking applications for the full suit of our residency offerings. We are no longer limiting applications geographically to artists who live in New England, however preference will be given to artists from New England and Rhode Island in particular. We are not accepting International applications this year and are generally more interested in working with artists from 2nd cities than Metropolitan art-hubs..

All applicants are asked to read the Wedding Cake House Residency Info page in its entirety before applying to a residency at the Wedding Cake House. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to hit us up at weddingcakehouseresidencies@gmail.com​​

TIMELINE: 

• Sep 2nd Applications open

• October 15th - apps due

• Applicants notified the week of Dec 1st

Interlace Project Grants provide $6000 for the development and public presentation of new visual art projects by Providence-area artists.

Eligibility  

Lead applicants must currently live within a 10-mile radius of Providence and in the state of Rhode Island (see eligibility map), have resided in the Providence area of the state of Rhode Island for at least one year, and be a resident upon receipt of grant funding. Applicants must be practicing artists, be 18+, and cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program.   

Selection Criteria 

Applicants will be judged based on project description, feasibility, and representative work. Specifically, the following criteria will be applied to proposals:  

• Overall idea and vision, with an emphasis on the project’s relationship to the visual arts and to collaboration 
• Newness of the project, including in what ways the applicant takes risks in their practice/process/work
• Capacity of applicant to realize project on time and within budget 
• Potential impact on the artist’s and/or audience's growth 
• Relevance to, engagement with, and impact on Providence’s social, cultural, and/or geographic communities, histories, and contexts

Selection Process

The Interlace Grant Fund invites an independent panel to review and select projects for funding. The five-person jury includes national and local artists, curators, and/or arts professionals.  All jurors review and rank each proposal based on the stated criteria. During a convening administered by Interlace, panelists have the opportunity to discuss the highest-scoring proposals until they all agree on which projects will be awarded funding and how funds will be allocated. Jurors' identities are announced along with the Project Grant awardees.      

Grantee Responsibilities

• At the beginning of the grant period and upon submitting a W-9 and a signed contract, grantees will receive a third ($2000) of their grant funds. A second sum is disbursed mid-way through the project (this amount ranges from $2000 to $3400, based on project needs). Once the project is complete, grantees will be required to respond to a brief reflection survey (intended to help recipients reflect on the project in ways that may inform future creative pursuits as well as to help Interlace better-support future grantees). The remainder of the grant funds will be disbursed upon receipt of the final survey as well as project documentation. 
• Grantees will maintain communication with Interlace throughout the grant period and participate in a small number of cohort activities.
• Grantees are responsible for at least one free public presentation or sharing of the funded project. 
• Grantees are legally responsible for all events, materials, outcomes, etc. connected with their projects.
• Grantees will periodically contribute text, visuals, and other materials for Interlace promotions and archives.

 For more information please visit interlacefund.org

INTERLACE GRANT FUND: INTERLACE EMERGENCY GRANTS
 

Interlace Emergency Grants are intended to mitigate the harmful effects of emergency situations and crises. These grants are meant to function as small interventions and expressions of support and solidarity with local visual artists. Emergency Grants are open to self-identifying visual artists whose primary residence is within a 10-mile radius of Providence and in the state of Rhode Island. Interlace is able to distribute up to $1250 per month in grants of up to $500.   If applicants do not receive funding, they may re-apply. If applicants do receive funding but the amount is less than $500, they may re-apply as long as they do not receive more than $500 total during the calendar year.

ELIGIBILITY
 

• Applicants must currently live within a 10-mile radius of Providence and in the state of Rhode Island
• Applicants must have resided in the Providence area of the state of Rhode Island for at least one year, and be a resident upon receipt of grant funding
• Applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program
• applicants must be 18+
• applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program
• Applicants must be able to receive a check in their legal name, if awarded funds
• If applicants do not receive funding, they may re-apply. If applicants do receive funding but the amount is less than $500, they may re-apply as long as they do not receive more than $500 total during the calendar year

In the spirit of generosity and compassion for fellow visual artists, applicants are encouraged to apply using the honor system: if you do not need this grant to mitigate the effects of an emergency situation, please consider forgoing an application to increase the chances for whom these grants would be most beneficial.  Grantees will be notified as close to the 7th of the month as possible and no later than the 21st of the month.

              For more information please visit https://www.interlacefund.org/relief-grants