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Retreats & camps/Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

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Kimmel Harding Nelson Center — 2027 Session One.

with Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts — “Since 2001, KHN has awarded more than 1400 residencies to working visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists”, at up to seventy-eight juried residencies a year · listed Aug 11Verified · Aug 11
Closes
September 1
closed
Entry
$35 to apply; no residency fee
the application fee is stated non-waivable; travel is the awardee’s own, except cab fare from nearby airports
Your week
Two to eight weeks in Nebraska with housing
a private studio and a $175 weekly food stipend
Your rights
Nothing about rights in work created during the residency appears in the captured terms — the residency and how-to-apply pages, captured August 11, 2026.

Three weeks’ notice, and composers are first in the eligibility line: applications close September 1, 2026 for 2027 Session One, which runs January 4 to June 25, 2027. Residencies are two to eight weeks long inside that window.

One number goes out and two come back. The $35 application fee is stated non-waivable. In return, each resident receives housing, a private studio and a $175 weekly food stipend — so an eight-week residency carries $1,400 of stipend against a $35 application. Travel is the awardee’s own responsibility, apart from cab fare from the nearby airports, which the Center covers.

The organizer publishes its own track record in a sentence: “Since 2001, KHN has awarded more than 1400 residencies to working visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists”, at up to seventy-eight juried residencies a year. Neither captured page says anything about rights in the work made there.

The record
Source
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center residency page and its how-to-apply page (khncenterforthearts.org), both captured August 11, 2026.
Who can apply
“Composers, writers, visual and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world.” The application names Music Composition as one of four discipline categories.
What it costs
A “$35 application fee”, stated non-waivable, paid through the online portal. No residency fee is charged. “Each resident receives housing, a private studio, and a $175 weekly food stipend.” “All travel expenses are the responsibility of the awardee”, except cab fare from nearby airports. Captured August 11, 2026.
Your weeks
“Residencies are 2 to 8 weeks in length”, inside 2027 Session 1: January 4 – June 25, 2027. Housing with a private bedroom, bathroom and studio.
Deadline
September 1, 2026, awarding residencies in January–June 2027. The following deadline, March 1, 2027, awards July–December 2027.
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