How to Apply to an Artist Residency

I asked Artsmith’s Executive
Director, Jill McCabe Johnson, what Artsmith looks for in residency applications. Jill doesn’t make the
selections for the Artsmith residency herself, by the way—a rotating panel of
poets, prose writers, and artists make those decisions each year. Jill’s sense
is that the writing sample (or portfolio) is by far the most important element
of the application package