Residencies in different countries, each in its own building, running one season together. A morning session in Tromsø opens to artists in Lisbon. A print studio’s notes become everyone’s. Nobody moves house — the work travels.
Foray Space is what makes that possible: each residency keeps its own brand, cohort and admissions, and shares the programme. Because every residency here runs online as well as on-site, an artist joins from the studio down the hall or the other side of the world.
These are separate residencies — different countries, different buildings, different cohorts, nothing merged. What follows is simply what crosses between them over a single week.
Separate residencies, in separate countries, sharing one programme. Here is a single week of it — each place still making its own work, and everything that crosses between them.
Tromsø walks the fjord with recorders. The session runs once — on foot for the artists who are there, live for everyone else. Five other places walk with them.
Shared: what the artists experience. Separate: everything a residency owns.
No directory of strangers, no automatic matching. A collective is a deliberate act between residencies that want to work together.
An organizer creates the collective and names it. It gets its own space — a feed, a calendar, a library, a roster — and they own it.
The owner invites another residency and chooses what that partner can do inside: run shared workshops, manage shared resources, add artists, moderate, or invite further brands themselves.
Nothing happens without both sides agreeing. The invited residency picks which of its cohorts comes in, and can decline. Pending invitations can be withdrawn.
A partner can never see another brand’s applicants. That isn’t a setting you remember to switch on — it is how the platform is built.
Run one cohort — in the building and across the world — in a single shared space where the making, the talking and the belonging reach everyone. It is also what makes a collective work: a shared session runs once, on-site for the artists who are there and live online for everyone else.
Artists in the building and artists at home share a single space — feed, chat, studio, portfolios. What happens on-site reaches everyone; nobody online is a second-class guest.
Workshops, critiques and drop-ins carry a join link, so an artist joins from the studio or the kitchen table. A session can keep its recording, so another timezone catches up.
Open online places from the very same call that fills your beds. Reach the artist who could never fly in — between shifts, across the world, up all night making.
A daily arc, a morning note, work-in-progress shared as it happens. The connection that makes a residency a residency — not a video call.
A branded open call and apply flow, a review queue, interviews and acceptance. Workshops, schedules and rooming that run themselves. A morning note to open each day, and a permanent archive you own when it ends. You bring the vision; the platform carries the rest — whether you run alone or in a collective.
It began as A Foray into… — a small, curated residency we ran ourselves. Five days of real making, a cohort that stayed in touch long after. And underneath it: a mess of spreadsheets, a shared inbox nobody could keep straight, a group chat that scrolled the week away the moment it ended.
Every good tool assumed a residency was a building with beds — and that it stood on its own. Ours wanted to reach the artist who couldn’t fly in, and to link arms with the residencies we admired instead of competing with them for the same few artists.
Foray Space is those tools, made for every residency but ours.
“A residency shouldn’t be limited by how many beds it has — or by how alone it has to stand.”
— the founders
One call about your residency: its name for things, its arc, its application questions, the moment that's unmistakably yours.
Your branded site, apply flow and cohort space — on your domain, in your voice. You review it like a proof, not a project plan.
Run all year on your own terms, and when you're ready, invite a residency into a shared space (or accept an invitation to one).
We’re onboarding a small group of founding residencies by hand — and the first collectives are forming now.
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