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About The Residency Review

The Residency Review was created as a comprehensive resource for finding ceramic artist-in-residence programs. Finding the right program for individual artists always takes a good deal of research and time.

With this website, I hope to share my own personal research and experience to assist in searching through the vast amount of residency programs in the US. This is an independent project not affiliated with any Artist-in-Residence program or company.

Meet the Founder

My name is Sean Kennedy, and I am a ceramic artist based in Minnesota. I earned my BFA in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls in spring 2020, where I developed a deep appreciation for clay and the sense of community that surrounds strong ceramic programs.

While in River Falls, I worked with Northern Clay Center as an NCECA intern and later as a seasonal sales and gallery assistant, gaining valuable experience on both the professional and community-facing sides of ceramics. From 2021–2022, I completed an artist residency at Cub Creek Foundation in Virginia, where I expanded my practice through research into native clays and atmospheric firing. I continued my residency journey in Northern California at the Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project (2022–2023), focusing on functional pottery and figurative sculpture within an environmentally driven, rural setting.

Since fall 2023, I have traveled extensively throughout the United States to visit, research, and learn about ceramic residency programs firsthand. That work has grown into a comprehensive, curated resource of more than 159 residency programs supporting ceramic artists across all 50 states—the foundation of The Residency Review.

My goal is to make the residency search process more transparent, accessible, and useful for artists by sharing the information I have gathered through firsthand research and direct communication with residency programs.

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