New Pacific Studio, Vallejo - Facilities
The second floor in the house is available to visiting artists and provides internet connections, two rooms, a small balcony and a private bathroom. The former coach house in the rear garden is ideal for painting, writing or composing.Downstairs there is a small sitting room and spacious kitchen, opening onto rear decks and a tree-filled garden.
Residency fee is $300 per week. The Director occupies the downstairs study/bedroom. Use of a car is negotiable.
Vallejo kitchen
Upstairs bathroom
Upstairs room
Back yard wood chips
Melba Abela - Blue Lotus Hand
Leila and Mary Curtis, c. 1857. Both girls were trained in engraving at
Cooper Union in New York and Mary became a well-known Californian artist,
Mary Curtis Richardson. Her parents built the Vallejo house.
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Residency:
New Pacific Studio, Vallejo
New Pacific Studio–California (NPS-CA) offers working residencies for artists, writers, scholars and environmentalists at its tranquil historic cottage and spacious garden studio in Vallejo, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area.
Residencies (one or two persons max.) are available annually from 2013 for periods from 1 week to three months between April-July and October-December. Internships are also available.
We are a member of Res Artis and registered as a 501(c) (3) charitable organization. We welcome donations and bequests.
Vallejo cottage front view
Vallejo cottage street view
Amenities
20ft x 8 ft drywall in studio, concrete floor, track lighting. Printer, Internet. Linen supplied. Set in tree-filled gardens, good walking/jogging, quiet house. Self-catering, shared use of kitchen/laundry with resident co-director. Free pick-up from Vallejo hotel. Use of Nissan Sentra for local travel available for a nominal fee.
Artwork by Anne Lamborn and Terra Fuller in Vallejo studio space.
Novelist David Ke
Poet Jim Ferris
Dramatist Cynthia Croot
Eligibility
Practising artists, writers, composers and curators. Special interest in Pacific north-south connections.