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

Vallejo kitchen

Upstairs bathroom

Upstairs bathroom

Upstairs room

Upstairs room

Back yard wood chips

Back yard wood chips

Melba Abela blue lotus hand

Melba Abela - Blue Lotus Hand

Leila and Mary Curtis

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 house front

Vallejo cottage front view

Our neighborhood: Vallejo street 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

Artwork by Anne Lamborn and Terra Fuller in Vallejo studio space.



Novelist-David-Ke

Novelist David Ke

Poet Jim Ferris

Poet Jim Ferris

Dramatist Cynthia Croot

Dramatist Cynthia Croot


Eligibility

Practising artists, writers, composers and curators. Special interest in Pacific north-south connections.

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