Trillium Arts is a residency center in the Blue Ridge Mountains where regional, national and international artists working in various disciplines find time and space to create their best new work. It is a place where creativity flourishes at the confluence of art, community and ecology.

A residency at Trillium is a place and time where artists can go to work on their art. Residencies are research-and-development labs for the arts, providing artists with time, space, and support for the creation of new work and the exploration of new ideas. Supporting artist in the creation of new work is essential to human progress — not as a luxury, not as a leisure activity, but as a vital and necessary force in society. Artists’ residencies are not about retreat; they are about advancement. Advancing creativity. Advancing human progress. Advancing the way we examine the world.


Banner Photos: Stewart/Owen Dance by Tanja Kuic. The Seldoms rehearsing in the Odonata Farm barn, photography by Andrew Glatt. Artist in Residence, Philamonjaro, with dancer/choreographer, Aparna Keshaviah. Photo by Casey Brown. Inaugural “Miss Sarah” Fellowship awardee, Ida Harris with E. Patrick Johnson, Phil Reynolds and Heather Hartley. Photo by Roderick Hawkins. Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape rehearsing “Ethos II: Inception” at Trillium Arts. Cyanotype fabric created by Evie Lovett, Individual Artist in Residence, Fall, 2021, recent pottery created by WNC potter and Trillium Arts sponsored artist, Donald Ray. Trillium Arts Board members at a Red Barn event with 2022 ACE Fellow, Alejandro Cerrudo. Photo by Camilla Calnan. The Seldoms experimenting in the trees, photography by Andrew Glatt.

Photographed on location at Trillium Arts.