The Wormfarm Institute’s Residency program is designed to support artists and writers by giving them the time, space and facilities to further their creative development. The Wormfarm also provides artists with a venue to collaborate and share their work.

See how some of our artists have benefited from our visiting artist program:

Ramon Lopez, a native of Barcelona, Spain, Resident Artist 2004

“Wormfarm, Donna and Jay’s wonderful invention that links artistic creation with organic agriculture, makes for extraordinary results. These results benefit the artists, the community and Wormfarm itself. While there, I was working in three different ways: creating my own paintings, contributing to local cultural projects, and helping in the garden. It was gratifying to see how the development of each of these activities was enriched by the influence of the other two.

“Working in the garden was essential for establishing my vital connection with the earth and to remove from myself the feeling of being just a visitor. It was a key activity for joining with the landscape I wanted to reflect in my paintings. Ultimately it permitted me to feel a part of what I observed and painted…”
- Ramon Lopez

Mixed media quilts by Loey Colbeck

“There was so much space for my head to open into at the Wormfarm. The daily changes of weather and plant life cycles were shaping my reality as I was shaping my ideas, processes and projects.”
- Loey Colbeck