APPLICATIONS

Nawat Fes accepts applications once a year.

• The last deadline closed on January 7, 2025. Residencies from October 2025-July 2026 will be selected from those who applied at this deadline. Notification will be in late April 2025.
• The next application deadline will be in January 2026, for residencies between October 2026 and July 2027. The application form will go live in November 2025. Add your name to our mailing list to be informed when that application period opens.
• Residencies through July 2025 have already been awarded.

Artistic Media Supported

Nawat Fes offers residencies to U.S. and international creators in multiple disciplines, including:

• Visual and Performance Art
• Music Composition and Performance
• Literature: (Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Playwriting/Screenwriting originally written in English or Arabic. Literary Translation from any language into English or Arabic)

Nawat Fes is not able to host dance.

Eligibility

• The program accepts artist collaboratives of up to three people.
• Because a major aim of the program is to bring new international voices to the Fes community, preference will be given to applications from artists who are not already residing in Morocco.
• Nawat Fes will accept residency applications only from artists holding passports eligible for visa-free entry with a minimum stay of 60 days (in other words, those listed as “exempted from entry visa into Morocco”—artists who have to submit an application for a visa are not eligible.) Check the website of the Moroccan embassy or consulate in your country. This unfortunate rule is based on past experience of Nawat Fes artists.
• It is not possible for artist residents to be accompanied by spouses or partners unless the spouse/partner applies and has been individually accepted to the program, even if a partner secures their own lodging in Fes. If spouse/family plans to visit, we request that the artist arrange this to occur after their residency.
• Our initial facilities have some limitations for visual artists and artists working in sound (see “limitations” below).

Limitations

Each artist has a simple, private studio space in Dar Bennis that is separate from their living space. Our current facilities have some limitations for visual artists and artists working in sound. In the future, we will explore partnerships that will enable us to expand access to dedicated studio space for artists working in these media.

• Limitations of Visual Arts Studios. At present, simple visual arts studios are located in Dar Bennis. Studios do not have any special equipment. Because Dar Bennis is a shared live-work space, artists may not use materials in the studios that will create fumes.
• Limitations of studios for sound-based artists. Because of the shared nature of the live-work space, at the time of our launch we do not have facilities in which sound-based artists can play their work at full volume. Currently, musicians, composers and sound artists are welcome to apply who are able to work within the space productively using their own headphones and equipment in a way that will not disturb the other artist resident in Dar Bennis.

APPLICATION FEE

There is an application fee of 250 Moroccan Dirhams (approximately 25 USD at the current exchange rate, plus a 3% card fee).

Please read the website and the application instructions thoroughly before emailing with additional questions.