Art Omi: Music 2026
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Note: This is the application for Art Omi: Music ONLY
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (11:59 PM EST)
Late applications will not be accepted.
DECISION NOTIFICATION: December 2025
RESIDENCY DATES: Thursday, August 13–Monday, August 31, 2026
We look forward to becoming acquainted with your work. There is no fee to apply to Art Omi: Music and no fee to attend (however, note that we do not provide travel to or from Art Omi: Music). Also note that because of the large number of applications we receive, we are unable to offer feedback on your application. It may be useful to know that many Music fellows have applied multiple times before being offered a residency.
Using this online application, you will be asked to upload a single audio or video work sample of no longer than 4 minutes total. Your work sample may include up to three excerpts (including more than a single excerpt is highly recommended). Please only include work created in the last five years. You will be asked to indicate the year created and your role in each work—whether you are composer, performer, or both—what instruments/performers are featured, and whether the work is improvised, composed, a combination, or digitally produced). Do not indicate cue points on longer excerpts or direct the panel to other samples online. If you supply a longer work sample longer than 4 minutes, or include a work sample containing more than three excerpts, your application will not be considered.
You will also be asked to provide a very brief bio (100 words or fewer) and a short narrative explaining why you would like to attend Art Omi: Music at this point in your career.
Additional fields will allow you to provide information about your country of origin (and country where you live if different), any instruments you might perform with while in residence, and your primary role as a music-maker.
A Note to Ensembles: The Art Omi: Music program will only consider applications from individual applicants. Joint applications will not be considered. Individuals members of performing ensembles may apply simultaneously, but will be evaluated as individual musicians. It is highly unlikely that members of ensembles will be invited to attend during the same residency. A goal of the Art Omi: Music program is to encourage and foster participation in new collaborative environments—ongoing collaborators are discouraged from applying for the same residency.
A Note to Art Omi: Music Alumni Wishing to Re-Apply: As we can only have so few residents in a session, it is not possible at this time to accept applications from those who have already attended Art Omi: Music.
Note: To prepare an audio work sample, you may wish to use the free Audacity sound editing software. You can download it here.
For Technical Support, email: support@submittable.com
For Program Application Questions, email Jeffrey Lependorf, Director: musicians@artomi.org