Montello Foundation is a foundation dedicated to support artists who foster
our understanding of nature, its fragility and our need to protect it.

We acknowledge that the retreat is on the traditional territory
and homelands of the Te-Moak Western Shoshone people.

“Due to the generous windows, both at the front and at the back, this interior is inseparably connected to the outside space, the boundaries between inside and outside dissolve and become one.”  
- Kathrin Horsch, resident 2024

The application deadline for the summer 2025
residency season is January 19th, 2025

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The idea behind the retreat is that you are in this amazing desert landscape by yourself.
It's all yours, and you are part of all what is around you.
There is no direct interaction with other humans, no staff or other artists, you don't have to be social or not, decide whether you go to your room or chat all night. You focus on being social using your art you work on while you are there, or do sketches to work on it afterwards, or you can just relax from working and spend two week in the hammock. (We are sure you will have at least one great thought and will act upon it afterwards.)
Your social responsibility is with the audience of your work, not the immediate humans around you. What's important is to get the message out: Nature is a fragile thing and we have to take care of it.
So, no meals are provided, but you will have a fine little kitchen with a fridge.