Residency Opportunities
Summer 2026 Residency Apprenticeship Application Now Open Please read this page in its entirety before applying ​
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The Residency Apprenticeship is structured as a shared investment in time, space, and practice. Housing is offered at a reduced rate of $600/month (below the standard $900 market rent for the space) in exchange for approximately 15 hours per week of studio support. This includes general tasks such as reclaim, cleaning, kiln loading, assisting in the creation of larger works that require an extra set of hands, and rolling out slabs to support overall studio flow (Tasks can be shaped together). This is not a production role, but rather a support-based position within a working studio environment. In addition to housing, the resident receives access to the studio, kiln use, opportunities to sell their work, and ongoing dialogue and mentorship shaped by my background as a former university instructor and MFA graduate of New Mexico State University. The intention is to create a focused, immersive environment that supports both independent work and a deeper understanding of sustaining a studio practice.
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Available Residency Terms: 6 weeks, 12 weeks, or 3 months, with negotiable durations
Additional Work/Funding Opportunities Available on site.
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Studio Ethos / About Me
This is a family-oriented environment. My partner and I have an energetic 3 year old boy, the studio and surrounding space are shared with that reality in mind. We are looking for someone who is respectful, grounded, and comfortable being around family life.
At Terra Forma Studios, clay is approached as both a humble and extraordinary material. It is, at its core, earth—something we walk on, grow from, and return to. From soil to vessel to shelter, clay has evolved alongside human life, carrying both utility and meaning across time.
The studio is grounded in a respect for this lineage, and for the quiet discipline of working with a material that asks for patience, attention, and care, akin to a spiritual endeavor. Making here is not rushed. It is a steady engagement with process, rhythm, and place.
Opening this studio was a deliberate choice—to build a life and practice that are in alignment with family, land, and a slower, more intentional way of working. As a father, I am interested in creating an environment where making and living are not separate, and where clay becomes part of a shared, grounded daily rhythm.
The work emerging from this space reflects an interest in impermanence and landscape. Clay, in this way, becomes both record and participant in a larger conversation between human hands, the natural world, and our relationship to it.
This is a space for those who are drawn to that relationship—who value presence over speed, and depth over output.
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Lastly, Cigarette Smoking and casual/daily drinking or drug use is prohibited. We are intentional with what we put in our in our bodies and this contributes to the environment here, and we ask that residents align with that during their stay.
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