PEG Arts' Pegasus Project offers juried, no-fee residencies of one to three weeks year-round to visual artists, musicians, dancers, composers, landscape artists, poets, playwrights, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic Old Town district of Florence Arizona.
We are located midway between Phoenix and Tucson.
Application required.
The Pegasus Project Casita is a 500 square foot,
one-bedroom cottage on the grounds of
the PEG Arts Center.
The Casita is fully equipped,
self-contained,
and right downtown.
We also offer artist-priced DIY residencies. Please contact us for details.
Ploi Pirapokin is a Thai speculative fiction writer and lyric essayist raised in Hong Kong. She serves on the board for Khōréō magazine, Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction Magazine, WP Now, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, and The Art and Craft of Stories from Asia: A Writer's Guide and Anthology from Bloomsbury Academic. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Creative Capacity Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi, Kundiman and others. A graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop and the MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, she currently teaches at the Writers Program at UCLA Extension, WritingWorkshops.com, Story Studio Chicago, and the University of Hong Kong. Discover more about Ploi and read some of her work at https://www.ppirapokin.com/
Artist in Residence
March 28 - April 11 2024
Octavio Solis is an American author, playwright, and director whose plays have been produced at theaters and small companies across the United States. He has written over 25 plays, including his most famous works: Lydia, Santos & Santos and Man of the Flesh, and a memoir in essays called Retablos (City Lights Books). His works have earned numerous awards and grants. You can purchase his book at https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Octavio-Solis/dp/0872867862
January 2024 Artist in Residence
Roberto Salas, Public Art, Sculpture, and Murals
November 2023 Artist in Residence