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- ↑ Are You an Emerging Artist Looking to Raise Your Game? Here Are 7 Residencies That Can Help, Artnet Brian Boucher & Caroline Goldstein, July 27, 2017
- ↑ "Residency Unlimited - New York". artrabbit.com. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
- ↑ Conceptualising the value of artist residencies: A research agenda, K Lehman - Cultural Management: Science and Education, 2017
