THE PEYTON EVANS
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Selected from hundreds of applicants around the country and the world each year, our artists in residence are each given a
month-long stay in one of our beautiful artist guest house apartments – – and a bicycle too. They write novels, plays and music,
make paintings, sculpture and performance art. They serve as our best ambassadors for Key West’s creative spirit.
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photo: Johnny White
Hundreds of writers and artists have since come to Key West through the
Artist Residency Program, many returning and several relocating permanently.
Each has benefited from the island’s unique character, and left something of
themselves behind.
The Peyton Evans Artists in Residence Program celebrates the spirit of exploration
with which it was founded, the artists it was established to serve, and the vision,
wisdom and generosity of the woman for whom it’s named.
OCT-NOV
The Studios of Key West was founded in 2006 with the initial inspiration of simply providing space for artists
to live and work, thereby drawing creative people to our island and enriching the lives of all who reside here.
In those earliest days, our founder Peyton Evans gathered fourteen of Key West’s most successful artists and
writers and arranged for them to participate in artist residency programs throughout the country, then return
to help us craft our own program combining the best of what they’d seen and learned.