The ACR Collective is pleased to welcome our 2025 residency program participants:
Elder Angie Joseph-Rear Chantal Rousseau
Janet Patterson Joe Bishop Lianne Charlie
Chelsea Jeffery and Zach McCann-Armitage.
About the Retreat
The Arctic Circle Retreat is a self-directed residency for artists and makers who live and create in the Yukon. We strive to support and promote the diverse voices, visions, and sensibilities of the North.
The retreat is hosted by an artist run collective based in Dawson City and is supported by the Eagle Plains Hotel. The hotel is situated on the Dempster Highway within the traditional and contemporary territory of the Vuntut Gwitchen.
The Arctic Circle Retreat offers six, one-week-long residencies to Yukon-based creators at the unique truck stop, restaurant, and hotel complex, 35km from the Arctic Circle.
A Yukon artist, or collaborative team, is invited to spend one week at the hotel during two set date ranges: between April 01 - May 15, 2025 or between September 01 - December 01st, 2025.
With the generous support of the Eagle Plains Hotel and the Yukon Arts Fund, the Arctic Circle Retreat is pleased to offer each of the six successful applicants: one-week (7 days) hotel room accommodation; $1000 honorarium; $60 per diem; and, $200 towards transportation.
Submissions for 2025 are now closed. Submissions re-open in early 2026.
Learn more here.
Questions? Please contact us
About Eagle Plains Hotel
At Kilometer 371 on the Dempster Highway, the Eagle Plains Hotel sits on a broad and rolling plateau in Vuntut Gwitchin territory, halfway between Dawson City, YT, and Inuvik, NWT. This remote environment is both expansive and insular, providing a unique combination of isolation and openness.
The Eagle Plains Hotel, built in 1978, is a completely self-contained complex with an electrical generator and water hauled by tanker truck from the Eagle River. It includes a gas station, auto repair shop, government office and staff quarters. The industrial-style modular hotel has internet access, a dining room, and a lounge with a pool table, shuffleboard and TV’s. The hotel is open year-round.
This vast region of rolling hills is covered with stunted black spruce and nestled between the Ogilvie and Richardson mountain ranges. Much of the ground has permafrost close to the surface and grows mosses, lichens, and short shrubs. The Eagle River, from which the area gets its name, wanders through the plains, fed by smaller creeks. The hotel is with in easy driving reach to the Arctic Circle milepost and has many natural and cultural phenomena nearby for those who like to hike and explore.
