Month: May 2023

The French Academy in Rome welcomes artists to take part in  authors and researchers to take in an art residency program. Selected participants will have the chance to work on their projects in The French academy facilities for a period not exceeding 6 months.

The academy offers multiple residencies programs during the year, please check deadlines and application period.

The Académie de France à Rome is a French artistic institution located in the Villa Medici on the Pincio hill in Rome and intended to welcome young artists in residence for a given period, within or outside the walls, in order to develop their creative projects.

Eligibility

French speaking artist

Working on one of the following field

VISUAL ARTS

Plastic arts

Graphic design

Photography/film

Graphic novel/comic strip

WRITING

 

Exhibition curating

Screenwriting

Literature

SPACE

Architecture

Design/Artcraft

Fashion

Stage direction/choreography

Scenography

HISTORY AND THEORY OF ART AND RESTORATION

Art history

Art theory

Restoration of works of art or monuments

MUSIC

Musical composition

Musicology

The Swiss government offers a number of art scholarships for artists to enroll in a study program in one of the Swiss Conservatory or university of the arts.

The scholarship is fully funded and cover all the cost of study with a monthly salary.

The scholarship program is valid for full-time studies in Switzerland only, high qualified artists can apply without scholarship.

Duration of the scholarship

12 months

Scholarship amount

Monthly allowance of CHF 1’920.

Selection criteria

-The candidate: artistic profile, qualification and motivation

-The submitted portfolio: artistic maturity and potential

-The host institute: available study places.

Submit your scholarship application at the Swiss Embassy or the competent national institution before the deadline.

Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) offers a number of scholarships for international artists to take part in one of its programmes.

Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) is a public university in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom that specialises in art, design and media.

List of available programs in Norwich University of the Arts (NUA)

Undergraduate

• BA (Hons) Acting
• BA (Hons) Animation
• BA (Hons) Animation and Visual Effects
• BA (Hons) Architecture
• BSc (Hons) Creative Computing
• BSc (Hons) Creative Technology
• BA (Hons) Design for Publishing
• BA (Hons) Fashion
• BA (Hons) Fashion Communication and Promotion
• BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing and Business
• BA (Hons) Film and Moving Image Production

• BA (Hons) Fine Art
• BA (Hons) Games Art and Design
• BSc (Hons) Games Development
• BA (Hons) Graphic Communication
• BA (Hons) Graphic Design
• BA (Hons) Illustration
• BA (Hons) Interior Design
• BA (Hons) Photography
• BA (Hons) Textile Design
• BSc (Hons) User Experience Design

Postgraduate

• MA Fine Art
• MArch Architecture
• MA Communication Design

• MA Games
• MA Film
• MA Textile Design

Short courses

• Basics of Creative Coding (Level 4)
• Creative Coding (Level 6)
• Introduction to UX Design (Level 6)

Entry Requirements

Applicants from around the world are accepted

International Baccalaureate Diploma or Foundation Diploma in Art & Design certification.

English certificate.

Scholarship amount

Vice Chancellor’s Global UG Award £15,000

Annual fees

£18,000

Application link

It is not that easy to start a full time career as an artist especially in the beginning where you will struggle to sell you artwork even if they look like the artworks of Leonardo da Vinci or Van Gogh.

Van Gogh has the most expensive artworks, but he died poor, this is said is not evident you will get recognition of your art, or people will come searching for you. Instead, you need to work the other way around, disseminate your work and promote it everywhere, so people can see it and praise it.

Now first question how I will be able to go around the globe, disseminate my work and reach large public or art lover and I don’t have enough money for that. I totally agree with you. You need a different approach.

First of all, let’s see what are the ways to turns a nobody artist to a famous one. That for sure requires a lot of effort and hard work, but also resources.

Step 1 Artwork collection:

Choose a medium or a field and focus on it. It could be oil, acrylics, Watercolors, Charcoal, Pastels, Chalk, 3D art and the list is too long. Try to be specific and decide which area you see you can excel in it faster.

Create a collection of artwork 5 to 10 artworks, this is essential to build a portfolio. It is better to do the next steps that I will discuss in this article for a collection rather than a single artwork.

Step 2 Create an online presence

Publish your artwork for free in different platforms whether social media or art platform. I would say that Instagram is a good place to post your artwork and get some followers, use always tag to reach the proper audience.

Post some short videos on TikTok, Instagram reels, YouTube shorts when you are working in the studio on your artworks. This will help you build a community and supporters for your work.

Publish you bio and artwork in art platform, there are some which are free and other which are paid. It will not cost you much but it will help you to get online visibility and index fast your artwork making it easy to reach potential buyers.

Create a minimalist website where you can publish you CV and artworks it could be for free on blogger or wordpress.

You can chose among the available free template, a template for a gallery so visitor can browse for your artwork and find information like price etc.

Step 3 Take part in online contest

Start with the free ones, submit your artwork. Whenever you win in art contest, share the news with your audience, promote your featured artwork and talk about it in a local newspaper this will create value and allow you  to gain recognition for your work.

Make sure to take part in multiple art contest, to increase your chances to win and off course later on add these new achievements to you CV and portfolio. I will tell you in the next step why this is useful.

Step 4 Take part in exhibitions

Congratulation now you have all the requirements to take part in exhibition and you have a good artist portfolio too. Start first with exhibitions in your city, then in other cities of your country.

Then try to find exhibitions abroad, Now you will ask me, I don’t have enough money to do so, well the good news that you can take part in some exhibition for free and it can be fully funded art exhibition, you can search them online.

Now after taking part in exhibition, your community will grow even faster and your artwork will get high exposure. Don’t forget to share the best moments of your exhibition online as I already explained in step 2.

Step 5 apply for art fund

You can find calls for art fund online, take part in them wait for answer, now your chances to win some grants are higher then when you was in previous steps. You are an emerging artist with a strong portfolio and you have enough recognition for your work.

I hope that this article was helpful for artists, to level up their artist career and to gain recognition for their work. If you need help or a consultancy you can write us on arthouseonlinegallery1@gmail.com ,we help artists to promote their work.

Nocefresca is an art residency that brings together artists, designers, writers and creative nomads from around the world. The program helps artists to focus on their projects while experiencing the inspiring environment of Sardinia island, Italy, rich in nature, history and culture.

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus), with an area of 24,100 km2. it is renowned for beautiful beaches, turquoise sea and fascinating rock formations.

Special art residency:

Have a detox period.

It offer a private studio place,

Connect with other artists,

Be creative,

A special location in Sardinia Island,

Fresh food and air in a rural area.

“the perfect place, for the perfect inspiration”

Eligibility:

The program is designed to

Visual artists

Designers

Writers

Photographers

Composers

Mixed-Media artists

Fashion designers

Videomakers

Architects

Illustrators

Social media artists

Community artists

How it works:

Taking part in the art residency will help you achieve your projects thanks to the location, facilities and the opportunity to exchange with other artists.

*Applications are open during the year for short stays.

Application link

The Palazzo is an incubator for creativity and productivity, offering artists a chance to find inspiration, forge new relationships and create collaborations. The Palazzo offers an art residency program for international artists(A.I.R program).

Art residency Location

The Palazzo has a residency program, an exhibition space and a private collection, founded in 2017 and located in Brescia, Italy.

Brescia is a rich industrial city in Lombardy between Lake Garda, Lake Iseo and the Valtrompia in the foothills of the Alps, about 100 km east of Milan.

The Palazzo(the castle):

Built in 13^th century in Brescia and turned in a Dynamic place to how artists from around the globe,

More than 200 artists from around the world took part in the art residency program.

Artworks:

Paintings and prints, installations and objects

Used mediums:

Ceramic, iron, bronze, marble or wood.

Art exhibition access:

Please send an email for reservations

ciao@palazzomonti.org

*Applications are open

Application link 

The Palazzo is an incubator for creativity and productivity, offering artists a chance to find inspiration, forge new relationships and create collaborations. The Palazzo offers an art residency program for international artists(A.I.R program).

Art residency Location

The Palazzo has a residency program, an exhibition space and a private collection, founded in 2017 and located in Brescia, Italy.

Brescia is a rich industrial city in Lombardy between Lake Garda, Lake Iseo and the Valtrompia in the foothills of the Alps, about 100 km east of Milan.

The Palazzo(the castle):

Built in 13^th century in Brescia and turned in a Dynamic place to how artists from around the globe,

 More than 200 artists from around the world took part in the art residency program.

Artworks:

Paintings and prints, installations and objects

Used mediums:

Ceramic, iron, bronze, marble or wood.

Art exhibition access:

Please send an email for reservations

ciao@palazzomonti.org

*Applications are open

Application link

Call for Exhibition – Accepted media: Photography, Video, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. October 2023

FREE ENTRY Photographers, Visual Designers and Video Artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme.

The Forgotten Places call will collect photographic, video and visual design works that will constitute an exhibition/exploration excursus of abandoned, forgotten and rediscovered places, which will lead to a reflection on environmental, historical/social aspects and individual memory.
With the advent of photography, a new documentary approach intervenes in giving a testimony of human kind, through the direct recording of behaviors, but also through the traces they leave.
One of the most representative approaches in the photographic and video world is that of the phenomenon of Urbex – Urban Exploration – an activity of exploration of abandoned places, its objective being that of documenting the history of those who have lived there, through traces and objects which seem to be fixed and frozen in time.
A further focus of the exhibition is to shed light on the evocative charm of places where nature makes itself manifest by redeeming its spaces, asking questions and offering opportunities for reflections on our relationship with the environment, starting from the need for a more organic relationship with it.
Forgotten Places are also those personal places that pertain to each of our biographies, places that require a return to observe the images of our memories with new eyes, or to rekindle memories of an experience in order to better understand who we are.

Deadline June 22nd 2023 │SUBMIT HERE

INTO THE NIGHT

Call for Exhibition – Accepted media: Photography

Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. February 2024

FREE ENTRY Photographers, Visual Designers and Video Artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme.

The collection of works displayed will exhibit ambiences and experiences lived during nighttime. We are immersed into the night where the deepest self manifests itself in a relationship with darkness and silence. Empty contexts where time leaves space for contemplation of places where the diurnal rhythm is marked by the productive and consumerist frenzy of human beings. The night is also told by those who offer evidence of social contexts – places, people and events – linked to nightlife and the fascination it evokes.

Deadline November 23rd, 2023 │SUBMIT HERE

NOSTALGIA

Call for Exhibition – Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design, Video

Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. January 2024

FREE ENTRY Photographers, Visual Designers and Video Artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme.

Nostalgia is a feeling that mixes up pleasure and sadness in a perfect balance. Sometimes we feel nostalgic when we experience or see something vaguely familiar, some others when we re-live a collection of memories coming from the past. Studies say that we can become nostalgic even for places we have never visited before. This call wants to collect all the photographic, digital and video works revolving around the concept of nostalgia. Close your eyes and think about… what makes you feel nostalgic?

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Deadline October 20th, 2023 │SUBMIT HERE