Les Ateliers des Arques Drawing Research Residency 2027 — Four Weeks in a Lot Village, €1,500 Grant, for Artists from Occitanie
Les Ateliers des Arques
Founded in 1988 by residents of the village of Les Arques (Lot, 210 inhabitants) to bring contemporary art and rural life together, Les Ateliers des Arques have hosted nearly 250 artists in their studio-houses. Besides the spring residency led by a guest curator, since 2024 they run a second, research-only residency on drawing, understood as a practice exhibited and thought in dialogue with the...
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Two artists get four uninterrupted weeks of research and experimentation devoted to drawing, 2–30 September 2027, with no obligation to produce or exhibit. Each receives a €1,500 residency grant, a €200 fee for the public talk at the end, €300 for research costs (supplies and documentation) and a €200 flat travel allowance, plus an independent studio, drawing furniture and equipment (drawing tables, lamps, light tables), a furnished house, shared living spaces with the presbytery garden, a shared car and an electric bike. The association commissions a text from a curator or critic chosen by the artist and arranges meetings with contemporary-art professionals during the stay.
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Professional visual artists in contemporary art, of any age, who draw regularly and meet all four conditions: born in and/or resident in the Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée region; registered with URSSAF as artist-author (or equivalent if living abroad); a degree from a fine-arts school or university art faculty; and a driving licence (a car is provided on site). Illustration, graphic design, publishing and comics are outside the call.
Dates & details
- Deadline
- midnight (one PDF by e-mail)
- Programme dates
- 2–30 September 2027
- Results
- By 1 March 2027
- Costs to the artist
- Travel beyond the €200 flat allowance