What is an artist residency? A place where one can both live and practice one’s art... often with an income that frees one of material concerns. Beyond this basic definition, it is also, for the Académie, a meeting place where the artist can rub shoulders with others, get to know different disciplines, explore various creative worlds. Finally, it is a place where they can be supported in their work and present it, not only to their peers but also to professionals; a place from which to build a network. To take off. More than ever in these troubled times, the Académie des Beaux-Arts is committed to its mission of supporting creation,
through the residencies it offers to artists. Workshops for most, if not all, disciplines. Places to live, experiment and meet, whether in the countryside, such as those at the Villa Les Pinsons in Chars, or in the heart of Paris, such as those to be renovated at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Montmartre, in heritage residences such as those to be created at the Marmottan Library in Boulogne-Billancourt, or within the Palais de l’Institut de France itself. Places to live and create, quite simply, while both being on a retreat and staying in touch with today’s world.
Read the issue: lettre-academie-créer-encore-version-anglaise.pdf
