Networks
Networks of residential art centers and related organisations play an important role in distributing reliable information about artist-in-residence opportunities. Trans Artists guides you to the main residency networks, and to other interesting, related networks that foster international exchange of artists.
Africa
Afrique en Créations
Afrique en créations helps artists living and working in Africa in the performing and visual arts to gain access
to major international artistic movements, by awarding grants to support creativity, distribution and training. www.afaa.asso.frPan African Circle of Artists
The Pan-African Circle of Artists is a forum for the promotion of art and culture on the African continent.
www.panafricanartists.orgDigi Arts Africa
The DigiArts Africa network is a tool to find people working in Digital Arts in Africa and to provide a collaborative working space to promote digital arts in Africa.
websiteAsia
Arts Network Asia
The network aims to promote artistic exchanges that are primarily process-oriented, with a focus on Southeast Asia including its relationship with East and South Asia.
www.artsnetworkasia.orgArt Autonomy Network
The Art Autonomy Network [AAN] was founded in Japan in 2005 to support alternative art organizations and individuals in presenting small-scale but significant art activities in various art fields. AAN seeks to support activities that are often not represented in major institutions such as museums and commercial galleries.
www.a-a-n.orgCulture360
Culture360 is a multidisciplinary arts and cultural online portal with a focus on Asia and Europe. Created for and fuelled by artists, cultural practitioners and policy makers, Culture360 is your platform to inform, collaborate, interact and exchange ideas with the arts and cultural communities across Asia and Europe.
www.culture360.orgAustralia
Caos
The Caos Site is a gateway to national contemporary art spaces in Australia.
www.caos.org.auEurope
Apollonia
Apollonia is a platform for European Artistic Exchanges, based of a network for partners active throughout Europe.
www.apollonia-art-exchanges.comArt Factories
Artfactories is an international platform of resources dedicated to art and cultural centres, which are born from citizen artistic initiatives and based on involvement with communities.
www.artfactories.netCulture Action Europe
Culture Action Europe (European Forum for the Arts and Heritage) is an European level advocacy organisation representing the interests of thousands of artists and cultural organisations. www.cultureactioneurope.orgIETM
IETM consists of over 400 subscribing professional performing arts organisations from more than 41 different countries. They are engaged in innovative, contemporary performance work and are committed to cross-border artistic exchange and collaboration. www.ietm.orgENICPA
The European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts (ENICPA) aims to function as a meeting place for information and documentation organisations. The main goal of the network is to distribute and to make available a broad range of information about the professional performing arts to arts professionals world wide. On our web site you can find information about European festivals, venues, publications, training opportunities and information centres. www.enicpa.orgTrans Europes Halles
A European network of independent cultural centres at former productive or commercial spaces.
www.teh.netOn The Move
On The Move is a very useful online information source about professional mobility in the areas of theatre, dance, music and other performing arts disciplines.Their website offers frequent and interesting calls for perfomance artists. www.on-the-move.orgSwiss A.I.R. Network
This Swiss Artists-in-Residence Network offers a clear website with all the offered residency oportunties within Switzerland.
www.artists-in-residence.chPépinières
Labforculture.org
A new, fully interactive website for all those involved in arts and culture who create, collaborate, share and produce across borders in Europe. LabforCulture.org is a vast source of online information, debate and research on European cultural cooperation. www.labforculture.orgNorth America
Alliance of Artists Communities
The Alliance Network currently gathers 100 leading, nonprofit artists' communities and residency members throughout the United States.
www.artistcommunities.orgThe Pacific Association Of Artist Run Centres (PAARC)
The PAARC is one of several service organizations across Canada that function for the benefit of individual working artists, and that establish, unite and promote Artist Run Centres.
www.paarc.caLINC
LINC stands for 'Leveraging Investments in Creativity'. For more than ten years now they strive for enhancing the artists'ability to contribute to the life of U.S. communities, to gather and disburse better information about current conditions, to identify areas of strategic need and to make innovations that truly make a difference. www.lincnet.netTrans Cultural Exchange Institute
TransCultural Exchange is dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and educational programs, at our home base in Boston and throughout the world. WebsiteWorld Wide
Culture Link
Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development
www.culturelink.orgRain
RAIN is a network of (visual) artists' initiatives from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, set up by artists who are former participants of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
www.r-a-i-n.netRes Artis
Res Artis is the worldwide network of artist-residencies and residential art centers.
www.resartis.orgUnesco
International Fund for the Promotion of Culture offers bursaries for artists to participate in residencies
www.unesco.org/culture.ipfcInternational Theatre Institute
ITI aims "to promote international exchange of knowledge and practice in theatre arts (drama, dance,music theatre) in order to consolidate peace and solidarity between peoples, to deepen mutual understanding and increase creative co-operation between all people in the theatre arts" www.iti-worldwide.org