Founded:
2019
Language(s):
English, Italian
Duration:
1-4 weeks, 1-3 months
2 to 4 weeks
Paid by host:

Two one month-long subsidized residencies are awarded each year. The residency award covers all fees.
Applicants interested in a residency award must apply by January 2 annually.

Paid by artist:
Residency fee
Paid by artist:
  • 1 artist stay 1000€/2 weeks; 1600€/1 month
  • Collaborative team of two stay 1400€/2 weeks; 2300€/ 1month
  • Collaborative team of three stay 1800€/2 weeks; 3000€/1month
  • Refundable security deposit 150€

Fees include:

  • Accommodations
  • Bi-weekly grocery shopping trips. The organisers provide the ride, if necessary, for grocery/supply shopping and laundry in nearby Castel del Piano. Residents buy their own groceries and other personal items/supplies.
  • Cleaning at close of residency
  • Info list and connections to local resources and support for research and/or supplies.
  • Optional side trips, activities, and services are available upon request. Fees for these are the responsibility of the residents and may include:
  • Excursions to Monte Amiata, Daniel Spoerri Garden, Merigar, Monte Labbro.
  • Activities such as cooking classes, olive oil and wine tasting with frantoio tour and cellar at Poderi Borselli, Ebike tours, Italian lessons or conversations.
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Cultivate

Cultivate

La Baldi Residency
Description

Cultivate is an evolving collection of interdisciplinary artists, writers, and researchers driven by investigations of landscape, place, and the commons. Projects include experimental and practical art explorations that wrestle with the qualities, perceptions, and layers of experience that inform and expand notions of landscape. Ideas from a full spectrum of voices across generations are supported using sustainable tactics. From the hyper-local to the global, Cultivate reflects individual and collective curiosity, intention, imagining, and engagement with the phenomena of landscape.

La Baldi Residency for welcomes individual and collaborative teams of artists, writers, and researchers. The multi-disciplinary residency is located in the historic village of Montegiovi, Italy, in southern Tuscany. The self-directed international residency is an opportunity to experiment, develop ideas and projects, dream, explore, rejuvenate, research, and investigate the land and culture of this special area. There are no dedicated traditional indoor studio facilities. They ask that applicants consider how they plan to embrace the outdoors as the primary workspace.

The residency honors the inspiring, generous legacy of Maura Baldi— a dynamic educator of literature, a fierce protector of the curiosity and expression of youth, and a spirited advocate for art, sustainable land practices and the life and history of the area. “La Baldi” (The Baldi), as her beloved students called her, was and is even now a unique force in their lives. She trusted and believed in the power of their potential to be extraordinary human beings and engaged world citizens.

Outcome

Residents are free to pursue their own work, creative rejuvenation, and experimentation.

Opportunities to share work, work-in-progress, or research are available, but not required. Usually these will occur during the final week of the residency. Spontaneous meetings for coffee, meals, aperitivo, or treks are valuable community interactions and opportunities for exchange.

Residents are encouraged to submit images, audio, video, written responses/essays, or residency projects for inclusion in the journal on the Cultivate website.

Accommodation Information

Residents live in private accommodations in Montegiovi, Italy, a village of 200 people. Via Alberghi apartment for one artist and companion. Two rooms with views to the east and west, kitchen, bath with shower, queen bed and outside sitting area/terrace. WiFi is available.

Small terratetto house (Piazza Matteotti little house) for one artist and companion. Three small rooms, stacked on top of each other on three different floors including kitchen, study, queen bed, bath with shower, balcony, and a large garden with panoramic views. No WiFi, but participants can use WiFi at L’Olivastra at Poderi Borselli or other sites if desired or necessary.

Via del Ponte apartment for one artist and companion or collaborative teams of up to three artists. Three private bedrooms (one single and two doubles) with shared kitchen, bath with shower, half bath, dining area, balcony, and study. Garden/terrace with views to the east. WiFi available.

Studio Information

There are no dedicated traditional indoor studio facilities. We ask that applicants consider how they plan to embrace the outdoors as the primary workspace Workspace is outside in the open air of the gardens, on the porch at Olivastra, in the garden of Il Miccio pizzeria pub (on the street leading to the top of the village), on walks, on the village overlook, in the piazzas of neighbouring towns, or inside the apartments or house (small works, writing). Even when working inside, the orientation is to the outside through windows and doors that move the gaze to the land, weather, light and stars.

Indoor working space at Olivastra is reserved for residents as needed.

If working indoors, all activities must adhere to a strict “leave no trace,” “leave no harm” green policy.

Other working facility
Exhibition Space, Outdoor Areas
Technical Information
  • An HD projector is available in the little house for image or video projection.
  • WiFi and internet are available in the apartment and at Poderi Borselli/L’Olivastra.
  • The little house is internet and WiFi free offering an opportunity to temporarily disconnect and work without distraction.
  • An art supply and stationery store is located in nearby Castel del Piano.
  • A print and graphic shop is available in Castel del Piano.
  • Laundromats (lavanderie) are located in nearby Castel del Piano or Arcidosso.
  • Upon request and availability, community contacts that align with artist intentions can be made to enrich the residency.
Location

Shifting virtual and analogue locations in watersheds around the globe with physical bases in the Washington, D. C. metro area, Montana, and Italy.

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Contact information

32 Via del Ponte
58033 Montegiovi GR
Italy

Email
cultivate [at] cultivateprojects.net
Website
https://www.cultivateprojects.net/labaldi