Founded:
2016
Language(s):
English, Portuguese, Portugal, Spanish
Duration:
1 week, 1-4 weeks, 1-3 months, 3-6 months, More than 6 months
Minimum 1 week

Support of the residency program includes overhead expenses, remunerated activities, public programming expenses, and transportation to study visits.

To enroll in the residency, they are asking for a 300€ fee for a week, 500€ fee for two weeks, 750€ fee for three weeks and 1000€ fee for the full month (4 weeks).

*Duos receive a 25% discount to each artist if sharing the same accommodation;

** Artists may receive visitors at a cost of 15€ per night (if sharing the same accommodation as the artist they are visiting). Babies up to 3 years old are welcome to stay free of charge.

Please notice that travelling to Quinta das Relvas/ Portugal, food and your art supplies are not included.

In case you apply to other funding opportunities, keep in mind they are happy to provide proper invitation letters to support funding applications (for instance, Culture Moves Europe).

Application guidelines:

Online application

Please notice that although it is required to submit a Portfolio and CV – so the organisers can understand your profile, language and background – they give priority to those who demostrate a strong will to enroll the residence through their motivation letter.

Application deadline:
Ongoing / apply any time
Ongoing
Open call:
yes
AIR tags:
Environment, Collaboration, Production residency, Research
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Quinta das Relvas

Quinta das Relvas

Description

An artist-in-residence program, with access to workshops and study visits focused on the intersection between art and sustainability, and supported by a team of caring and experienced professionals.

For the residencies they conceived a flexible program for each week that comprises activities and workshops such as:
– introduction sessions to: Permaculture, Syntropic agroforest and other regenerative practices;
– workshops and experience sharing on means for a more sustainable art practice, etc.;
– study visits (Serralves Museum, Oliva Contemporary Art Center, Viarco – Pencil Factory, Águeda Arts Center; among others);
– mentoring, support and advice;
– an Open Studio moment for the local community (Please notice that the Open Studio moment will only happen once, at the end of the month);
– Movie nights.

Consider that all activities are suggestive and noncompulsory and rearrangements or adjustments can be made according to the needs and circumstances of the moment. You will always have a mentor or staff nearby for your questions.

Outcome

Open Day and/or collective exhibition (to be confirmed)

Accommodation Information

All resident participants will be based in the headquarters of the NGO, a XVIII century farm, with an amazing natural heritage. Residents will be staying in eco-tiny houses. Studios and shared spaces are on a short walking distance. Some of the amenities are:

  • Shared fully equipped kitchen;
  • Shared bathroom;
  • Common living room;
  • Access to Wi-Fi internet wide band in working areas;
  • 10 minutes walking from local commerce;
  • 10 min drive from big supermarket and nearest town;
  • Car will be available once for week for groceries and bikes for daily use;
  • Pick-up from and to local transports.

You can read all the information about the working spaces and accommodation on their website.

Studio Information

As an art resident you will have access to the following:

  • Visual art studio-atelier of 80m2 with natural light, equipped with washing station, heating and private toilet;
  • Personal table and light;
  • White walls with 4 mt height that allow hanging paper or canvas;
  • Painting easels;
  • Multimedia tools (tv screens, projector, DSLR camera and studio lights) – if available;
  • Access to Analog photography studio;
  • Performative art atelier 80m2 (if needed and available);
  • All the outside garden areas;
  • Access to a big range of natural materials (wood, clay, hay, etc) and plants (sustainable harvesting will be properly briefed; consider that each season will give access to different plants);
  • All available tools and art materials on demand and with proper safety and working briefing (carpentry, drawing, available natural pigments);
  • Educational material (pdf, available books, staffs’ brains, etc.).

In order to ensure your belongings and art pieces safety all working rooms are opened with a secure code key.

Location

 The organisation is a non-profit based in an 18th-century eco-farm in the village of Branca (Albergaria-a-Velha Council), Portugal. The farm has a rich natural and historic heritage where several fauna and flora live peacefully together.

The farm, with a lot of natural fauna and flora, holds different spaces with different characteristics. There's is a lot of open space with hundreds of different flora species (trees, flowers, bushes etc.), a veggie garden, a greenhouse, and an animal shelter for the resident animals (rabbits, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks etc..) a wooden structure full of natural light placed in the middle of the woods, that will serve as a studio (residents are welcome to work in other spaces of the farm, including outside), an equipped workshop with lots of tools residents can use (under request), a pool, shared accommodation (either in dormitory apartment or in a glamping tent - depending on the season), smoking area (is not permitted to smoke in other areas of the farm to prevent polluting and fires), shared kitchen, dry toilets and showers, and normal toilets and showers, etc.

Contact information
Email
artes [at] quintadasrelvas.pt
Website
https://quintadasrelvas.pt/artists-in-residence