Dear Fabulous Artist, We’re just a few days away from the only free Klein Artist Works webinar on the calendar for 2018; Monday, February 26 @ 7:00 PM Chicago time! I need to tell you something. This is important: You...

Deadline: March 9, 2018 The workshop ’Architecture of Skagen – Before and Now’ is an international workshop with the aim of developing and executing an exhibition with one theme experienced through a variation of approaches. The town of Skagen is...

Residency program by Arteles for writers, artists and performers working with text Deadline: 21st of March 2018 Enter Text Residency program by Arteles for writers, artists & performers working with text at Arteles Creative Center in Hämeenkyrö, Finland 1 months...

Available through ArtistGrant.org Deadline: 15 April 2018 Application fee: $25 USD Artist Grant provides a one-time $500 USD grant to one visual artist each grant cycle. The deadline for the current grant cycle is April 15, 2018. There is an...

International Summerschool for Land and Environmental Art in the Swiss Alps Deadline: 28.2.2018 No application fee The second international Alps Art Academy will take place between June 28 and July 7, 2018 in the Safiental (Grisons, Switzerland). Located 1650 meters...

funded sonic arts residency at The Auxiliary Deadline: 28th February Application fee: None We are now accepting submissions for our artist-in-residence programme, AUX-AiR 2018. We are looking for four emerging and early career international artists working in the fields of...

No experience required, only great ideas. Deadline: March 1, 2018, 11:59PM EST Application fee: FREE From February 1 - March 1, 2018 apexart is accepting proposals for its International Open Call for exhibitions. Three winning proposals will be presented as...

Call for Submissions Deadline: 16th March 2018 Submission fee: one portrait for £10, three for £15 and six for £25 At Surface Gallery this spring, artists are invited to explore ‘what is portraiture today?’ Portraits have always been more than...

Image CreditPhoto taken during the module "The Shifting Place. Aesthetic, spatial and temporal fractures of transitional territories - a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU" mentored by Giusy Checola, 2016. Credits UNIDEE.

UNIDEE - University of Ideas – CALL for applications 2017

Now into its third year, and with a long history of residency programs for international artists (2000-2013) initiated by Michelangelo Pistoletto, the new UNIDEE - University of Ideas’ format proposes an educational model based on ‘other’ ways of gaining experience in the meeting of critical theory, activism and artistic practice, not through subordinate relationships but rather through levels of interaction, exchanges and reciprocal interference.

UNIDEE is an experimental school that these past two years has registered the great participation of 250 students from 38 different countries all over the world. These numbers are very encouraging and in a relationship of methodological continuity and semantic connection with the key words selected for 2015 (Temporality, Responsibility and Participation) and for those in 2016 (Research, Gift, Alteration), the 2017 course will use an interdisciplinary approach to examine three more macro-themes. They will be Revolution, Desire and Mediation (http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/statement.html), which are central to contemporary social-political debates as well as in the practices of many actors (artists, curators, public and private institutions, organisations, etc.) operating in the public sector.

Every year UNIDEE is based on laboratory or seminar modules that are held each week at Cittadellarte, moderated by a knowledgeable mentor with the support of a guest. The groups of participants, who are always different and arrive from all over the world, interact intensely as they discuss and examine relationships between art and the public sphere in depth, starting from different practices and going through connections with various disciplines (from visual art to the theory of economical politics, music, etc.). It is the starting point to educate ‘artivators’, or agents for the organisation of actions and processes responsible for change, in the social contexts in which they live.

The UNIDEE programme of 2017 consolidates the collaboration with Adrian Paci and confirms last year’s innovation: the bi-weekly residential module, where the first week will take place in Cittadellarte and the other in ArtHouse, Scutari.

The historical partnership with Fondazione Zegna will be reflected through the co-project of a workshop and a research module lead by Andrea Caretto / Raffaella Spagna, which will last for ten days.

In the frame of UNIDEE 2017, it is very important to mention the development of a new co-financed project by the European Union “Trauma & Revival. Cultural relations between Eastern and Western Europe”, in which Cittadellarte will host a three-week residential module with the tutorship of Aria Spinelli. Moreover, the bonds with cultural institutions, universities and fine arts academies (students gain ECTS credits upon a negotiated agreement) from all over the world are stronger.Anyhow, since the beginning of UNIDEE foundation, long residential programs have always been an essential feature and the collaborations with institutional partners will continue with Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, Qattan A. M. Foundation, the RESÓ network, without forgetting the Research-based Residency and the Connective Residency.