Individual Residency Programme, Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal
Apply for an individual residency of 2-24 weeks in Isernia, Italy, a time to produce, reflect, explore, and focus on your creative practice with support from Tracy McKenna and Associates.
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- 34 days left
- Entry fee
- $500
- Location
- Isernia, Italy
- Exhibition window
- May 1, 2026 → Oct 31, 2026
About
Overview
An individual residency programme in Italy's Molise region offering uninterrupted periods of creative time in a beautiful natural environment within the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park. Residents receive support and informal mentoring from Tracy McKenna and Associates, with opportunities for peer feedback and collaboration.
Residency Details
- Duration: 2–24 weeks
- Location: Collemacchia, Isernia, Italy
- Residency periods available: May 1 – October 31 each year
- Average 5 artists in residence at a time
- Private bedroom in shared housing on campus
- Universally designed, accessible facilities
What's Provided
- Private studios and shared studios
- Shared kitchen access; meals provided
- Printers, scanner, easels, drawing benches, large sinks
- Library (art, design, architecture, curating, art writing, publishing, walking)
- Open studio with fellow residents
- Peer feedback and critique opportunities
Eligibility
Open to visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performance artists, curators, designers, craft makers, musicians, theatre makers, researchers, and others working individually or collaboratively. Any stage of career. Based anywhere in the world. Spouses/partners and children allowed for full stay.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: October 1, 2026
- Applications reviewed on rolling basis
- Outcome communicated within two weeks
Fees
The residency fee is €500 per week per person, heavily subsidized. No application fee. Artists are responsible for funding and organizing their own travel, insurances, and visa requirements. Successful applicants often source funding through national arts funding bodies, academic institutional support, or personal fundraising. Letters of invitation provided to assist in funding applications.
Application
- Applications open to creative practitioners working individually or collaboratively
- No expectation of a final residency outcome
- Open application type
- Entry fee
- €500 per week, per person; heavily subsidized. No application fee.
- Theme
- A time and space to produce, reflect, explore, and focus on creative practice within a beautiful natural environment of exceptional significance, with no expectation of a final outcome.
- Eligibility
- Open to visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performance artists, curators, designers, craft makers, musicians, theatre makers, researchers, and others working individually or collaboratively, any stage of career, based anywhere in the world.
- Audience
- Open to creative practitioners at any stage of career, based anywhere in the world.
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