Visual arts residencies
The visual arts residencies are open to painters, printmakers, photographers and other visual artists, for three or four weeks in an 18th-century house in the centre of Arraiolos. Each artist is assigned a studio space according to their needs: natural light, wall space, a large table or access to the garden. The studios are open 24 hours a day.
Painters have studios with natural light and easels. Printmakers have an equipped printmaking workshop with a Reig 150 etching press, rollers and an inking table, for drypoint, collagraph and other techniques with water-based inks. Photographers have video projectors and speakers, and the town and the plains, olive trees and cork oaks around it a few minutes from the house.
Work is followed by our curator in individual and group meetings, and each residency ends with an open studio and a professional photo session of the work.
Equipment
- Reig 150 etching press, with rollers and inking table
- Video projectors and speakers
Residency 2027
Spring
- 15 March – 11 April4 weeks
- 21 May – 10 June3 weeks
Summer
- 14 June – 11 July4 weeks
- 4 – 24 August3 weeks
Autumn
- 1 – 28 October4 weeks
- 1 – 28 November4 weeks
1,200€ for 4-week periodsResidency periods are fixed.
The residency programme is shared by all disciplines: curatorial follow-up, workshops, study visits and engagement with the community. See the programme and a sample 4-week residency