BAU AT CAMARGO ARTS RESIDENCY AWARD

  • Location: The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. The fellowship provides artists with live-work apartments at no cost. The Camargo Foundation campus is located directly on the Mediterranean Sea with breathtaking views of the harbor and Cap Canaille, the highest maritime cliff in Europe. It is a short walk to the village of Cassis with regional open markets, restaurants and stores where necessities may be found. There is abundant food shopping. A short walk along the coast brings you to the National Park of the Calanques with spectacular limestone cliffs. The lively city of Marseille is 30 minutes away by train, bus or car. From Marseille it is an easy transfer to either the airport or the express train system for travel within France and other European cities. The Camargo Foundation is a seven minute drive to the train station in Cassis.
  • Deadline: Mar 15 2016 at 11:03PM
BAU Institute is a non-profit 501(3)C based in New York City. The mission of the BAU Institute is to support visual artists, creative and dramatic writers, composers, performance artists and other arts professionals in the creation and exhibition of new work. BAU Institute offers residencies in France and Italy to provide uninterrupted time and space for the development of new work in settings of cultural interest and extraordinary natural beauty.
n 2014 BAU Institute launched a new arts residency hosted by the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. The Residency provides BAU Institute funded Fellowships for the realization of projects in the arts. There is no cost to attend. Creative practioners demonstrating a serious commitment to their practice and a desire to work independently within an international community are welcome to apply. The BAU at Camargo Fellowship provides artists with live-work apartments at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. at no cost.
A public exhibition and reading/performance will be held at FiveMyles gallery in Brooklyn, NY in January 2017 to showcase the new work created at the residency.

2016 RESIDENCY DATES
August 1 – August 22.

DEADLINE:
On-line applications are accepted between December 7, 2015 and March 15, 2016 at 11:59PM EST online via submittable:
https://bauinstitute.submittable.com/submit

COSTS
There is a $40.00 application fee. Notification of the admission committee decision will be in mid April. Upon acceptance a refundable security deposit of $250.00 is due.
BAU at Camargo provides live/work housing at no cost. There is no fee to attend.

ELIGIBILITY
BAU Institute welcomes international applicants. The residency supports the development of work in the Visual Arts (including photography, video and new media), Creative Writing, Dramatic Writing, Performance and Musical Composition. The residency may accommodate up to 15 people at a time. Fellowship selections are determined by a rotating panel of discipline specific professionals. While current students (except for non-traditional students and advanced PhD candidates) are not eligible to apply, we strongly encourage applications from recent graduates and emerging artists.

For more information please visit the BAU Institute website:
http://www.bauinstitute.org
http://www.bauinstitute.org/index.php?page=cassis-france