Two Civitella Residencies Offered By Application Through UNESCO

A residency by application is available for one visual artist and one writer at the Civitella Ranieri Center in 2011 through our collaboration with The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme.

The Civitella Ranieri Foundation will provide the two selected UNESCO-Aschberg Laureates with an apartment, work space, and two meals six days per week for a six-week residency. UNESCO will provide round trip air travel to Rome from the country of origin. The Laureates may each choose from one of four sessions in our residency season running from May through October, 2011.

Eligibility:
The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme is open to professional international visual artists and writers, except for those living within the United States and the United Kingdom. Candidates must be between 25 – 35 years of age. English is the common language at The Center therefore the Laureate must be able to speak English reasonably well.

The announcement will be made on the UNESCO website on August 15th. The application deadline will be November 15th and the Laureates will be contacted in early January, 2011.

Application:
Please visit our website NEWS section after August 16th for the link to the Civitella Ranieri Foundation/UNESCO-Aschberg application. All applicants will need to upload a 3-page maximum CV/resume/bio, write briefly about your work and describe a possible project you would work on while at Civitella. All applications and submissions should be in English.

Work submissions:
For Writers, upload one Word or PDF document with up to 25 pages of prose, or 10 poems (25 pages maximum). For Visual Artists: upload 8 jpeg images. If you work with video, mail in one DVD with up to 10 minutes of video to our NY office (it should arrive by November 15th).