Call for applications. A new artists' residency is being created in Nantes. Created in October 2020 by the Musée-atelier de l'imprimerie de Nantes and the visual artist Alexandre Meyrat Le Coz, the AZERTY project is a residency for creation and artistic research.
Dialogue between the artist's work and printing techniques
The residency lasts 45 days at the Nantes Museum and Print Shop, with a production grant, an honorarium, accommodation for artists from outside the Nantes area, a shared work space and the support of a technician, communication of the work to ensure wide visibility of the project, and an exhibition period.
"One of the challenges of this residency is to allow the birth of a dialogue between the artist's personal work and the techniques of printing announces the Museum.
The future resident artist will be selected in September 2021, the residency will take place in January and February 2022 and the exhibition in July and August 2022. This residency is currently aimed at artists from the Pays de la Loire region, but could be open to the national territory for its next editions.
Both a conservatory of the old book trades and a workshop open to contemporary creations, the Nantes Museum and Workshop of Printing has a large collection of movable typefaces, lithographic presses and intaglio printing.
The Museum is managed by the association Pro arte graphica: volunteers, mostly professionals of the printing and book industry, who bring their know-how to maintain and develop the place: typography, lithography, linocut, intaglio, paper making, calligraphy, illumination, bookbinding.
