The workshops
Every year, the Foundation organizes at least two Workshops, studios of study and meeting.
Each year, one of those workshops takes place in a different country of Africa in cooperation with artistic residences. The guests are about ten and five of them come from the African continent.
The other Workshop is held every summer in Joucas in France and it welcomes six artists coming from the African continent or from the Diaspora and six artists from the PACA region.
The aims of those workshops are:
- creating meetings and exchanges.
- enabling the enrichment of knowledge.
- contributing to good-quality activities of the African and regional artistic scene.
The artists are invited to work especially on the theme of the annual exhibition of the Foundation. Their thoughts, their creation and their exchanges fill out the “Cahiers Critiques”, the review.
Those workshops also have the purpose of advising, encouraging and passing on learning to young students and future artists who also have the opportunity to participate* in the workshop. They can also create works of art, which may be presented in the exhibition of Joucas or may become the subject of publication done by the Foundation.
So, the workshops are defined as being pluridisciplinary, multi-ethnic and intergenerational.
Participation in workshops...
It is the Foundation’s cultural committee that chooses the artists according to a complete file about his professional career (a file including a curriculum vitae, a covering letter, photos, publications...). This file is to be sent in a letter or by e-mail at the following address:
Centre d'Art
Fondation Jean-Paul Blachère
384, avenue des argiles
84400 APT - FRANCE
info@fondationjpblachere.org
Guarantees given to the artist by the foundation:
The Foundation takes care of the artist's expenses with regards to the transport and to his stay (accommodation and food). It also provides for the tools and the materials which are essential for the artist's creation.
It is accountable for the quality of the artistic seminars. During the workshop, synergies will possibly be developed with artists coming from the reception country.
*Wilful young people take part in the Foundation’s workshops at their own expenses but they can ask for scholarship, grants and other different financial support.
