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Medici Residency
with the Cité de la la bande dessinée et de l'image and the ADAGP
In 2018, the two cultural establishments, in partnership with ADAGP, set up a creative residency aimed at supporting an innovative project by an established comic book artist. The three partners have decided to repeat the initiative this year, offering a four-month residency that will take place over two periods, one in Rome at the Villa Medici in October and November, and the second at the Maison des auteurs de la Cité, in Angoulême, in January and February.
Residency requirements
Selection criteria
- The candidate must be an author working or living in France, or of French nationality living abroad, and he/she must present a project for the creation of a comic strip. The applicant must be the sole author of the project.
- The Académie de France in Rome will host the author/author in residence at the Villa Medici and provide accommodation/office space for the first part of the residency.
- The Maison des auteurs de la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image will host the artist in residence in Angoulême and provide accommodation and a studio after the residency at Villa Medici.
Financial terms and conditions
- ADAGP and the Cité will award a residency grant of €2,000 per month, i.e. €8,000 gross for 4 months.
- Travel to and from Rome from the author’s home will be covered up to a maximum of €1,000, and travel to and from Angoulême from the author’s home will also be covered up to a maximum of €400.
Application
In a single PDF file
- A curriculum vitae, including representative elements of the applicant’s artistic work;
- A letter of motivation ;
- A precise description of the project, 8,000 characters maximum, accompanied by a synopsis of around ten lines. The dossier should also include graphic documents relating to the project.
La Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image
The Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’ image is a public cultural cooperation structure created by the Charente department, the French Ministry of Culture, the city of Angoulême and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, dedicated to comics and images. It brings together a comics museum, exhibition galleries, a heritage library, a specialized public library, a documentation center, a residence for international writers (La Maison des Auteurs), a reference bookstore, and an arthouse cinema. The Cité has the largest collection of comics in Europe and actively supports young artists by hosting more than 50 authors-in-residence, more than 60 percent of whom are foreigners. Each year, the Cité welcomes more than 200,000 visitors and runs an extensive program of socio-educational initiatives to share the wealth of the Ninth Art with as many people as possible.
L'ADAGP
ADAGP is the French authors’ society for the visual arts. It collects and distributes royalties for nearly 200,000 artists worldwide, including 15,500 in France.
In particular, it manages collective rights (photocopying rights, private copying fees, retransmission by cable, satellite and ADSL, library lending, educational uses, etc.) for more than 1,000 comic and manga authors who are members of ADAGP. The authors’ society also collects resale rights when original plates and drawings are resold on the art market (auction houses or galleries).
Through its cultural action program, ADAGP encourages the creative scene by initiating and/or financially supporting projects that enhance the visual arts and promote them nationally and internationally.
Partners
Winners
2024 : Frédéric Coché
2023 : Julie Michelin
2022 : Maxim Cain
2021 : Guillaume Trouillard
2020 : Isabelle Boinot, Matthias Lehmann
2019 : Céline Guichard
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