Bakehouse Art Complex is proud to announce a new partnership with the prestigious Cité internationale des arts, a long-standing residency program based in Paris, France. This exciting new partnership will provide a Bakehouse artist, selected through a juried process, an exceptional professional and creative development opportunity to spend two months abroad at the studio residency program in the Marais. Since its foundation in 1965, the Cité internationale des arts has encouraged cross-cultural dialogue and provided a place where artists can engage with diverse audiences through residency programs ranging from two months to a year.

“The Cité internationale des arts is honored to welcome artists from Bakehouse Art Complex to join the over 1200 artists who come in residence at the Cité each year. We are excited about this new partnership and look forward to the creative exchanges and professional opportunities a residence at the Cité can offer to Bakehouse artists.” – Bénédicte Alliot, Director General of the Cité internationale des arts.

“Bakehouse is delighted to establish this exchange, the first such partnership for our organization. We are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to one of our artists. We also look forward to what our institution can learn from this prestigious affiliation with the Cité internationale des arts, as we envision and plan the future development of our campus and the evolution of our organization and program.” – Cathy Leff, Executive Director of Bakehouse Art Complex.

Every year, over 1,200 artists from over one hundred different countries and representing almost every creative discipline—visual arts, music and performing arts, exhibition curators, art historians, writers, and researchers—stay in one of the 325 live-in studios at the Cité internationale des arts, whose campus is divided between the Marais and Montmartre.

Through several artist-in-residence programs and with the help of its many partners, the Cité internationale des arts has provided artists of all disciplines the opportunity to live and work in Paris, advance their creative projects, and foster dialog and exchange with artists from around the world. The Cité internationale des arts allows artists to work in an environment conducive to creation and open to meetings with professionals from Paris’ rich cultural milieu. Residents benefit from customized support from the Cité internationale des arts’ team and access to the depth and diversity of Paris’s museums and other cultural resources and assets.

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