**Update: The deadline for applications has been extended to 17.00 on 12 July 2022.**
Arts Council of Wales have launched two opportunities for Wales Venice 10:
Wales Venice 10 Fellowship.
The Fellowship is a unique 6-month paid opportunity for ten individuals working in the visual arts in Wales. It will provide a bespoke international professional development programme, delivered in partnership with Artes Mundi. Selected Fellows will connect with peers and professionals working internationally and will be encouraged to reimagine, and disrupt, current ways of thinking.
If you would like to find out more about joining the Wales Venice 10 Fellowship, Arts Council of Wales will be holding an online event on 10 and 13 June 2022. Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cymrodoriaeth-cymru-fenis-10-wales-venice-10-fellowships-tickets-350442291327
Notes from the online briefing sessions can be found here: https://arts.wales/resources/wales-venice-10-fellowship-briefing-notes
- Applications will open on 7 June 2022.
- Deadline for applications on 12 July 2022 at 5pm.
Wales Venice 10 Commissions.
Welsh and Wales-based artists will have the opportunity to apply for exciting commissions to make new work. The Commissions will be delivered by Artes Mundi and Disability Arts Cymru.
What is Wales Venice 10?
Arts Council of Wales has presented nine exhibitions at the prestigious Venice Biennale international art exhibition since 2003. However, in 2022 we have paused our participation. We want to use this time to rethink our approach to the Biennale and to international working, and work with artists on a different way of marking our 10th edition.
The Fellowship and The Commissions are opportunities that will support artists, curators, writers, and creative professionals working in the visual arts in Wales. Wales Venice 10 will help participants to develop their networks, skills and knowledge to support them to fulfil their international ambitions and explore new approaches.
Wales Venice 10 aims to focus on individuals that face barriers to progressing their international ambitions and have a diversity of lived experience, across a range of different points in their careers.
Wales Venice 10 aims to take bold steps forward to strengthen connections with local and global audiences, deliver on the Arts Council’s commitment to widening engagement, and respond to the climate emergency.
Wales Venice 10 will be delivered in partnership with Artes Mundi and Disability Arts Cymru and with Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.
You can find out more about Wales in Venice 2003 –2019 here: https://arts.wales/venice