ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP – RESIDENCE ITALY 2012 
La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti ( Florence ) Italy
Deadline: April 10 , 2012

La Macina di San Cresci , residence for artists member of RES ARTIS , announces that  the Provincia di Firenze will award two residency fellowships to artists. The program invites artists from around the world to apply to work for one month in a studio at la Macina di San Cresci.
The Fellowship recipients will receive  a € 500 stipend, private room, studio space.
The theme for the program is "Platform 948: where engage ideas and concepts about the environment. "
Develop a composition in which the machinery of nature and machine of art become one, through a series of interventions and through the perception of the artists.
A research that creates "views" and operates in-between reality and the different layers of the territory: the past, the contemporary economic culture, the temporal and spatial interrelationships.
A reflection on the socio-cultural, architectural, language, habits  characteristics of this place, the environment, the village , interlaced with the man and with habits whom he lives of this environment.

Application form and Guidelines : www.chianticom.com