Individual Residency Programme Italy: TAKING TIME
Type
Residency
Category
Other
Status
Open for Applications
Deadline
October 1, 2025
Application Fee
Free
Host
The Museum of Loss and Renewal
Location
Naples, Italy
Individual Residency Programme, Italy
TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO
Location: Collemacchia, Italy
Still places available between June and October 2025, minimum length of two weeks.
An Individual Residency provides uninterrupted periods of time in the beautiful environment of Collemacchia in Italy’s Molise region, home to Tracy’s Italian family for centuries.
There is no expectation of a final outcome of the residency. Whether you wish simply to be up close to your practice, allow nature to suffuse your thinking and feeling, produce new work or complete a project, at The Museum of Loss and Renewal the utmost will be done to ensure that you can achieve what you set out to do. Residents receive support and informal mentoring from Tracy and Associates during the residency period, and ongoing support after the residency.
Applications are open to creative practitioners such as visual artists, film makers, writers, poets, performance artists, curators, designers, craft makers, musicians, theatre makers and researchers who work either individually or collaboratively.
DATES
Residency periods are available between May and end of October each year.
The minimum residency period is 2 weeks, however for the full benefit of all that the residency programme provides, a minimum period of 3 weeks is recommended.
APPLICATIONS ARE REVIEWED ON A ROLLING BASIS.
The outcome of your application will be communicated within two weeks.
FOCAL POINTS
Time: to produce, reflect, explore, focus
No expectation of a final outcome
Individual practice
International peer-group of fellow residents
Interdisciplinarity
Sharing
Curator / Associate meeting
Excellent studio / working space
Excellent accommodation
Library: art, design, architecture, curating, collecting, (art)writing, publishing, walking …
Natural environment of exceptional significance, accessible from the doorstep
Local amenities within walking distance
FEE
The residency fee is €500 per week, per person. The fee is heavily subsidised and additionally, residents receive support and informal mentoring during the residency period, and ongoing support after the residency.
Testimonials
“The individual residency, Taking Time / Prendendo Tempo offered me the unique opportunity to do just that — take time to experience Molise — one of my ancestral lands.
Each day provided new opportunities to connect and learn from the other residents and engage in self-reflection of my own artist practice; all under the guidance of the extraordinary Tracy Mackenna.”
-Kate Colabella, USA, 2024
“Tracy is a fantastic mentor and guide, and I surprised myself by how easily I was able to settle and start making and thinking.
Excellent studios, accommodation and library. Collemacchia is a unique place which continues to resonate with me – I hope to return!"
-Marion Harrison, England, 2024
“A high-point in the cycle of my year as a composer, researcher, and educator.
Multiple residencies with The Museum of Loss and Renewal continue to provide both time and space in which to incubate my ideas and fuel ongoing research, and allow me to be in an enriching environment wherein I feel that I am able to return to my most true ‘self’ as a human, as a creator.
The fact that my great-grandparents came from a mountain village near Collemacchia has extra meaning for me: it brings my work beyond the purely academic, beyond the purely creative – it is personal, it is familial, and it continues to shape my identity, strengthening my feeling of connection to the inner and outer landscape.”
-Antonio Forte, USA, 2024
See website for more testimonials of former residents.
More information about the Individual Residency Programme, Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO:
https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/individual-residency-programme-italy/
APPLICATION
Applications can be made via the Application Form:
https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/individual-residency-programme-italy/application-information/
Please note that feedback on unsuccessful applications cannot be provided.
TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO
Location: Collemacchia, Italy
Still places available between June and October 2025, minimum length of two weeks.
An Individual Residency provides uninterrupted periods of time in the beautiful environment of Collemacchia in Italy’s Molise region, home to Tracy’s Italian family for centuries.
There is no expectation of a final outcome of the residency. Whether you wish simply to be up close to your practice, allow nature to suffuse your thinking and feeling, produce new work or complete a project, at The Museum of Loss and Renewal the utmost will be done to ensure that you can achieve what you set out to do. Residents receive support and informal mentoring from Tracy and Associates during the residency period, and ongoing support after the residency.
Applications are open to creative practitioners such as visual artists, film makers, writers, poets, performance artists, curators, designers, craft makers, musicians, theatre makers and researchers who work either individually or collaboratively.
DATES
Residency periods are available between May and end of October each year.
The minimum residency period is 2 weeks, however for the full benefit of all that the residency programme provides, a minimum period of 3 weeks is recommended.
APPLICATIONS ARE REVIEWED ON A ROLLING BASIS.
The outcome of your application will be communicated within two weeks.
FOCAL POINTS
Time: to produce, reflect, explore, focus
No expectation of a final outcome
Individual practice
International peer-group of fellow residents
Interdisciplinarity
Sharing
Curator / Associate meeting
Excellent studio / working space
Excellent accommodation
Library: art, design, architecture, curating, collecting, (art)writing, publishing, walking …
Natural environment of exceptional significance, accessible from the doorstep
Local amenities within walking distance
FEE
The residency fee is €500 per week, per person. The fee is heavily subsidised and additionally, residents receive support and informal mentoring during the residency period, and ongoing support after the residency.
Testimonials
“The individual residency, Taking Time / Prendendo Tempo offered me the unique opportunity to do just that — take time to experience Molise — one of my ancestral lands.
Each day provided new opportunities to connect and learn from the other residents and engage in self-reflection of my own artist practice; all under the guidance of the extraordinary Tracy Mackenna.”
-Kate Colabella, USA, 2024
“Tracy is a fantastic mentor and guide, and I surprised myself by how easily I was able to settle and start making and thinking.
Excellent studios, accommodation and library. Collemacchia is a unique place which continues to resonate with me – I hope to return!"
-Marion Harrison, England, 2024
“A high-point in the cycle of my year as a composer, researcher, and educator.
Multiple residencies with The Museum of Loss and Renewal continue to provide both time and space in which to incubate my ideas and fuel ongoing research, and allow me to be in an enriching environment wherein I feel that I am able to return to my most true ‘self’ as a human, as a creator.
The fact that my great-grandparents came from a mountain village near Collemacchia has extra meaning for me: it brings my work beyond the purely academic, beyond the purely creative – it is personal, it is familial, and it continues to shape my identity, strengthening my feeling of connection to the inner and outer landscape.”
-Antonio Forte, USA, 2024
See website for more testimonials of former residents.
More information about the Individual Residency Programme, Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO:
https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/individual-residency-programme-italy/
APPLICATION
Applications can be made via the Application Form:
https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/individual-residency-programme-italy/application-information/
Please note that feedback on unsuccessful applications cannot be provided.