Fondation
La Madeleine

Foundation la Madeleine, and the associated Studio la Madeleine, provides artist residencies with a focus on female artists, emphasising cross disciplinary collaborations. With an emphasis on music, poetry, and paper-based works.

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Mission

Our mission is the building up of a community of women artists in Europe alongside a network of professionals supporting initiatives in Europe through the following activities:

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• Annual invitational fully supported co-creative paid artist residency "Fabrica Femina" in France each year

• Annual artistic & professional gathering in France with roundtable discussions with our with partners in France, Italy, Germany, and the UK.

• Development of the Women in Arts Digital Library

• A series of travelling Fabrica Femina events in Europe, entailing community events and concerts (Cities for 2025: Talin, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin)

 

Current Fundraising and Future Activities

 

Physical artist residency house: The current estimate is 100,000€

 

We are currently seeking private donations to convert the beautiful barn that sits next to the studio into a living space to house artists in residence. 

 

Completion of this project will allow us to offer: more flexibility in the timing of residencies, more artist residency spaces each year, the accommodation of groups, the accommodation artist's children should they wish to include them in their residency, and enable us to offer residencies to artists with a wider set of physical abilities (the property is very old so while we have been renovating the studio to be more accessible unfortunately this is not possible with the current residence). 

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This residence will provide a rare opportunity of residencies that can accommodate artists with children!

 

This means retrofitting an actual physical building and is therefore a one-time fundraising goal. (everything from rooftop to plumbing)

 

 

Open call semi-supported residencies: 1200€ per year.

 

Patronage per residency is 1200€ and supports half-board costs including access to the studio for 2 artists for 2 weeks.

 

While the studio is available for rent year round for development or recording projects, we plan to build a half-support (50/50 split cost with the artists) open call for residents who are not part of the annual Fabrica Femina event.

 

This is an ongoing funding request for patronage that supports artists on an ongoing basis.

 

We will also happily accept "one-off" donations to support such a residency for 1 artist.  However, this is not an offer to "buy in" a specific  artist. Once applications are opened eligible artists will be selected by the board.