Round 3: Local Open Calls for National Artist Teams

Connecting, sharing and learning around Europe

Some of our project organisations are looking to get more artists to join their National Artist Teams (NAT). Here you can find information about the NAT in general and about the local Open Calls.

Local Open Calls

Finland, Turku 3.-30.9.2024

Individual artists can apply to be part of the Turku University of Applied Sciences´ Arts Academy NAT. You can apply by sending the following material by Monday 30.9.2024:

• Motivational letter (pdf-file)
• Artistic portfolio (pdf-file) or a link to an online artistic portfolio.
• Description of current digital media usage (pdf-file).

Send your application to pmp@turkuamk.fi by end of Monday 30.9.2024.

Italy 3-16.6.2024 – CALL IS CLOSED

• Motivational letter (pdf-file)
• Artistic portfolio (pdf-file) or a link to an online artistic portfolio.
• Description of current digital media usage (pdf-file).

Send your application to info@perypezyeurbane.org by end of Sunday 16.6.2024.

Malta 30.05.-13.6.2024 – CALL IS CLOSED

Jump on-board to learn how to make better use of digital media in moving ahead with your artistic career. 

National Artist Teams (NATs) are first and foremost artists focused on collaborating inside their local/regional groups and as importantly between the 7 PMP partners’ artists located in 6 different EU countries. They exist as collectives, gatherings, or interest groups for these artists and others who wish to learn, share, have conversations and co-create together with other artists.

NATs consist of artists who are interested in the international development of their careers, despite not having as many opportunities for their career development as some others. They are artists with diverse backgrounds, including those with fewer opportunities (due to e.g. minority status, societal, financial, or geographical challenges, disability, ethnicity or any other reason).

Online Seminars – Workshop Weeks – Residencies

Each country´s PMP partner selects 4-20 artist from their country (Finland, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Spain and Malta). After the selection, all NATs are invited to join Online Seminars and are eligible to apply to Workshop Weeks organized in different countries during the 3-year project.

Each Workshop Week will have 4 artist participating from each country. Participants travel, accommodation and food costs are covered and a per diem or honorarium will be paid. At these Workshop Weeks, NAT members will have the opportunity to collaborate with the NATs from other project countries. They will create methods and raw material for the PMP Toolkit.

All Workshop Week participants can apply for one of the several 2-month residencies that will take place in one of the following: (Already done: Southern Finland, Italy) Northern Finland, Spain and Croatia. The participating artists will get to develop the PMP Toolkit materials further, as well as work on their own art. For the residencies, the selected NATs will be supported with a honorarium.

Workshops, online seminars and all other project activities are built on five themes:

1. Media & Art (already done)
2. Online Media & Digital Storytelling (already done)
3. Social Media & Media Readership
4. Future Media
5. Media Professional Identity.

National Artist Teams gather monthly to discuss art, current topical issues, to co-create, to learn from one another and expert lectures, to share a meal, positive energy and peer-support. The final structure and content of the NAT gatherings will be decided by the artists themselves. At the end of the PMP project, an international, multi-media and multi-art exhibition will take place simultaneously in 6 locations around Europe. All NAT artists will get an opportunity to showcase their art at the exhibition.

NAT Open Call Criteria