Artist, educator, curator & researcher · Co-Director, Ponte d’Arte
Residency · Centro, Portugal · 2015–present
An artists’ retreat and residency on the banks of the Rio Alva in central Portugal — studio time, master classes and a community of makers, in one and a half hectares of wild riverside gardens. Applications from artists are welcome.
Image to come(Missing info)Ponte d’Arte is an artist’s retreat, residency and meeting point for the exchange of knowledge in the Centro region of Portugal, on the banks of the Rio Alva near Ponte da Mucela. It offers studio time and accommodation, master classes and workshops, gatherings and events, and day trips into the surrounding landscape — a place that sets out to be, in its own words, “a bridge to self-discovery.”
Artists from around the world have worked here — among them Flora Paim (Brazil), Lana Steiler (France), Miguel Angel Montoya (Spain), Marion Bartko McCabe (South Africa), Giulia Yoshimura (Brazil), Teresa Almeida and Rita Leitão Neves (Portugal) and Kris van ’t Hof (Belgium) — many responding directly to the river, the gardens and the marks of fire and flood on the land.
The residency is co-directed by Celia de Villiers and Kris van ’t Hof. It is the Portuguese host and partner for Forgotten Lands, and grew from the network behind In Public In Particular.
Accommodation is in Celia’s own house — four bedrooms and a kitchen, set in the riverside gardens — with rooms open for shorter stays as well as full residencies.
Interested in a residency? Residency applications are encouraged; details of dates, studios, master classes and how to apply are on the Ponte d’Arte website.