Chance for Comic Artists to Travel and Attend Workshops in Italy, France and the Czech Republic

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

Invisible Lines

Deadline

10 Dec 2020

Study level

Vocational Education

Opportunity type

Workshops & Trainings

Specialities

Creative Arts and Design

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Syria , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Tunisia

Eligible Region

All Regions

Invisible Lines invites young comic and illustration artists from across Europe and neighboring countries to join three international workshops, each of them mentored by international comics and illustration masters. This international training will lead them to the creation of original artworks that will circulate in the most important comics festivals in Europe.

Invisible Lines intends to gather young artists from all around Europe, challenging them with inspirational tasks: how to draw the invisible? How to draw the feeling of belonging to a community of people and the people that live on the fringes of our society? How to express the meanings and the tiny everyday rituals that are interwoven in our lives, the habits we inherited from our family, the forgotten reasons that tie us to a place, our faiths, and our unanswerable questions?

Each workshop will focus on a different meaning of the “invisible”: invisible matters such as the spiritual and religious quest, that were considered to be fading by many intellectuals but which are instead claiming their place in several European countries; invisible matters such as the lives of migrants and refugees, at the center of media representations and yet rarely present with their own stories and voices; invisible matters like the abandoned places that are scattered all over Europe, a result of the ever-changing landscape.

Eligibility:

The project is aimed at young European artists, mainly illustrators and comic book artists. The participants must be over 18 years old and below 30 years old at the starting of the selection process, which will be 1st January 2021. So, any young artist with a date of birth between 1st January 1990 and 1st January 2002 is allowed to participate.

Benefits:

Selected artists will have the opportunity to travel to Venice, Tabor, and Strasbourg in order to attend the three workshops of the project. The outcome of the workshops will then be exhibited in three comic book festivals across Europe and a selection of them will be included in a final book showcasing the work done during the project and distributed during said exhibitions. Expenses directly related to workshops attendance, such as travel and accommodation, will be covered by the project. Details on reimbursing of expenses or on upfront payment for travels fee will be communicated to the artists upon selection.

Participant's Responsibilities:

Upon applying, applicants accept and thereby commit themselves, in case of being selected, to what follows, in its entirety:

full attendance at all three workshops.
availability, following the workshops, to partake in the necessary work leading to the publication.
ceasing of publishing rights of the works produced during the workshops to “Invisible Lines”, for the sole purpose of the project dissemination: this includes the physical outputs of the workshops; the reproductions of artworks produced during the workshops for communication purposes (posters, web and social media communications…); publication of some of the artworks in the final book of the project; the 3 post-workshops free-entry exhibitions considered as promotion of the project in 2021-2022.
availability to document and share the work in progress of the workshops.

About Invisible Lines:

Invisible Lines is a project dedicated to drawing the invisible. It offers young artists the opportunity to participate in workshops across Europe with international artists.

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