Open call

Immersion 2025

Applications are closed for 2025

Adélard is excited to announce the call for projects for the Summer season 2025. Artists are invited to submit a proposal for our residency program. Our Immersive-residency program is addressed to professional artists, emerging or established, practising all forms of visual arts, and with no restriction as to place of residence or nationality. The immersive residencies, each lasting six weeks, will take place between May and September in our heritage barn in Frelighsburg.

Adélard

Adélard is a non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary art, located in Frelighsburg, Quebec. It offers residencies, exhibitions, events and cultural activities that connect artists with the community through encounters and exchanges. During the summer season, Adélard offers artists the opportunity to participate in the Immersion residency program.

Immersive residencies

Adélard offer six-week immersive residencies, each to one artist. The immersive residency is based on two mainstays: that of giving artists time and space to develop a project and that of creating connections with the local community.

Depending on their project, artists in residency will have an opportunity to collaborate with local artists, artisans, and partners to discuss particular areas of expertise, or to explore or become involved with the territory. 

 

An open residency

During weekdays, the Adélard barn, where the studio is located, is reserved exclusively for the artist. On Saturdays and Sundays, the artist may keep working and the barn will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m. The public is invited to visit the barn, meet the artist, visit an exhibition, and/or participate in cultural mediation activities. 

Cultural mediation

Given Adélard’s mission, which is to bring artists and people together, artists in immersive residency agree to participate in at least one cultural mediation activity related to their project. These activities are formulated in consultation with the manager of Adélard’s educational activities. 

 

The barn

Adélard is situated in a heritage barn in the heart of the village of Frelighsburg. The site is warm and welcoming, relatively large, and well lit. The space is informally divided into three areas: a studio space, an exhibition space, and a mediation space. The table is situated in the centre of the barn and offers an invitation to discuss, converse, work, or think. Artists may occupy different parts of the space to develop their projects. Some equipment and services are made available to the artists, including a fridge, a sink, Internet access, tools, etc.

Presentation of artworks

On the upper floor of the barn, Adélard offers artists an exhibition space so that they can exhibit their previous production and undertake a dialogue with the public (Saturdays and Sundays).

A hanging and lighting system is available to artists for presentation of their selection of works or for an exhibition that will have been discussed beforehand with the organization’s management. 

Download the map of the barn : click here

  • A private apartment, located a short walk from the barn, is available to artists. It includes a bedroom with a double bed. It contains all conveniences necessary for the stay, including Wi-Fi Internet access. A washing machine and dryer are also available in the apartment, which is situated on the second floor of a century-old house and is accessible via a staircase.

    Thanks to the support of our partners and sponsors, this apartment is offered free of charge to artists for their six-week stay.

  • Frelighsburg, situated in the Eastern Townships near the border with Vermont, is considered one of the most beautiful villages in Québec. It offers fertile soil for creativity, with its wealth of nature, its lively cultural sector, the emergence of organic producers, and a commitment to ecology, sustainable development, heritage, and education. Frelighsburg is the ideal spot for the immersive residencies to take place in a spirit of accessibility and evolution that is beneficial to both the community and the contemporary artists. The project, based on dialogue and exchange, also takes place in a spirit of openness to the world made possible in this diversified, welcoming community.

 

OUR RESIDENCY PROGRAM INCLUDES

  • A working studio

  • An exhibition space on the upper floor of the barn

  • Private lodging for the artist 

  • An honorarium of $2,000, including:  : 
    Presentation of an assessment of the work done at the end of the immersive residency

  • $300 honorarium will be offered for each cultural mediation activity 

  • $500 exhibition royalty for the artworks presented on the upper floor of the barn

  • Access to local resource persons, among other things, to facilitate contact with the community and organize cultural mediation activities

Note : The cost of materials needed for mediation activities will be approved and defrayed by Adélard. Travel and subsistence costs, as well as materials and specialized equipment, are not covered by Adélard. Artists from outside of Canada are responsible for administrative steps and obtaining their documents for entry to Canada (visa, etc.). 

    • Be present on site throughout the immersive residency period; 

    • Be available to meet and converse with members of the community, particularly when Adélard is open to the public on weekends; 

    • Present their assessment before departure; 

    • Participate in at least one cultural mediation activity 

  • The selection committee is composed of peers and people recognized for their expertise in the field. A mix of genders, generations, and diversity are represented on the committee.

    • The artistic quality of projects submitted, specifically as relates to the mandate and values of Adélard; 

    • What the immersive residency will contribute to the artist’s career; 

    • General considerations with regard to representativeness and diversity of artists selected. 

 

Submit your application

Applications are received via an online form. Before you start the application process, please prepare:

  • your artist statement (500 words max)

  • your project description (500 words max)

  • ideas about a cultural mediation activity related to your project (150 words max)

  • a visual portfolio with maximum 15 images and video links, accompanied by a list of descriptions compiled into a single pdf file. Your pdf file must weigh maximum 10 mo. If the file is too heavy, please send it via WeTransfer to gauthier@adelard.org.

  • A curriculum vitae, in pdf, maximum 3 pages, presenting the applicant’s pertinent accomplishments 

For any questions, please email us at gauthier@adelard.org.