Cultivate's goal for La Baldi Residency is to expand the number of awards for selected residency candidates and to sustainably develop educational programming that brings La Baldi Residency and the community of Montegiovi, Italy together for learning, exchange, and research for all ages.
Cultivate's La Baldi Residency for artists, writers, and researchers is a multi-disciplinary residency that welcomes individuals and collaborative teams. Located in the historic village of Montegiovi, Italy, in southern Tuscany, the self-directed international residency is an opportunity to experiment, develop ideas and projects, dream, explore, rejuvenate, research, and investigate the land and culture of the special area.
Through the La Baldi Residency, Cultivate expands its platform for artists, writers, and researchers to investigate land, place, and the commons. Evolving projects include experimental and practical interdisciplinary explorations that wrestle with the qualities, perceptions, and layers of experience and relationships that inform and expand notions of landscape. Ideas from a full spectrum of voices across generations are supported using sustainable tactics. From the hyper-local to the global, Cultivate reflects individual and collective curiosity, intention, imagining, and engagement with the phenomena of landscape.
La Baldi Residency honors the inspiring, generous legacy of Maura Baldi— a dynamic educator of literature, a fierce protector of the curiosity and expression of youth, and a spirited advocate for art, sustainable land practices and the life and history of the area. “La Baldi” (The Baldi), as her beloved students called her, was and is even now a unique force in their lives. She trusted and believed in the power of their potential to be extraordinary human beings and engaged world citizens. Sharing and exchange were imperatives for La Baldi, and they permeate the ethos of the residency along with Cultivate’s free-ranging investigation of landscape.
La Baldi Residency is not a source of profit. We are committed to removing barriers that might prevent participation. If selected residents are able to pay the full price, they help to support another resident. We believe in creatives sustaining one another. We want to make this opportunity available to as wide a spectrum of applicants as possible and to enable a generous platform of community exchange.
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