ACI Artists, Writers and Scholars Residency
International residency program
in the Italian countryside next to the 2,000+ year old Umbrian hill town of Corciano, Italy
Don Kimes, Artistic Director. Lois Jubeck, Managing Director

THE 2023 PROGRAM IS FULL. WE ARE CURRENTLY RESPONDING TO INQUIRIES ABOUT THE 2024 PROGRAM.
Residencies open to all nationalities:
Session 1, June 16-June 29, 2024
(arrive June 16, depart morning of June 29)
Session 2, June 30-July 13, 2024
(arrive June 30, depart morning of July 13)
Session 3, July 14-27, 2024
(arrive July 14, depart morning of July 27)
It is possible to do more than one session for a longer residency period (with a 10% discount on the second and/or third sessions). Please contact us via email if you would like to receive additional information. We will begin reviewing applications for the 2024 program on September 1, 2024. and will continue accepting and reviewing them until the program is full.
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New residencies in 2024
South Korean Artists at ACI
Dates TBA: Contact us via email for more information
Iranian Artists at ACI
Dates TBA: Contact us via email for more information


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ACI - Art and Culture in Italy
Artists and writers need other artists and writers in order to exceed their individual possibilities. We need uninterrupted time to focus on our work, and we also share a need for meaningful dialogue. We have established the Art and Culture in Italy (ACI) residency because we believe this kind of opportunity can be especially productive in this historic location in central Italy, a place which, for millennia, has been a focal point for creative possibility.
From the Etruscans, who first settled Corciano more than 2,500 years ago (before the Romans existed) to Perugino, Raphael, and Piero della Francesca, to the contemporary artists who have settled in this region known for it's mystical beauty, Umbria has always been a place where transformative thought and creative possibility meet.
Willem de Kooning once remarked "you learn a lot just by talking with other artists". Artists, art historians, critics, poets and writers have always benefitted when kind of ambient synergy exists. Consistently the collaboration between artists and writers has proven mutually supportive. Cezanne and Zola, Gertrude Stein and Picasso, Lee Krasner and Harold Rosenberg, all come to mind as historical examples of this symbiosis. The ACI residency program in Umbria is dedicated to creating an environment where artists and writers are able to pursue their craft in a focused manner, with possibilities for the incubation of their own interests and the opportunity to develop ambient dialogue in proximity to one another.





Above: The terrace a few steps from our workspaces
Below:
Left: The terrace adjoining our rooms
Center: Piero della Francesca in nearby Perugia
Right: Daily dinner in the villa





Two views from two of our rooms
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
Rainer Maria Rilke