Mission & History
L’AiR Arts* is a not-for-profit organisation (une association à but non lucratif soumise à la loi 1901) with a mission to support intercultural artistic exchange through international residency programs, while promoting diversity, inclusion and international understanding through artistic and cultural heritage.
Founded in 2016, L'AiR Arts was launched with the Journées du Patrimoine / European Heritage Days as an “Atelier sur Seine”, a fully-funded artist residency, located near Fontainebleau at the historic studio of the French painter, Etienne Dinet. Since 2018, L’AiR Arts is based at FIAP Jean Monnet, an international exchange center, in the historic art district of Montparnasse in the heart of Paris. L’AiR Arts curated programs aim to encourage artistic encounters and foster cultural exchanges between artists and cultural professionals from around the world in a global art capital.
*About our name: Founded in France, L'AiR is a French version of Artists-in-Residence, it can also be read as Lair, artist's lair or a studio / atelier where artist lives, works, and develops ideas - a space and time designed to support the creative process. Some would also like to think that the name is linked to Marcel Duchamp's work "Air de Paris / Air of Paris". All of the above interpretations are valid, choose the one you like!
Founded in 2016, L'AiR Arts was launched with the Journées du Patrimoine / European Heritage Days as an “Atelier sur Seine”, a fully-funded artist residency, located near Fontainebleau at the historic studio of the French painter, Etienne Dinet. Since 2018, L’AiR Arts is based at FIAP Jean Monnet, an international exchange center, in the historic art district of Montparnasse in the heart of Paris. L’AiR Arts curated programs aim to encourage artistic encounters and foster cultural exchanges between artists and cultural professionals from around the world in a global art capital.
*About our name: Founded in France, L'AiR is a French version of Artists-in-Residence, it can also be read as Lair, artist's lair or a studio / atelier where artist lives, works, and develops ideas - a space and time designed to support the creative process. Some would also like to think that the name is linked to Marcel Duchamp's work "Air de Paris / Air of Paris". All of the above interpretations are valid, choose the one you like!
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