April Residency for BOOK project (in Trevelin – Chubut – Argentina)

We-Che Art Residency is an artist run project, founded by the artistic duo Raom&Loba. In line with our own vision and experience, we humbly wish to offer others what we have received from our peers at different points in our artistic careers: an inspiring place, a warm and quiet workspace, conducive to constructive exchanges with artists from every parts of the world… as a small, human-scale adventure.

We-Che is located on 2ha slice of landscape, crossed by a river, planted of pine and native trees on the 259 Road. close to the historic village of Trevelin founded by Welsh immigrants and 15km from Futaleufú and the Chilean border. A natural nest, backing onto a protected natural area of over 250 ha the Nant y Fall river and its waterfalls. In the heart of the 16th of October Valley, its vineyards, its famous and vast 5million tulip field, facing the majestic pre-Andean mountains in the background at just a few kilometers from the southern entrance of Los Alerces National Park.

We-Che, means Young in Mapuche language, and we encourage artists to connect to Patagonia as a natural historical and cultural environnement. Our proposal is to spend time and space away to retreat, create and rejuvenate, gathering new inspiration, and also participate to a more respectful relationship between Art and Nature.

We welcome all creators and writers if their project fits to We-Che, evaluating if our structure can give all the necessary space and is able to promote the better experience for each one.

Any book related discipline are welcome, amongst them writers and poets, story-tellers, photographers, paper-artists and small format 2D practices (illustration, botanical drawings, natural eco prints, collage & die-cut, watercolor, sketching), graphic-novelists, travel writers, … willing to achieve a book project. We have a special love for books, and a long experience as graphic designers, artists and author, in editing and making books of any kind, at any diffusion scale. For the April session, we will specially configurate the shared work space for it, with a special focus on hand crafting autonomous possibilities (manual tools for special folding, paper and cardboard cutting tools, sewing machine, book-binding press…) and paper art and drawing facilities.

This special format 25 days book residency, the fee is 1500$/resident. Our April call is particularly aimed to form a cohort of 3 or 4 book related creators. It is a half self directed half guided residency with a puntual grupal or individual mentorship when needed to support each project and achieve each-one's book in a 25 days residency from A to Z. Residents are free to work on several books projects, and depending to affinities, to work together on a grupal book also.

As the special format is for artists to achieve a book or an Art-book project, we expect residents to be ready to really intent to achieve at least one book. Depending on the project, the final book can be digital format, or ready to print HD pdf, or few exemplar craft edited artbook. For more ambitious book projects, aiming to a final professional HD printing, if needed, an additional complete professional graphic design and production support may be added with extra cost, (price based on time and on complexity).

Residency fee includes: Housing and Workspace, tools and facilities, some basic supplies, access to eclectic evolutiv library, private bedroom and bathroom, cleaning and fresh bedlinen and bath towels each week, Wi-Fi internet connection, Heating, Water, electricity, and gas costs, Esquel Airport pickup and return, 1 group outing/week for visiting some points of interest, 2 outings/week for art supplies and groceries.

We-Che is an independant artists-run residency and we do not receive any financial funding or subside of any kind, so we are currently unable to provide financial support for visiting artists. For artists applying for grants and scholarships in their home country We-Che can provide official documents and letters of invitation as necessary.