Pilar Juncosa & Sotheby’s Awards and Grants 2019. Open call

In accordance with the wishes of its founders, the aims of  the Fundació Miró Mallorca are to promote and disseminate contemporary creative values, to contribute to the training of young generations of artists and to encourage them in their commitment to innovation and genuine research into new channels of creative expression. The Foundation also wishes to collaborate in recognising Miró’s importance as an artist and man through educational programmes and projects that bring contemporary art closer to society.

PILAR JUNCOSA & SOTHEBY’S BIENNIAL AWARD FOR ARTISTIC CREATION

This year, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca wishes to promote art projects associated with Joan Miró’s Printmaking Workshops. These are located in an 18th-century country house called Son Boter, equipped by the artist himself for use as art studios and now considered to be one of the Fundació’s distinguishing features.

The award, worth a total of €20,000, shall be divided as follows: €6,000 as a prize for the artist and the rest for the creation and exhibition of the project.

PILAR JUNCOSA AWARD FOR AN EDUCATIONAL ART PROJECT

The Fundació Miró Mallorca offers a grant worth €4,000 for an educational art project.

This project must promote and encourage a greater interest in contemporary art among a specific sector of society (teachers, children, young people, the elderly, the handicapped, etc.) as well as being related to the Fundació’s documentary and artistic resources or to any other aspect of contemporary creation.

TRAINING GRANTS TO TAKE PART IN COURSES AT JOAN MIRÓ’S PRINTMAKING STUDIOS

The Fundació Miró Mallorca offers two grants to artists interested in printmaking techniques and printed editions to enable them to take part in one of the courses organized by the Fundació Miró Mallorca each summer in Joan Miró’s printmaking studios.

Each grant consists of free enrolment on one of the courses/workshops held the following year and a gross amount of €1,000 to cover travel expenses, accommodation, etc.

GRANTS FOR ARTISTIC TRAINING AT OTHER CENTRES

• 2 GRANTS FOR ACCOMMODATION AND PARTICIPATION AT CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ, MADRID

The Fundació Miró Mallorca offers two grants for a total of €3,000 to cover travel expenses, food, etc.

• 1 GRANT FOR ACCOMMODATION AND PARTICIPATION AT THE SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

The Fundació Miró Mallorca offers a grant for a total of €3,000 to cover travel expenses, accommodation, etc. in London.

1 TRAINING GRANT FOR THE WINNERS OF THE YOUNG CREATORS’ PRINTMAKING AWARD

Since 1996, the Fundació Miró Mallorca has collaborated in the Certamen de Arte Gráfico para Jóvenes Creadores (Young Creators’ Printmaking Award), organized this year by the Calcografia Nacional of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the Real Casa de la Moneda and Fundación Azcona.

The Fundació offers a training grant to one of the winners of the Certamen de Arte Gráfico para Jóvenes Creadores (Young Creators’ Printmaking Award).