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The Foundation welcomes qualified artists in all fields to its residency program at the Château de La Napoule where exhibitions, readings, concerts, performances, seminars and conferences are held throughout the year.
La Napoule Art Foundation is incorporated as an American not-for-profit 501(c)3 public institution in the State of New York ; it is recognized as an association loi 1901 in France, receiving public funding.
La Napoule Art Foundation receives aid from the French Ministry of Culture, the Conseil Régional de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Conseil général des Alpes maritimes and the town of Mandelieu-La Napoule. Other support comes from private and public funding sources in the United States, as well from the Foundation's endowment.
Partnerships have been established with numerous cultural organizations in Europe, including music, film and arts festivals. the Château also hosts studio art courses in addition to music, literature and art history seminars conducted by American and French universities.
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- To operate the Château de La Napoule as an international center for nurturing and inspiring the talents of artists from all nations.
- To foster the creative processes as a means of advancing international understanding.
- To develop international programs that are grounded in our French and American heritage.
- To restore, preserve, exhibit and promote the artwork, Château and gardens of Henry and Marie Clews.
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| Thomas Urquhart to Head Up La Napoule Art Foundation |
La Napoule Art Foundation http://www.chateau-lanapoule.com President Noele Clews announced the appointment of former Maine Audubon Director Thomas Urquhart as the foundations new Executive Director. From its base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the foundation operates the Clews Center for the Arts in La Napoule, France, near the site of the famed Cannes Film Festival.
We are ecstatic to have found someone of Thomas Urquhart's stature to lead LNAF into the next decade, says Clews. He combines an extensive background in the arts with a broad international and cultural experience. And he has the perfect blend of idealism and pragmatism that the board feels is essential for a 21st century non-profit. We look forward to his leadership in refining our focus on sculpture and our artist residency program.
It is an extraordinary facility, says Urquhart, an ideal milieu for inspiration, and a magnet that attracts renowned as well as emerging artists. Over the years it has hosted an impressive roster of artists. Urquhart sees his task as raising awareness of the foundation, helping focus a competitive artistic program, redefining the Artist Residency Program, and developing a first-rate center where selected artists can work for up to a year at a time.
Urquhart, who is British, is a graduate of Oxford University. He began his career as an arts administrator with the American and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and as director of the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Besides the arts, his other love is the natural world, and as director of the Maine Audubon Society, he brought a series of outdoor sculpture exhibits celebrating art in the landscape to the Societys visitor center at Gilsland Farm. He has lived and worked in France and, during a sabbatical there, wrote For the Beauty of the Earth: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys http://www.thomas-urquhart.com , a personal exploration of the relationship between art and nature. He lives nowin Falmouth, Maine.
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