Residencies and fellowships

Residencies

Every year Scuola Piccola Zattere will host 3 established artists from different fields, whose work is pertinent to the themes of the general program. About 3 months long, residencies are intended for artistic research and for work on a specific project, commission, or exhibition. The artists in residency will also contribute to the educational activities of the Scuola by serving as tutors and mentors, giving workshops, and sharing their research process.

Alongside this program, starting from January 2026, the Scuola will also launch an annual program of short-term residencies dedicated to Italian artists working in the performing arts, focused on the development of projects in progress. This program is designed as a space for ongoing support, spread throughout the year, to nurture research and creative processes that are still in an open phase. The residencies provide time, context, and critical support to allow projects to mature in their evolution, fostering opportunities for exchange, feedback, and dialogue with the Scuola's community and its broader ecosystem of practices.

Participants are invited directly by the institution.

Fellowships

The fellowship program provides grants and workspace to emerging artists, curators, authors from the local, national, or international scene. Lasting 3 or 5 months, a fellowship is an opportunity to focus on one’s research or ongoing projects, in dialogue with the Scuola’s artistic community. Fellows both receive and provide education, work with other participants from different cultural contexts and disciplines, and contribute to the Scuola’s public programs. This will help initiate a circular, iterative approach to the research process, opening up new areas of exploration, to the benefit of subsequent phases of study, development, and production. During the year 4 fellowships will be assigned to international or Italy-based participants, while 4 will be reserved for applicants based in Venice.