- DAR enters as a cultural accelerator in Castilla-La Mancha thanks to the Next Generation European funds
- The call is open to visual women artists from municipalities with fewer than 15,000 inhabitants in the province of Cuenca
València (14.03.2024). The DAR Project (Dones Artistes Rurals/Women Rural Artists) is an initiative that works with rural women artists to promote their personal and professional development through training for their professionalization, promotion of their artistic production, generation of collaborative projects, and the fostering of artistic collectives.
DAR was born in 2020 in the Valencian Community, with the support of the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana in collaboration with the Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània. This pioneering project began its journey in 2021 and focuses on a different territory in each edition. To date, it has carried out five editions in the Valencian Community, and in 2023, it expanded to Catalonia with two editions, thanks to Next Generation European funds and the Diputación de Tarragona.
Now, DAR begins its journey as a cultural accelerator in Castilla-La Mancha with the Next Generation European funds, where it will work in the province of Cuenca until 2026.
The DAR project has received several recognitions, such as the Best Project award in 2022 by AVVAC, Visual Artists of Valencia, Alicante, and Castellón, and inclusion in the list of the Culture Observatory of La Fábrica of the best rural culture projects in 2022 and 2023. The initiative is also part of the good practices maps of Culture and Ruralities from the Ministry of Culture and from the Red Rural Nacional, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food.
DAR opens the call for all municipalities with fewer than 15,000 inhabitants in the province of Cuenca. The selected women from the call, which closes on May 29, will become part of the DAR platform and will receive training for approximately four months on how the art market works, how to manage and promote their work, access cultural resources, and boost collaborative projects with other women artists. Women working in contemporary art through different disciplines such as drawing, painting, ceramics, engraving, screen printing, sculpture, photography, video art, street art, graffiti, performance, etc., who work full-time or part-time or wish to do so, may apply.
For more information and to submit applications until May 29: www.proyectodar.es
San Clemente, Cuenca
