{"id":4347145,"date":"2025-06-13T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_professional&#038;p=4347145"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:31:08","slug":"residents-stories-throughout-the-years","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/residents-stories-throughout-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"From Then to Now: Resident Success Stories Over Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Created in 2021, Villa Albertine offers one-of-a-kind exploratory residencies across the United States. Through this program, it support artists and intellectuals from France and the Francophone world as they draw inspiration from transformative immersive experiences in the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, nearly 60 talented creators embark on these exploratory journeys throughout the United States. Chosen from among approximately 900 annual applicants across 15 disciplines (visual arts, performing arts, new media, and more) by an international jury, our residents reflect the excellence, diversity, and dynamism of contemporary French culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Villa Albertine\u2019s fifth anniversary season in 2026, more than 300 residents will have been hosted across 60 US locations, from New York to Alaska, South Dakota to Los Angeles, building an international network of creative and intellectual exchange. Villa Albertine\u2019s offices in 10 US cities provide residents with both the structure and flexibility needed to deeply engage with the actors and institutions in the territories in which they pursue specific creative projects that bring fresh perspectives to today\u2019s most pressing global issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rooted in a longstanding tradition of French American cultural dialogue, Villa Albertine reinvents the residency as a platform for contemporary creation, transatlantic collaborations, and people-to-people dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From (LA)Horde\u2019s deep dive into Los Angeles\u2019 jumpstyle scene to Mathieu Pradat\u2019s immersive storytelling installation at the Museum of Science in Boston, this booklet highlights the tangible outcomes and success stories of Villa Albertine\u2019s residents\u2014showcasing the program\u2019s lasting impact and meaningful contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Scroll down to discover and download the full booklet!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s next for Villa Albertine&#8217;s residency program? Learn more about our new cohort of 2026 residents <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/discover-villa-albertines-2026-residents\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Stories-by-Shaped-by-Villa-Albertine-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Stories by Shaped by Villa Albertine.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3ac7e1db-89ae-43b5-94ae-b6e7a60ac1bd\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Stories-by-Shaped-by-Villa-Albertine-.pdf\">Stories by Shaped by Villa Albertine<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Stories-by-Shaped-by-Villa-Albertine-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3ac7e1db-89ae-43b5-94ae-b6e7a60ac1bd\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Acknowledgements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villa Albertine\u2019s residencies have been made possible, in partnership with Albertine Foundation, through the leadership support of Societe Generale Corporate Foundation, with the generous contributions of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, the Recanati-Kaplan Foundation, Ardian, AXA, the ENGIE Corporate Foundation, the Florence Gould Endowment for Literary Exchange, the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts, AWARE, ADIAF, Marfret and the Fonds de Dotation Banque Transatlantique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also wish to warmly acknowledge several partners whose past support contributed significantly to the success of our residency programs, and who, in many cases, continue to support Villa Albertine through other initiatives: the Ford Foundation, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Art Explora Foundation, the Centre national du cin\u00e9ma et de l&#8217;image anim\u00e9e (CNC), UniFrance, the FrenchAmerican Cultural Society, Diptyque, and the Fondation Louis Roederer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our heartfelt thanks goes out to our individual supporters as well, whose trust and generosity continue to shape Villa Albertine\u2019s mission: Daphne Recanati-Kaplan and Thomas S. Kaplan, Marie-Jos\u00e9e and Henry Kravis, B\u00e9atrice Stern, Fidji Simo, Sana Sabbagh, Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard, Stephan Haimo and Veronica Bulgari, Michel David-Weill, remembered with deep gratitude, and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne David-Weill, Claude Wasserstein and Mamadou Abou and Catherine Sarr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4450831,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[234,229,231,219,382,518,228,232,410,365,373,213,236,230,215,554,227,366,233,406,218],"app_city_tax":[235,221,214,223,222,220,216,224,217,225,226],"app_professional_category":[258,260,253,256,259,251,255],"app_professional_content_type":[254],"class_list":["post-4347145","app_professional","type-app_professional","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-all-disciplines","app_discipline-architecture","app_discipline-audiovisual","app_discipline-cinema","app_discipline-city-cite","app_discipline-classical-music","app_discipline-comics","app_discipline-craft-design","app_discipline-family-program","app_discipline-gastronomie-2","app_discipline-landscaping","app_discipline-literature","app_discipline-museums","app_discipline-music","app_discipline-new-media","app_discipline-open-house","app_discipline-performing-arts","app_discipline-poetry","app_discipline-social-sciences-and-humanities","app_discipline-sport","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-all-cities","app_city_tax-atl","app_city_tax-bos","app_city_tax-chi","app_city_tax-hou","app_city_tax-la","app_city_tax-mia","app_city_tax-nola","app_city_tax-nyc","app_city_tax-sf","app_city_tax-dc","app_professional_category-art-design","app_professional_category-books-ideas","app_professional_category-film-tv","app_professional_category-museums-heritage","app_professional_category-music","app_professional_category-new-media","app_professional_category-performing-arts","app_professional_content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From Then to Now: Resident Success Stories Over Five Years - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/residents-stories-throughout-the-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Then to Now: Resident Success Stories Over Five Years - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Created in 2021, Villa Albertine offers one-of-a-kind exploratory residencies across the United States. 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