Fine Arts at the Drac Occitanie
The Visual Arts Department contributes to the definition and implementation of the State’s policy on the development and dissemination of contemporary creation in the region.
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Four priorities
- support for the creation
- support for the dissemination of contemporary works
- the acquisition, the 1% artistic and public commissions of works of art: three ways to enrich the heritage
- higher education in the visual arts
Support for the creation
As an observer and actor of artistic vitality in its region, the Visual Arts Department provides the necessary advice, information and support to artists living in Occitania, in order to facilitate their working conditions and professional integration.
It aims to encourage the greatest diversity of forms of expression and support the emerging art scene.
This support can be supplemented by direct financial assistance:
- individual support for the creation of AIC,
- Workshop installation allowance AA (assistance in setting up a workshop or acquiring equipment related to the professional activity.
Or an allocation from the Centre national des arts plastiques CNAP (service du soutien à la création):
- research allocation for project development (in France or abroad),
- exceptional rescue (awarded to artists with severe financial difficulties).
In this case, it is necessary to send a duplicate of the request to the visual arts department of the Drac
Support for the diffusionn of contemporary works
It takes the form of support for the dissemination of contemporary art, in partnership with local authorities.
This aid concerns institutions whose objectives contribute both to support creation and to bring works closer to the public (plastic arts structures):
- contemporary art centres under contract,
- regional contemporary art fund FRAC,
- permanent places of dissemination,
- artist residencies,
- network of associative places ensuring a balanced cultural development of the territory.
In addition, private galleries can make a request for assistance with the first exhibition or assistance with the first catalogue with the CNAP for the first solo exhibition of an artist already engaged in professional life who has not been exhibited in a private gallery for at least five years.
The acquisition, 1% artistic and public commissions for works of art: three ways to enrich heritage
Acquisitions
The enrichment of the heritage in the field of contemporary art is ensured by the contribution of the Drac, in partnership with the regional council, to the constitution of the contemporary collections of the Regional Fund of contemporary art FRAC Montpellier and Toulouse.
1% artistic
The "1% artistic" is a measure that consists in reserving 1% of the amount excluding tax of any public construction for the realization of a work integrated into the architecture. The Decree No. 2005-90 of 4 February 2005, amending the Decree of 29 April 2002, redefines and clarifies the conditions for the award of contracts and establishes two procedures according to the amount of the 1%, either lower or higher than 30,000 € HT, procedure necessarily involving the Drac.
Notices of works made as part of the 1% artistic
- Lycée Irénée-Cros, Pamiers (09). Véronique Barthe, "Conservation/conversation", 2004
- Lycée La Roque, Onet-le-Château (12). Didier Béquillard, Untitled, 2007
- Lycée Saint-Exupéry, Blagnac (31). Basserode, "Kaléïdoscope", 2006
- Lycée Le Garros, Auch (32). Paul Belmondo, "Cérès ou Pomone", 1969
- Lycée Joseph-Saverne, L'Isle Jourdain (32). Emmanuelle Castella and Jean-Dominique Fleury, "The inverted tree", 2010
- Lycée Monnerville, Cahors (46). Louttre B., "Five sculptures in a stone garden", 1972
- Lycée Renée-Billières, Argelès-Gazost (65), Alfred Manessier, "Games in the snow", 1954
- Lycée Fonlabour, Albi (81). Stéphane Calais and Marie-Anne Hervoche, "Le jardin vertical", 2008
- Aucouturier high school, Carmaux (81). Patrick Raynaud, "La Verrerie", 1988
- Lycée Claude-Nougaro, Caussade (82). Didier Marcel, "L'arbre et la clairière", 2008
- Lycée Jean-Baylet, Valence-d'Agen (82). Émilie Prouchet-Dalla-Costa, "En chemin", 2012
- The Breadcrumb. The 1% artistic and the Paul-Sabatier University project
Public procurement
The artistic public commission is a major tool to give as many people as possible access to the art of our time. The State supports public authorities in their order processes, whether they fall within the regulatory framework of the «1% artistic» or in that of voluntary orders, in particular when they are carried out within planning operations or in favour of artistic manifestations in the public space.
Artistic public commissions also provide artists with a tool to carry out projects whose scale, stakes or dimension require unusual means. It thus contributes to the international influence of the French scene.
"L'Homme Lion"
Sculpture-performance by Abraham Poincheval, a public commission for the Musée-forum de l'Aurignacien in Aurignac (2018)
- "The Lion Man", sculpture-performance by Abraham Poincheval, a public commission for the Aurignacian Forum Museum in Aurignac
- The immobile journey of Abraham Poincheval in "The Lion Man"
- In Aurignac, Abraham Poincheval came out of "The Lion Man"
Art in espace public in Aveyron (2014)
A journey of public and private commissions in Aveyron to discover seven works and 150 years of creation.
Stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Cahors (2013)
"Los pès del parpalhòl", Toulouse (2013)
Triangular de Cransac (2011)
Stained glass windows of the cCathedral of Rodez (2010)
Fénautrigues (2010)
Higher education plastic arts
In Occitania, four territorial art schools, Nimes, Montpellier, Toulouse and Tarbes deliver national diplomas (Higher National Diploma of Plastic Expression DNSEP, National Diploma of Plastic Arts DNAP, National Diploma of Arts and Techniques DNAT).
Higher education in the visual arts under the pedagogical supervision of the Ministry of Culture is made up of a network of institutions equally spread over the national territory, two of which are located in Overseas France.
Provided both by artists, theoreticians and cultural professionals engaged in art, higher education in the visual arts is an art education through art operating a permanent dialogue between practice and theory.
Its vocation is to train professionals, artists and creators in the field of visual arts. A distinction is made between higher art schools, which come under the educational supervision of the Ministry of Culture, higher applied arts schools and craft training courses, most often under the Ministry of National Education (for exampleEstienne School and of theEcole Boulle for example).
Today, after being part of the European Higher Education Area and having grouped its institutions, the higher arts education under the Ministry of Culture represents a coherent and dynamic network of 45 institutions, serving the training of artists and visual arts professionals. In support of European programs and specific programs, it particularly encourages its students to international mobility.
Support for research is an essential element of higher education. In our institutions, centered around the gradual development of the student’s project, research opens ways to interact with other fields and an opening impacting the creative process. The curriculum follows from the first cycle the paths of an initiation to research, consolidated over the semesters by workshops and methodology courses. This work is reinforced as the diploma approaches.
Creating partnerships that are often unheard of, artistic research creates a welcome and productive dynamic within the research and innovation community. It also allows the artistic dimension to be taken into account in innovative industrial or entrepreneurial processes (environment, sustainable development, cosmetics...).
Schools under the Ministry of Culture provide higher education, post-baccalaureate. These institutions prepare students for national diplomas or diplomas from schools with bac+3 and bac+5. Studies in higher art schools are courses organized according to the rules of the European Higher Education Area. They are professionally recognized by registration in the national directory of professional certification at level I, the highest. It makes it possible to apply for external and internal competitions of the Capes and Capet as well as for external and internal competitions of the aggregation (subject to the conditions of seniority of service).
The Ministry of Culture also obtained the recognition of diplomas at bac+5 at the degree of master by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The first Master’s degree degrees were awarded in 2012.
The portal site of French higher art schools under pedagogical supervision of the Ministry of Culture allows you to discover the network of higher art schools: www.andea.fr
Aids and procedures Plastic arts
Before submitting an application, applicants are invited to contact the Consultant for Fine Arts to ensure that the project is eligible.
The artists-authors, who exercise an independent activity of creation of literary and dramatic works, musical and choreographic, audiovisual and cinematographic, photographic, graphic and plastic, and software authors must report their activity to the Business Formalities Centre of Urssaf.
For more information
Contacts
Montpellier site
- Catherine Dumon
plastic arts consultant
Tel. 04 67 02 32 16 - Mouna Hachicha
manager
Tel. 05 67 73 20 19
Toulo siteuse
- Marie-Béatrice Angelé
plastic arts consultant
Tel. 05 67 73 20 19 - Mouna Hachicha
manager
Tel. 05 67 73 20 19
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