Calls for proposals
An open call for a collaborative creation residency is currently underway.
Our call for the Regular programming, the Residency program, the Mentorship program and the Déblocages are now closed.
Call to artists
Collaborative Creation Residency at Ferme Jeunes au Travail
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Verticale – centre d’artistes (VCA) invite un·e artiste à prendre part à une résidence de création à la Ferme Jeunes au Travail, à Laval, afin de développer un projet en collaboration avec les participant·es de la cohorte 2027 de l’organisme. L’œuvre issue de cette démarche sera présentée à l’automne 2027 dans la vitrine du nouvel espace d’exposition de VCA, au Centre de création artistique professionnelle Lysane-Gendron (CCAPLG), dans le cadre de sa programmation inaugurale.
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Période de réalisation du projet : mars à septembre 2027
Volets du projet :
- Résidence et immersion dans le milieu
- Médiation culturelle et création collaborative
- Diffusion
La dimension collaborative du projet s’accompagne d’une recherche sur la forme et sur la manière dont une expérience de collaboration peut se traduire dans une œuvre. Une attention particulière sera portée à la façon dont les contributions, les échanges et les expériences issus du processus sont transformés, rendus visibles ou mis en relation dans la proposition finale. Cette recherche se poursuivra en dialogue avec les participant·es et l’équipe de Verticale, notamment autour de la mise en forme, de la mise en espace et de la médiation de l’œuvre lors de sa présentation dans la vitrine du nouvel espace de Verticale.
Date limite pour soumettre un dossier : 22 novembre 2026
Call to artists
Déblocages
Déblocages, a self-directed series of gatherings, brings together artists and their guests to discuss issues arising in their artistic practice with the Centre community.
Each event is organized around a specific issue proposed by the host. The gathering provides a pretext to share experiences and hash out possible solutions collectively.
Presentation period: February, March 2025.
The gatherings could be done in your studio, online, in a site-specific location in Laval, or in the multipurpose studio at Verticale’s.
VCA offers:
- Membership or renewals fees (as active member)
- Support for gathering coordination, dissemination, and promotion
- Presentation fees for the artist hosting the gathering
- Presentation fees for the guest collaborator
- Assistance with production costs
To submit a proposition:
- Send a email to info@verticale.ca including
- Artist statement
- Up-to-date CV
- Specific issue proposed work-on in déblocage
- Ideas for guest collaborators
- Ideas for gathering formats
- Visual documentation (website or selection)
Deadline — February 2, 2025
This call is now closed.
Regular programming 2023—25
Trajectory, accommodation, and genius loci
—Whereas the miniature represents closure, interiority, the domestic and the overly cultural, the gigantic represents infinity, exteriority, the public, and the overly natural.[1]
Verticale—centre d’artistes (VCA) invites artists and collectives to submit proposals for in situ art projects that explore atypical sites by addressing the trajectories, transitional processes, and challenges of occupying space at various scales. The areas we enter and that enter us—as inhabited, stolen, occupied, forgotten, abandoned, unplanned, transformed, dreamt up, configured, and (re)activated—should also be considered, in all of their complexity.
Presentation period: between September 2023 and August 2025
VCA presents works off-site. The centre will accept proposals that take into account the physical and/or social space of dissemination, and that includes a reflection on sites, publics and/or contexts. VCA will assist with the artists’ surveying process and integration of their work so that the dissemination setting is appropriate and relevant to each individual project and art practice.
Deadline to submit a proposal: December 1st, 2022
This call is now closed.
Call to artists and writers
Residency in the Archives
This one-time program will support two artists and two writers in the creation of art projects and texts based on the processing of Verticale — centre d’artistes’ (VCA) archival documents.
The goal of this residency program is to expose artists and writers to the processing of VCA’s archives, currently underway. Working alongside archivists, the selected participants will be able to consult and discover the contents of these documents.
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Who can apply
This program seeks to promote VCA members and Laval-based artists in a non-exclusive manner. Members of our broader community who have taken part in VCA’s activities (through exhibitions, as board members, etc.) will also be considered.
Deadline to submit a proposal: December 1st, 2022
Schedule
Planning meetings: March and April 2023
Residency period: between May and June 2023
Public discussions: spring, summer, and fall 2023
Please refer to the complete call for submission.
This call is now closed.
Call to emerging artists
Mentorship Program
This annual program is aimed at assisting an emerging artist in the exploration and development of their practice through peer support, namely with a professional artist who will take on a mentorship role.
The artist-mentee must submit a research and creation project that will address one or more aspects they have identified as obstacles to the advancement of their practice and/or career. The program does not necessarily involve the public presentation of an artwork. The artist will carry out their project within a professional context, with the support of their mentor with whom they will meet on a regular basis for the equivalent of fifteen work days. The project will conclude with a public presentation by the artist and their mentor, where they will discuss the progress of their work.
Presentation period: spring-summer
This program is intended primarily for emerging artists (no age limit) currently living in Laval, who are originally from the region, or who are members of the organisation.