Applications for Spring 2026 will open in Fall 2025.

LESArtists is a residency that creates space for artists to find inspiration, develop their craft, build community and connect with the natural landscape and culture of Italy.

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  • Clara-Lane Lens

    RESIDENT ARTIST 2025

    Clara-Lane Lens is a Belgian painter living and working between Brussels and Berlin. She is known for her emotionally charged oil portraits, exploring identity, vulnerability and intimacy. Her work exists at the intersection of the personal and the universal, often raising profound questions about human emotions and relationships. Clara-Lane describes her work as an attempt to reveal the invisible layers of her subjects, while leaving room for the viewer’s interpretation.

  • Aimee France

    RESIDENT ARTIST 2025

    Aimee France is a self taught baker based in Brooklyn, New York. She owns a small business crafting one of a kind seasonally focused cakes out of her apartment kitchen.

  • Jess Tran

    RESIDENT ARTIST 2024

    Jess is a first-generation Chinese/Vietnamese-Australian photographer and writer living in Brooklyn. Jess’s work explores the humanity and intersection between dreams and legacies.

  • Michele Mirisola

    RESIDENT ARTIST 2023

    Michele Mirisola was born and raised in New York, NY. She studied studio arts at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Her work, created under the name Chell Fish, has been featured in The New York Times, T List, The Cut, Service95, and Cool Stuff.