Our Mission

The Dora Maar Cultural Center, located in the Dora Maar House and Hotel de Tingry in Ménerbes, France, offers artists’ residencies for individuals of exceptional vision to produce enduring works of art, literature, and scholarship. The Center is an arts and ideas organization inspiring its residents, members, and global audiences through its core program of fellowships, as well as exhibitions, lectures, and events, locally and globally. The Dora Maar Cultural Center facilitates transformational experiences in the world of art and ideas by:

Inspiring Creativity and Innovation; Maintaining a Supportive and Nourishing Residency environment; Supporting Historic Preservation and Culture; Fostering Dynamic Engagement and Open Exchange of Ideas; Encouraging Interdisciplinarity; Upholding Diversity and Inclusion; Promoting Regional and International Outreach.

History of dmcc

Since 2007, the ‘Nancy B. Negley Artists Residency Program’, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, has offered residencies of one to two months to mid-career arts and humanities professionals to focus on their areas of expertise. The program was originally directed by Katherine Howe with the support of the Brown Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

In 2020, the Nancy B. Negley Association was created under the aegis of the Fondation Mérimée. Hotel de Tingry (a classified historical monument) was added to the Dora Maar Cultural Center. Both non-profits, the French NBN Association and the American DMCC Foundation work together to achieve the mission.