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ICA•RDI Artist-in-residence
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Home base for ICARDI - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada - Bird's Eye View
ICA•RDI Proposition - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia will prioritize and fast-track IMMIGRATION for international contemporary artists.  Lunenburg steps forward to become the first Nova Scotia community to participate in a provincial plan to negotiate an agreement with the federal government to allow 10,000 to 15,000 immigrants per annum over 10 years to come to Nova Scotia with the specific intent of repopulating our rural and small-town areas. - as per Nova Scotia Commission on Building Our New Economy (Ivany Commission on Nova Scotia’s Economic Future) February 2014 -

Lunenburg’s historic fishing and shipping industries connected the town to other world ports through international trade routes and by virtue of its position as safe port of destination, Lunenburg has a historical connection to the “international” going back to the 1750’s.

Agency: ICA•RDI International Zone is a proposal for a section of the Lunenburg waterfront to be given special status.  For the area to be designated by the town as an economic development zone, a specially zoned area, an industrial zone, a free trade zone (e.g. customs: where artists can bring in and ship out work they are developing easily), a “UNESCO zone”, a designated zone that has a focus or mandate to attract and provide office, studio, and presentation spaces for internationally based arts and cultural organizations that are attracted to the town because of this status.  To cluster together arts & cultural organizations which reach out to connect Lunenburg with the world (e.g. the Picton Castle’s world excursions, multidisciplinary international art festivals, residences, schools for visual art, media art, theatre, music, etc.), organizations that promote international artistic cultural freedom and exchange such as ICA•RDI.  By using United Nations flags, flags of different nations (related to the international artists-in-residence) and unique international banners to define this area, it will have a distinctive visual appearance, defining a unique International Zone on the Lunenburg waterfront, as a special destination place in Lunenburg for the community and for our guests and visitors.




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Emily T. Jones, residency Jan. 2014
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ICA•RDI Residency - Flags, summer 2012
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ICA•RDI Residency - Pirate Ladders (Triptych), summer 2013

ICA•RDI Artist-in-residency, summer 2017
Work the ICA•RDI claim - Artists As Gold Diggers - south shore of Nova Scotia next summer, if interested write ICA•RDI, Box 99, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0J 2C0 for more information
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Artists As Gold Diggers
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Dick Averns, The Armchair Terrorist, residency Feb. 2014
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Dick Averns, The Armchair Terrorist, residency Feb. 2014
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Dick Averns, The Armchair Terrorist, residency Feb. 2014













http://www.novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/pubs/is/is13.pdf
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ICA•RDI Residency - Summer 2017
Artist As Gold Diggers residency continues, plus ICA•RDI Levitation Invitation Master Classes - last weekend in August Crescent Beach Nova Scotia
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see "Idea Art Seminars" page)


Winter/Spring 2017 - ICA•RDI Residence - Blue Flag of Optimism
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ICA•RDI - UNESCO Status of the Artist Advocate
ICA•RDI Residence - South Shore Nova Scotia, Canada

January 2017 - ICA•RDI gives new meaning to the 'solid blue flag' - Optimism - which from now on will fly from the top of the ICA•RDI Residence flagpol
e. ICA•RDI Residence will continue to fly the UN flag at half-mast in solidarity as advocate for the promotion, presentation and distribution of international current art research & development.
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