COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
STAIRCASE LEADING TO THE ATTIC AT CASA REGIS
COLLABORATIONS & EXCHANGES
El Nido’s work extends through a small number of carefully developed relationships — each grounded in dialogue, exchange, and a shared commitment to artistic inquiry.
Through both short-term partnerships and exhibition, performance, and event-based collaborations, these connections create bridges between Los Angeles and broader creative communities beyond, allowing ideas, practices, conversations, and works to move across different contexts in a considered and intentional way.
While exhibitions remain central to the platform, El Nido also hosts staged readings, performances, gatherings, lectures, screenings, concerts, and interdisciplinary events that encourage slower forms of engagement and conversation. Recent programming has included collaborations with HILMA. - through staged readings, as well as the production of intimate musical events such as pianist and composer Anthony Cardella’s concert programming in Northern Italy.
Alongside exhibitions and research-driven programming, El Nido also supports a select number of online and in-person courses focused on writing, literature, poetry, close reading, and contemplative learning practices. These ongoing exchanges further expand the platform’s engagement with language, thought, atmosphere, and creative inquiry — cultivating spaces where conversation, reflection, and interdisciplinary thinking can unfold organically over time.
VILLA CERNIGLIARO, BIELLA, ITALY
FROM LOS ANGELES TO THE ITALIAN ALPS
EL NIDO JOINS THE MA/ARTE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
(2025-2028 BIENNIUM)
EL NIDO IS PARTNERING WITH ZERO GRAVITÀ VILLA CERNIGLIARO (ITALY) FOR THE 2026-2027 / 2027 - 2028 BIENNIUM
EL NIDO HAS BEEN SELECTED AS A KEY "ARTISTIC OUTPOST" IN A NEW GLOBAL NETWORK DEDICATED TO INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, ENVIRONMENTAL ART, AND FEMALE LEADERSHIP. THIS COLLABORATION, CENTERED AROUND THE 4TH EDITION OF THE MA/DONNE PROJECT, AIMS TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN ISOLATED CREATIVE SANCTUARIES AND THE GLOBAL ART SCENE.
THIS NETWORK REDEFINES "INTERNATIONALIZATION" FROM THE BOTTOM UP. INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO MAJOR COMMERCIAL HUBS, WE ARE CONNECTING INDEPENDENT, FEMALE-LED SPACES—OUR ARTISTIC OUTPOSTS—THAT PRIORITIZE CREATIVE "CARE" OVER MASS CONSUMPTION.
THROUGH THE MA/DONNE PROJECT, EL NIDO COMMUNITY WILL ENGAGE IN A TWO-YEAR CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH THE ITALIAN ALPS, FOCUSING ON SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL DIALOGUE, AND THE RESILIENCE OF INDEPENDENT ART SPACES. WE ARE BUILDING A BRIDGE WHERE THE "NEST" OF LOS ANGELES MEETS THE "HISTORICAL GRAVITY" OF ITALY
PARTICIPATION
2025 — THIRD EDITION, MA/DONNE ARTE
VICTORIA CHAPMAN — SOUNDSCAPE
2026 — FOURTH EDITION, MA/DONNE ARTE
CO-CURATORS: CHICCA BENEDETTO, VICTORIA CHAPMAN, ANDREA GARDINI, CRISTINA GHETTI, CATERINA GUALCO, MIROSLAVA HÀJEK, ANGELO PANTALEO, MARIA ROSA PIVIDORI, GERARDO ROSATO, LORENA SMANIOTTO, LUCA TAGLIETTI, ROSY TOGACI GAUDIANO.
2026 — FOURTH EDITION, MA/DONNE ARTE
BETHAN DEAR — PERFORMANCE ARTIST, DIRECTOR, WRITER (VIDEO PERFORMANCE)
Casa Regis: center for culture and contemporary art, Italy
COLLABORATION WITH CASA REGIS: CENTER FOR CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART, ITALY
featuring a TRAVELING EXHIBITION:
PHOTOGRAPHY INTO SCULPTURE - AN HOMAGE AND AN UPDATE CURATED BY L MIKELLE STANDBRIDGE
Dates: OCTOBER 2025 - WINTER 2026: CASA REGIS: CENTER FOR CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART, MOSSO, ITALY
El Nido by vc projects, los angeles
On display at el nido by vc Projects- DATES: APRIL 4 - June 6, 2026 - EL NIDO - LOS ANGELES
FEATURING: BENNIE FLORES ANSELL, ROBERTA TOSCANO, FABIOLA UBANI, OONA HYLAND
DAWN SURRATT, SILVIA GAFFURINI, L. MIKELLE STANDBRIDGE, AND OLGA CALDAS
CURATED BY L. MIKELLE STANDBRIDGE | STAGED BY VICTORIA CHAPMAN FOR EL NIDO, los angeles
the traveling group exhibition, photography into sculpture - an homage and an update, curated by l. mikelle standbridge
continues at immix gallery, paris, france, opening reception: September 17 - october 17, 2026
Villa Magnani | Campiglia Cervo, Italy
Collaboration with El Nido & Villa Emma
As part of our ongoing collaboration with Villa Emma and Casa Regis, we are pleased to include Villa Magnani as a site-specific extension. During the summer retreat, participating artists are invited to spend time on the estate, engaging the landscape through observation, research, and creative practice across disciplines.
Located in Campiglia Cervo in Northern Italy, Villa Magnani is a nineteenth-century park shaped by the legacy of landscape architects Marcellino and Giuseppe Roda. Its grounds—marked by winding paths, grottos, and mature trees—offer a contemplative environment for artistic inquiry.
july 25, 2026 at 4 pm | CONCERT and art exhibition
FEATURING ANTHONY CARDELLA, PERFORMING CHOPIN AND NEW WORKS FROM THE VILLA’S HISTORICal PIANO also, on display, linda zambolin and francesco tori, once upon a time - incarnation of place, hand-painted and waxed photographs
Linda Zambolin and Francesco Tori, once upon a time - incarnation of place, hand-painted and waxed photographs
anthony cardella, concert pianist and composer based in los angeles
ON JUNE 6, 2026, EL NIDO BY VC PROJECTS ALONG WITH HILMA. WILL PRESENT A STAGED READING OF NICK SILVER CAN’T SLEEP BY JANICE KERBEL, DIRECTED BY RHIAN REES.
THE READING WILL BE PRESENTED BY HILMA., A NEWLY FORMED THEATRE COMPANY BASED BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND TORONTO, WHOSE WORK EXPLORES CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE, LANGUAGE, ATMOSPHERE, AND EXPERIMENTAL FORMS OF STORYTELLING.
PRESENTED WITHIN THE INTIMATE SETTING OF EL NIDO, THE EVENING CONTINUES THE SPACE’S ONGOING INTEREST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE AND THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN VISUAL ART, THEATRE, LITERATURE, AND LIVE PERFORMANCE.
ARTIST RETREATS
VILLA EMMA | ARTIST RETREAT | NORTHERN ITALY
Originally designed to host artists engaged with Casa Regis: Center for Culture and Contemporary Art, Villa Emma is a treasure in its own right.
Set within the quiet beauty of Valle Cervo—“Deer Valley”—the villa’s historic architecture and surrounding landscape create an immediate sense of presence and inspiration.
From the moment I arrived, I felt it: a place that both holds you and invites something new to emerge within your creative practice.
The Hide | Artist Retreat | cotswolds, England
Just on the outskirts of the Gloucestershire town of Nailsworth sits The Hide, nestled within the Cotswolds AONB.
This is no ordinary getaway. It offers a quiet shift in pace for those seeking a change of scene, while also serving as an ideal setting for artists and creatives in search of inspiration.
ONLINE COURSES
summer 2026 online
Bookwomen part I and part II: Medieval Women “Lewd, Feeble & Frail”
CLOSE READING with stacie vos | ENCLOSURE ACADEMY
meet online - part I - Tuesdays from June 2 — mid july | part II - Tuesdays from august 4, 2026
This portion of the course explores women readers, writers, owners, and makers of books during the medieval period, with an emphasis on England and English translations of texts from other languages.
Figures discussed include both poetic creations and historical individuals — from the Wife of Bath, Margaret Beaufort, Jane Scrope, Juliana Berners, and Margery Kempe to Julian of Norwich, Margaret Paston, Hroswitha of Gandersheim, and Christine de Pizan.
Through excerpts, manuscripts, and medieval objects, the course investigates what it meant to be a woman reader in the Middle Ages.
enrollment Contact: stacie.vos@aya.yale.edu
biography: Stacie Vos is the founder and director of the Enclosure Group, which first formed in the spring of 2020 when Vos called together a group of visual artists, writers, and scholars who were exploring various definitions and images of enclosure—from the anchoress’s cell and the enclosed rural lands of England—to the camera, the projection booth, and the confessional—in their work.
Vos’s own work on enclosure began with her dissertation, completed in 2021, called Englishing the Virgin: Enclosure, Dissemination, and the Early English Book. The research group became a vital community during the writing of this project, which was all done during the lockdown period caused by the global pandemic that began in the late months of 2019.
Vos is now at work on a book on Hope Emily Allen and other pioneering female medievalists.
Vos is committed to fusing creative, archival and social work with her scholarship and teaching of English and Writing. She sees the Enclosure Group as a means for public outreach, interdisciplinary humanistic research, and community formation across creative, academic, and social spheres that might not otherwise intersect.
A Premodern Writing Workshop with Stacie Vos | enclosure academy
This course will introduce participants to premodern forms and habits of writing such as the keeping of commonplace books, the creation of scribal editions, and the writing of creative autobiographical essays. Reading medieval and early modern manuscripts and essay collections from Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne and Virginia Woolf, students will come away from the course with new models for developing and organizing thoughts by hand.
dates:
Europe/East Coast US: Saturdays the 11th and 18th of July at 2 pm-5pm BST/9-NOON EST
California etc.: Tuesday and Thursday July 14 & 16 - 5 pm-8pm BST/9 am-NOON PST/NOON-3 EST
enrollment Contact: stacie.vos@aya.yale.edu
biography: Stacie Vos is the founder and director of the Enclosure Group, which first formed in the spring of 2020 when Vos called together a group of visual artists, writers, and scholars who were exploring various definitions and images of enclosure—from the anchoress’s cell and the enclosed rural lands of England—to the camera, the projection booth, and the confessional—in their work.
Vos’s own work on enclosure began with her dissertation, completed in 2021, called Englishing the Virgin: Enclosure, Dissemination, and the Early English Book. The research group became a vital community during the writing of this project, which was all done during the lockdown period caused by the global pandemic that began in the late months of 2019.
Vos is now at work on a book on Hope Emily Allen and other pioneering female medievalists.
Vos is committed to fusing creative, archival and social work with her scholarship and teaching of English and Writing. She sees the Enclosure Group as a means for public outreach, interdisciplinary humanistic research, and community formation across creative, academic, and social spheres that might not otherwise intersect.