I hope you are having a glorious spring. Some exciting opportunities in this newsletter for those looking for a new beginning or a change of speed heading towards the equinox.

We have recently launched the Open Call for the Fall ART Program, which will run from September 28th - December 20th 2026.

Deadline for applications is 30th of April, so if you can, please do share this with friends.

LungA School is hiring! We are looking for an Operations Manager from September. See the link for job description, or please do get in touch if you have any questions.

If you or someone you know if looking to join us then please check it out. Icelandic speakers only. Deadline 18 May.

Our friends at Ytre kunstfagskole, Norway, have an open call for an Artist in Residence opportunity for two early career artists, in collaboration with Aggregat kunstnerfellesskap, in Ålesund, for the summer of 2026.

They welcome applications from all Nordic countries, but the application deadline is imminent: 20 April, so be fast!

Further information and the application in this link:

We are already missing our Winter/Spring ART school, designed by Þórir, Lotte, Mariana and Lasse.. They left us with some beautiful memories, a hungry chair, a fishbowl, some great radio, and a lot of emojis and birthday cakes and of course visits from Mahzaib Baloch, Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, Þórður Hans Baldursson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Aðalheiður Eysteinsdóttir, Sara-Vide Ericsson and Halldóra Kristín Lárusdóttir.

As always we’ve found ourselves in and out of the school, delivering exhibitions, workshops and other collaborations. Some of these include…

The LungA Radio School was commissioned by the ICRN to produce an article, and you can listen, read and write into it here:

Fresh from running the last programme, Þórir is on residency at Mothership NYC in New York. Mariana is currently on an artist residency in Madrid with the Arte por venir programme, but has just been in Tallinn, Estonia, delivering a workshop with Lasse in and at distance with Seyðisfjörður Community Radio; a proposition to think about exhibition-making and making-exhibition over the radio. It is archived here, along with the reader:

Also I’m writing this from the lounge of the Føroya Fólkaháskuli, the Folk Highschool of the Faroe Islands, where Heiðdís and I have been running workshops with participants here, as well as putting on an exhibition called If you make a motor turn in reverse, you do not break it: you build a refrigerator, work by LungA School’s Winter Spring ART Program. This exchange was kindly supported by FDIS (Fondet for Dansk-Islandsk Samarbejde), and hopefully the start of new connections and projects.

And lastly, just before sending this email, Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, one of the artists-in-residence on the Winter/Spring Program, was just on RÚV talking about her time at the school. Listen to her here 30m30s in:

As always I am usually in the school office from Monday – Friday, but you can also contact us by email, with our addresses all visible our contact page, below, but if in doubt of who to ask, drop me an email on [email protected] or if you prefer to call, you can reach us on (+354) 547 5477. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have something you want to discuss!

Please do share our open call.

All the best for now,

Mark

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