Partners

Villa Albertine is an institution of the French Embassy in the United States, supported by the French government and Albertine Foundation. Villa Albertine’s mission is to strengthen ties between the United States, France and the French-speaking world through culture and education.  

In the arts and culture sphere, we encourage collaboration among French and US-based organizations and provide creators, thought leaders, and professionals with customized residencies, immersive networking experiences, grants, and connections to audiences so they can explore and share new insights into society’s pressing issues. 

In the field of education, we craft projects and programs aimed at making French language and culture accessible to young US-based audiences, expand opportunities for students to study and complete internships in France, and support partnerships between French and American higher education and research institutions.   

Villa Albertine is present in 10 major US cities –– Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Washington, DC –– and publishes an annual magazine, States. It is headquartered in New York’s historic Payne Whitney mansion, home to Albertine, our bookshop and nexus for French-American intellectual exchange. 

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The Humanities Research Center (HRC) in the School of Humanities is an internationally recognized hub for fostering innovative intellectual inquiry in the humanities and the arts at Rice.

Albertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French American relations through innovative cultural and educational programs.   

In close partnership with Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, Albertine Foundation administers grant programs across diverse creative disciplines including visual and performing arts; cinema; and literature, while also supporting exploratory residencies for creative professionals and thinkers across the United States. Albertine Foundation also contributes to promoting French language learning in the United States and funds new opportunities for students, professors, and researchers in the spheres of secondary and higher education.  

Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation by Internal Revenue Service determination. Contributions from corporate, foundation, and individuals are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.  

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The Institut français is responsible for France’s international cultural program. Supervised by both the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and by the Ministry of Culture, it promotes French culture abroad through cultural exchange initiatives. Operating in a space where the arts, intellectual exchange, cultural and social innovation, and linguistic partnerships interact and intersect, it is also responsible for promoting the French language and the sharing of works, artists, and ideas all over the world. The Institut français is one of Villa Albertine’s main French partners.

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The Foundation’s work has included the underwriting of public spaces. This includes being the largest supporter of Washington’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the principal donor for the Emmett Till exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a major donor to New York’s Statue of Liberty Museum and to Washington’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and an early donor to Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center, its latest effort after decades of assistance on Chicago’s South Side.

In connection to French culture and history, it has long supported the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and has only accelerated this work since the 2019 fire; the Louvre Endowment; and education on Holocaust and Deportation scholarship including the 1988 Academy Award-winning documentary, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.

The Texan-French Alliance for the Arts (TFAA) is a 501c(3) non-profit organization devoted to bridging cultures, communities, and art. It was founded in 2005 by former Consul General of France and a group of enthusiastic Francophile foundations, corporations, individuals. It is supported by French and American corporations, foundations, private donors, as well as the Consulate of France in Houston.

ENGIE is an energy company that focuses on long-term, efficient, carbon-reducing solutions. ENGIE meets customers’ needs through with renewable and low-carbon energy solutions, while creating jobs, economic opportunities, and trusted customer and community partnerships along the way.

The Québec Government Office in Houston promotes Québec’s interests in the areas of business, investment, government institutions, education, culture, the advancement of the French language and the Francophonie.  The Office carries out its mandate in the South Central United States, which includes four states: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

With the generous support of Sallymoon BENTZ.

The Awty International School is Houston’s premier international school, serving students from PK3 to 12th grade. Awty offers students a rigorous path to graduating with either the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma or the French Baccalauréat (FB) Diploma. Awty is the only school in Houston to be fully accredited by the French Ministry of Education.

TV5MONDE is the global French language entertainment network showcasing premium films and series, lifestyle programs, news, documentaries, and premium sports coverage from across the world. As the number one broadcaster of French films and TV in the USA, we broadcast without commercial interruptions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and reach 1.5 million viewers nationwide!

Designer of French Gastronomic hors d’oeuvres and petits fours (more information).