Deadline: 26-Sep-22
Nominations are now open for the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Award to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists.
Objectives
Proposals should demonstrate a clear description of methodologies for engagement and collaboration that:
- Value the creative contributions of all collaborators while providing opportunities for artistic challenge
- Support the inclusion of multiple voices as part of the project’s identity, and decision-making processes
- Ensure that the artistic quality and the quality of the engagement between artist and collaborators are both considered at all stages (e.g. in the planning, making, presentation and evaluation of work).
- Demonstrate active support and commitment from all collaborators and partners and organisational clarity, including a clear understanding of respective roles and contributions
- Considers how the proposal may generate new social organisation, communication networks, or use-value for the community after the conclusion of the proposed timeline of the project. What trace might it leave behind?
Types of Strands
There are two strands to the scheme:
- The purpose of the Research & Development Award is to support proposals from professional artists who wish to collaborate artistically with non-arts professionals. It is open to artists who wish to research and develop a project in a community context.
- The purpose of the Project Realisation Award is to support proposals from communities of place and/or interest groups (non-arts professionals) who want to collaborate artistically with an artist/s.
What may you apply for?
- Research & Development Awards (without mentoring) – maximum award €2,500. The time frame should be no longer than 6 months
- Research & Development Awards (with mentoring) – maximum award €3,500 of which €1,000 is specifically to engage a mentor for the artist. The time frame should be no longer than 6 months
- Recent Graduate, Research & Development Award (with Mentoring) – maximum award €3,750 of which a maximum of €1,250 is specifically to cover the cost of engaging a mentor. The time frame should be no longer than 6 months Project
- Projects: from 8 months up to 12 months – maximum award €15,000
Eligibility Criteria
The AIC Scheme is open to artists, communities and organisations. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the Arts Council would need to be satisfied that the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
- Recent Graduate, Research & Development Award (with Mentoring) – Recent Graduate artists are defined as those, of any age, who have graduated from an undergraduate degree programme in the arts in the past three years and are interested in developing or exploring or are establishing a professional career in collaborative arts practice. This award specifically targets emerging artists/practitioners who have completed their undergraduate degree and who are not in postgraduate studies at the time of the award.
For more information, visit Create.
For more information, visit https://www.create-ireland.ie/research-and-development-application-round-2-2022/