Deadline: 02-Jul-2020
Arts Council is seeking applications for Visual Artists Workspace Scheme to support artists’ workspaces throughout the country to provide the best possible working environment for visual artists and, where feasible, to enable a level of subsidy for the artists working in these spaces.
The Arts Council is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from individuals or groups within culturally diverse communities and from artists with disabilities.
Funding Information
- The scheme will award grants of up to €40,000 towards running costs such as light, heat, rent, artists’ development programmes, administration and/or appropriate salary costs.
- A proportion of support up to a maximum of 20% of the total request may be directed toward essential maintenance and equipment expenditure.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are welcome from the following:
- Workspaces dedicated to the support of professional visual artists
- Workspaces that accommodate at least four professional visual artists working on site.
- Workspaces proposing to share resources for the benefit of the visual artists working
- Workspaces that have applied to Arts Grant Funding 2021 or intend applying for Project Funding 2021 towards their public activities (e.g. exhibition programming, productions, etc.), and NOT FOR STUDIO SUPPORT
- Workspaces that do not intend to apply for studio support through Arts Council Strategic Funding 2021
- In line with the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty, the Arts Council is committed to ensuring that it takes positive policy measures to promote equality of opportunity for all those living in Ireland, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community. Furthermore, the Arts Council notes the ground of socio-economic background as a further basis for which equality of opportunity must be guaranteed.
- Workspaces must be located in the Republic of Ireland.
For more information, visit Arts Council.
