Deadline: 30-Jul-20
The Arts Council is inviting applications for the Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award to support individual professional artists working with, and producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms.
The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice.
Objectives and Priorities
The objective of the Bursary Award is to support the professional development of practicing artists by enabling them to do one or more of the following:
- Spend focused time working at their practice
- Spend time researching/thinking about/developing a new idea for future dissemination
- Spend time developing their technical skills in a particular area
- Spend time developing/learning new skills related to their practice or area of interest
- Spend time working with a mentor, or collaborator(s) to develop an idea, or to assist in developing or up-skilling within a particular area of their practice, or an area related to their practice
- Spend time developing an idea in collaboration with a potential production partner(s)
- Undertake a short period of training by way of master classes or other professional training opportunities (whether national or international)
- Purchase a limited amount of equipment and materials to assist with the development of their practice (N.B. this can be no more than 15% of the value of the overall request for support)
- Spend time undertaking a combination of the above activities
The Young People, Children and Education Bursary Award specifically supports the professional development of artists working with, or producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms. Potential proposals could be those that:
- Enable a professional artist with significant experience in her/his artform but with limited experience in developing work with or for young audiences/participants to develop their knowledge and capacity in this area
- Provide an opportunity for an artist to work with a highly qualified and experienced mentor
- Enable a young artist (aged 18–24) who has demonstrated artistic leadership and innovation in her/his artistic endeavours as a young person to develop their professional capacity to engage other young participants or audiences in the arts.
The Arts Council has identified the following as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- Proposals that demonstrate the benefits to the development of the artist’s practice and the potential benefits to children and young people who will be impacted by their work during or following the bursary.
- Proposals that demonstrate how an artist will document, share and disseminate with their peers any findings that emerge from the bursary period.
- Proposals that enable artists to reflect on and develop their practice in partnership with key stakeholders, such as potential audiences, participants, professional colleagues and educators (in and/or out of school). However, such proposals should be developed in a manner that is adaptable should social distancing measures impact on what is possible.
Award Information
The amount awarded to each successful applicant in any given year will be one of the following:
- €15,000
- €10,000
- €5,000
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to artists working in all genres and at all stages in their professional careers. 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 applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same.
- Be professional practising artists. Although they might not earn income continuously or exclusively from their arts practice, applicants must identify themselves, and be recognised by their peers, as professional practising artists.
- 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 socioeconomic background as a further basis for which equality of opportunity must be guaranteed. The Arts Council therefore welcomes applications that are representative of the diversity of Irish society, including but not limited to any of the characteristics.
For more information, visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Young-people,-children,-and-education-bursary-award/