Deadline: 27-May-21
The Arts Council of Ireland has invited applications from artists under its Arts Grants Funding Programme, with the purpose to ensure that there is a breadth of high-quality arts activity and programmes throughout the country.
It offers flexible support for a fixed period of time, and in so doing responds to the needs of those who are making, presenting and supporting work.
The Arts Council of Ireland is the Irish government agency for developing the arts. They work in partnership with artists, arts organisations, public policy makers and others to build a central place for the arts in Irish life.
Arts Grant Funding is intended to:
- Support more than one distinct arts activity taking place within a fixed period of time, or
- Provide supports or facilities to artists over a fixed period of time.
Objectives of the Programme
The focus of Arts Grant Funding is to deliver outcomes that develop the arts, either through:
- Generating high-quality experiences for the public to engage with the arts, or
- Providing excellent services, resources or facilities that support the work of artists or the arts sector and
- Contributing to the ecology of the arts within your area of practice.
Funding Information
- No upper limit has been set on the amount that can be apply for. However, the Arts Council operates under budgetary constraints and the scheme is very competitive.
- The average grant over the previous three rounds of the programme was c. €58,000.
- All costs must relate directly to the activities within your proposal. The Arts Council will also consider costs specifically relating to the making of work by artists with disabilities.
- In this round of Arts Grant Funding, you can only apply for support for a single funding period: January–December 2022.
- Activities must take place in this funding period.
What kind of activities can be applied for?
Applications can be submitted for the following activities:
- Creation, production (including co-production), and presentation of an artwork or event for the benefit of an audience or particular community,
- Provision of arts experiences involving participants or targeted communities,
- Development and creation of a piece of work for future performance or distribution (e.g. artwork, script, music composition),
- Delivery of activities that support the development of the arts or the work of artists,
- Provision of supports, resources or facilities for artists,
- Research (as part of a wider programme of artform development),
- Development costs (e.g. talent, partnership or audience development),
- Skills development and capacity building.
Who can apply?
Arts Grant Funding is available across all artforms and arts practice areas, and is open to:
- Organisations, including companies limited by guarantee (CLG), designated activity companies (DAC), partnerships, etc.
- Individuals (if two or more people want to make a joint application, one of them must act as the named applicant).
Note: Individuals applying must demonstrate that their proposal involves collaboration and/or partnership that include the delivery of public outcomes or outcomes that benefit other artists.
You cannot apply if you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student or will be during the period for which this funding is offered.
To be eligible to apply, you must be:
- Resident in the Republic of Ireland
- They may consider applications if you are based outside the Republic of Ireland if your proposal benefits the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
- Professional practising artists
- Even though you might not earn income continuously or exclusively from your arts practices, you must identify yourselves and be recognised by your peers as professional practising artists.
For more information, visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Arts-Grant-Funding/