Deadline: 3-Feb-22
The Arts Council is now accepting entries for Traditional Arts Bursary Award to support professional artists to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
Objectives
The objective of the Traditional Arts Bursary Award is to support the professional development of practising 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 upskilling 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 (Note: this can be no more than 15% of the value of the overall request for support)
- Spend time undertaking a combination of the activities.
The objective of the Traditional Arts Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists in the field of traditional arts to develop their art practice.
The award emphasises the value and benefit to an artist’s development derived from an extended process of engagement with their practice. The award therefore provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their art practice. Potential proposals could be those that support the applicant to:
- Compose a piece of work in the tradition or in collaboration with musicians in other genres
- Choreograph a piece of dance within the tradition or in collaboration with dance artists in other genres
- Explore traditional style and repertoire in the fields of music, song, dance or storytelling, including informal mentorship programmes with established individuals or masters in these areas
- Develop a body of work from the tradition and/or in collaboration with other artforms.
Award Information
- The maximum amount that may be awarded to each successful applicant is: €20,000
- The minimum that can be applied for is €5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional 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.
The Arts Council particularly welcomes new applicants who represent the diversity of Irish society. They encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Traditional-Arts-Bursary-Award/