Deadline: 3-Feb-22
The Arts Council is inviting nominations for the Arts Participation 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 Arts Participation Bursary Award is intended 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, including critical reflection and evaluation
- 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 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 award emphasises the value and benefit to an artist’s development derived from an extended process of engagement with their practice, and seeks to provide artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage deeply with their practice.
Priorities
The objective of the Arts Participation Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts-participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
The award is for individual professional artists who:
- Have a track record of working collaboratively with individuals and groups of non-arts professionals in the making and interpreting of artwork
- Work in any of the following contexts: health, disability, cultural diversity, creative ageing, community development, other communities of place and/or interest
- Demonstrate clear artistic vision and commitment to artistic outcomes alongside any other goals – e.g. in areas such as health, disability, community development, etc.
- Consider and prioritise quality of engagement in the research, development, planning, making, presentation and evaluation of work (as relevant to proposal).
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 artforms and at all stages in their professional careers. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Have a track record in the area of participatory and collaborative arts practice
- Be a professional practising artist – 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
- 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.
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/Arts-participation-bursary-award/