Deadline: 9-Feb-23
The Arts Council is accepting nominations for 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 and Priorities of the Award
- The objective of the Arts Participation Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their practice in the area of participatory, collaborative, community and/or socially engaged arts.
- The 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.
Funding 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 practicing 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.
Ineligible
- People who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses).
- Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study
- Individuals seeking support towards work undertaken as part of a formal course of study
- Individuals seeking support towards the costs of undertaking an internship
- They cannot accept applications from those employed or contracted on a fulltime basis by an arts organisation funded through Arts Council programmes or through direct state subsidy or by a commercial arts entity
- Aosdána members in receipt of a cnuas.
For more information, visit Arts Council.