Deadline: 22-Jun-23
The Arts Council is seeking applications for the Street Arts and Spectacle Bursary Award to support Professional Artists at any stage of their career to develop their art practice.
It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
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 and arts practitioners with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their arts practice.
Objectives
The objective of the Street Arts & Spectacle Bursary Award is to support the professional development of artists and arts practitioners 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 above activities
Strategic Priorities
The Arts Council has identified the following as a strategic priority for support through this award:
- Applicants who demonstrate a clear articulation of artistic aims and rationale for undertaking a period of creative reflection
- Applications from emerging artists and arts practitioners who wish to develop their arts practice through a period of structured mentoring
- Applications that allow professional artists to explore new creative practices within the context of multidisciplinary arts or by working in collaboration with professional artists with a background in 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 and arts practitioners 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 Arts Council would need to be satisfied that the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
- 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 this funding scheme the Arts Council particularly welcomes applications that are representative of the diversity of Irish society, including but not limited to any of the characteristics outlined above, and/or initiatives that deliver equitable opportunities or outcomes for those involved.
Ineligible
People 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.