Deadline: 24-Jul-25
The Traditional Arts Project Award supports specific artistic projects in traditional arts.
It focuses on enabling individual artists and organisations to bring their ideas to fruition and create excellent artistic work.
Strands
- There are two strands to the award.
- Strand 1: Small & Medium Scale
- The purpose of Strand 1 is to support one-off or short-term projects that are led by the traditional arts but can involve collaboration with other artforms. Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate:
- Attention to artistic quality
- Creativity
- Significant benefit to the traditional-arts community.
- The purpose of Strand 1 is to support one-off or short-term projects that are led by the traditional arts but can involve collaboration with other artforms. Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate:
- Strand 2: Large Scale
- The purpose of Strand 2 is to support:
- Ambitious and high-quality projects, including those that have the potential to make a significant and lasting impact on the traditional-arts landscape
- Ambitious and large-scale initiatives led by artists with a demonstrable track record in professional traditional-arts practice that specifically focus on producing a work, event or project for a sizeable audience
- Projects that involve highly creative performances of a broad repertoire and/or working with expert practitioners
- Artists who engage in devised or collaborative creative processes.
- The purpose of Strand 2 is to support:
- Strand 1: Small & Medium Scale
Funding Information
- Strand 1: Small & Medium Scale
- 20,000
- Strand 2: Large Scale
- 80,000
Who can apply?
- The award is open to professional artists, groups of artists and organisations working in the traditional arts who are resident or based in Republic of Ireland.
- They may accept applications from applicants who are not resident in the Republic of Ireland.
Who cannot apply?
- Applicants who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Organisations currently in receipt of funding under the following Arts Council programmes: Strategic Funding, Arts Centre Funding, Partnership Funding though the involvement of such organisations as partners is welcome
- Organisations or individuals in receipt of 2026 Arts Grant Funding
- Council of National Cultural Institutions (or their Council members) directly funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
For more information, visit The Arts Council.