Deadline: 23-Sep-21
Applications are now open for Artists and Arts Organisations to develop and shift their practice and profile work on a national scale, creating high-profile arts central to people’s lives.
Purpose
The purpose of the award is to support projects which:
- Are led by the vision of the artist(s) or develop the ambition of the artist(s)
- Are brave in the pursuit of creative risk-taking
- Encourage collaboration between artforms and art-practice areas (i.e. cross artform, interdisciplinary or combined-arts practice)
- Extend the reach and impact of a project, with a fresh and dynamic approach to public engagement; in this context, public engagement may refer to participants and/or audiences
- Demonstrate effective project partnerships, planning and project management.
- Demonstrate a commitment to a research-and-development phase in project planning
- Encourage and enable diversity and inclusivity in the arts.
- Expand new territories of arts practice
- Include high-profile international dimensions and collaborators in terms of public visibility and resource-based partnerships
Objective: To support artists to create public-facing new work of ambition and collaboration, and to incentivise experimentation in a range of artistic disciplines.
Priorities
Priority will be given to projects that:
- Expand new territories of arts practice
- Include high-profile international dimensions and collaborators in terms of public visibility and resource-based partnerships
Funding Information
Amount: €400,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open only to applicants who were successfully shortlisted in Open Call 2022 Phase 1 and have been directed to apply to Phase 2.
- As part of its Equality, Human Rights & Diversity policy, the Arts Council is committed to offering equality of access, opportunity and outcomes for all potential applicants, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background. 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, and/or initiatives that deliver equitable opportunities or outcomes for those involved.
For more information, visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Open-Call/