Deadline: 26-Apr-21
Are you an artist working collaboratively with a community? Are you an artist or community group with an interest in working on a collaborative, socially engaged project? If yes, then apply for this Artist in the Community Scheme.
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects. The AIC Scheme also offers an annual bursary, as well as residencies and a summer school.
The aim of the AIC scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists. It is essential that consultation take place between the artist and the community, so that both parties are involved in deciding on the nature of the project’s realisation. Group ownership of the art should be maintained at every stage.
Award Information
- Research and Development Award (without mentoring): The AIC Scheme Research & Development award is open to artists who wish to research and develop a project in a community context. The maximum award is €2,500. The time frame should be no longer than 6 months.
- Research and Development Award (with Mentoring): The Research & Development Award with Mentoring is open to artists who wish to develop a community based project and who have identified an artist mentor to work with. The maximum award is €3,500, of which €1,000 is specifically to engage a mentor for the artist. The maximum timeframe is 6 months.
- Recent Graduate Research and Development Award (with Mentoring): Recent Graduate artists are defined as those of any age, who have graduated from an undergraduate degree programme in the arts in the past three years and are interested in developing or exploring, or are establishing a professional career in collaborative arts practice. This award specifically targets emerging artists / practitioners who have completed their undergraduate degree and who are not in postgraduate studies at the time of the award. The maximum award is €3,750 of which a maximum of €1,250 is specifically to cover the cost of engaging a mentor. The time frame should be no longer than 6 months.
- Project Realisation Award: The Project Realisation award is open to communities of interest or place (or their representative organisations), planning a project with an artist of between 8 and 12 months duration with a maximum award of €15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The AIC scheme is open to artists from any of the following artform disciplines: architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts.
For more information, visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Artist-in-the-community-scheme/