The Arts Council of Ireland: Seeking Applications for Arts Grant Funding Programme

Deadline: 8 March 2018

The Arts Council of Ireland is seeking applications for its Arts Grant Funding that is a new funding programme that they have developed as part of their new funding framework.

This framework is based on the commitments set out in their ten-year strategy, Making Great Art Work. In offering this programme, they want to create opportunities for a wide range of artists and organisations to get grant support from the Arts Council.

Objectives

Arts Grant Funding is intended to:
- support more than one distinct arts activity taking place within a fixed period of time, or
- provide supports or facilities to artists over a fixed period of time.
The focus of Arts Grant Funding is to deliver outcomes that develop the arts, either through:
- generating high-quality arts experiences for the public; or
- providing excellent services, resources or facilities that support the work of artists or the arts sector.

Program Activities

These activities can include:

the creation, production and/or presentation of work to the public
the development of artistic ideas
the delivery of a series of arts activities or events
the provision of supports, resources and facilities to artists.

Eligibility Criteria

Arts Grant Funding is available across all artform and arts practice areas, and is open to organisations and individuals.
Note: Individuals applying must demonstrate that their proposal involves collaboration and/or partnership that include the delivery of public outcomes or outcomes that benefit other artists.
Applications cannot be made to both the Project Award in February and Arts Grant Funding in March 2018. Funding is available to support proposals that take place within or across the 18-month period from July 2018 to December 2019.
In certain cases, applicants may only apply for activities commencing on or after 1 January 2019. These are:
Applicants who have already been awarded funding to support their activities for 2018 in response to an application for Strategic Funding and who have been advised to apply to Arts Grant Funding.
Applicants who have applied to the Festival Investment Scheme (FIS) for 2018, whether their application for funding has been successful or not.
To be eligible to apply, applicants must be:
- resident in the Republic of Ireland. Arts Council may consider their application if they are based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, their application would have to convince them that their proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland; and
- professional practising artists. Even though they might not earn income continuously or exclusively from their arts practice, they must identify themselves, and be recognised by their peers, as professional practising artists.
They are committed to equity and inclusion and welcome applications from individuals or groups within culturally diverse communities and from people with disabilities.