Deadline: 15-Sep-22
The Arts Council is seeking applications from Workspaces in the Republic of Ireland for its Visual Artists Workspace Scheme.
Purposes
- The purpose of the Visual Artists Workspace Scheme is to support artists’ workspaces throughout the country to provide the best possible working environment for visual artists and, where feasible, to enable a level of subsidy for the artists working in these spaces.
- The scheme is in line with the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–25), Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland, which commits to ensuring ‘a supportive working environment that addresses key points in the creative cycle by which art is made’.
Funding Information
The scheme will award grants of up to €50,000 towards workspace costs – i.e. the running costs of the workspace such as light, heat, rent, administration and/or appropriate management costs and artist development costs. A proportion of support up to a maximum of 20% of the total request may be directed towards essential repair and maintenance.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are welcome from the following:
- Workspace in the Republic of Ireland
- Workspaces dedicated to the support of professional visual artists
- Workspaces that accommodate at least four professional visual artists working on site.
- Workspaces proposing to collaborate to share resources for the benefit of the visual artists working in their spaces
- Organisations/Groups/Collectives that have an established workspace
Note: workspaces that are successful in their application to this scheme cannot have received or have applied to other Arts Council Awards or grant programmes for the same purpose.
Who cannot apply?
Those who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individual artists
- Workspaces that receive funding through this scheme cannot receive funding for the same purposes through other Arts Council awards or grant schemes for 2023
- Workspaces with fewer than four working visual artists
- Organisations/groups/collectives that do not yet have an established workspace.
For more information, visit Visual Artists Workspace Scheme.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Visual-Artists-Workspace-Scheme/