Deadline: 30 September 2024
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? 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 aim of the scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists. Create defines community in the broadest sense of the word, however for the AIC Scheme the artist or artists must be collaborating with a community of non-arts professionals. Create defines collaborative arts as artists and communities working closely together, often over extended periods of time, to make art.
Opportunities Available
- 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 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 time frame should be no longer than 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 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.
Funding Information
- Research and Development Award without mentoring: €3,500.
- Research and Development Award with Mentoring: €4,500.
- Recent Graduate Research and Development Award with Mentoring: €4,500.
- Project Realisation Award: €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 The Arts Council.
