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 2022 Deadlines for the AIC Scheme are 5pm Monday 28th March (Round 1) and Mon 26 September (Round 2). This includes the following awards: Research and…
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News 9 August 2022
Create is pleased to announce the appointment of Damien McGlynn as Director of the organisation. Damien has worked in the cultural sector across Ireland, the UK and Europe for 15 years. He is currently the Ireland Director of Creative Lives, where he has managed major public engagement projects such as Creative Places: Edenderry and…
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Creative Places: Tuam
News, Recipients 27 July 2022
Create, Galway Arts Centre and Creative Places Tuam are delighted to announce Pavithra Kannan as the recipient of this residency award. The residency will take place in September across both Galway Arts Centre and Creative Places Tuam, providing opportunities for research, exchange, networking, and learning, with additional curatorial advice from Galway Arts Centre. Pavithra intends…
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News, Opportunities Apply before: 22 August 2022
The Hugh Lane Gallery and Create are delighted to announce this significant opportunity for a collaborative/ socially engaged artist(s) to embark on a major commission. Following on from their successful partnership on the CAPP commission (2017) awarded to Seamus Nolan’s Traveller Collection which investigated the idea of archive, deconstructed ideas on ‘heritage’ and engaged with…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News 14 July 2022
The Hold: Mary Sullivan and Bere Island Women Create Funded by the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create The Hold (2020 – 2022) is a project that forefronts the act of community, creativity, and collaboration in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, where an unravelling of social and communal cohesion is prevalent in…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
The Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, managed by Create for the Arts Council, supports artists and communities to work together on innovative collaborative arts projects. Create’s management of the scheme contributes to our strategic goals (Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland) and recognises the nature of collaborative arts practice as relational and…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News 4 July 2022
Create is pleased to partner with the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) to offer the 2022 AIC Scheme bursary award on Collaborative Arts and Cultural Diversity. This bursary is designed to support individual professional artists whose practice centres on collaboration with individuals or groups (non-arts professionals). The AIC Bursary Award 2022: Collaborative Arts and Cultural…
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Multi-Story
News, Create News Periodical 22 June 2022
John Bissett is a community worker who lives and works in Dublin. John has been involved with a broad range of social movements working to effect positive change and to challenge the imposition of policies and actions which dominate and inflict suffering across the social body. He has been involved with grassroots youth and community…
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News, Opportunities Deadline expired
Following on from our successful 2020 Artist in the Community Scheme Cultural Diversity Residency partnership, SIRIUS in Cobh, Co. Cork and Create are delighted to once again offer a Residency opportunity for a collaborative / socially engaged artist. We specifically invite expressions of interest from artists who are committed to developing or consolidating their collaborative…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News, Recipients 13 June 2022
Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios are pleased to announce Nasrin Golden as the recipient of the 2022 Remote Residency Award. This award was designed for collaborative socially engaged artists who are from a minority ethnic background, have first-hand experience of displacement and/or who are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration. The Residency will take…
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News, Recipients 31 May 2022
Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round One) in 2022, who come from a range of art forms and contexts. Read more about each recipient, and their planned course of work, below. Research and Development Award Artist Conor Courtney will work with Taplin’s Fields Community Garden, utilizing scientific techniques and tools…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News, Opportunities Deadline expired
Create, Galway Arts Centre and Creative Places Tuam invite expressions of interest from collaborative socially engaged artists who are from a minority ethnic background, have first-hand experience of displacement and/or are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration. For this residency, candidates may self-identify as Traveller, Roma, refugee, migrant or otherwise through lived experience and/or second…
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