Artist in the Community Scheme
News 18 January 2023
We are pleased to share a case study written by artist Brigid Mulligan about her Arists in the Community Scheme funded project with The Freebirds Motorcycle Club. The Freebirds M.C.C. project is a year-long project by artist Brigid Mulligan and twelve members of Freebirds Motorcycle club from county Longford. The project crossed various artforms including…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News, Opportunities Apply before: 27 March 2023
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 is open to artists from any of the following artform disciplines: architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language),…
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News, Recipients 15 December 2022
Create the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland and hablarenarte an independent platform based in Madrid, Spain that supports the creation, dissemination and promotion of contemporary arts and culture, are pleased to announce Irish artist Tara Carroll as the recipient of a Residency at Planta Alta in Madrid. Supported through the Arts Council…
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News 15 December 2022
2022 was a year filled with professional development opportunities, artist advisory support, awards, bursaries, public events, capacity building and more. As the work of collaborative/ socially engaged artists continued to evolve through 2022, we were delighted to be able to support their work throughout the year and across the country. Here’s just a selection of…
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News 7 December 2022
Create is thrilled to have been chosen to be part of the RAISE Up Fund for 2023. An Arts Council initiative delivered by O’Kennedy Consulting since 2018, RAISE focuses on building capacity to generate significant private and philanthropic investment for the arts and cultural sectors. Being part of the RAISE UP Fund will have a very…
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News 24 November 2022
Create is delighted to announce a hybrid residency with Critical Friends as part of our Library and Archive project. Critical Friends is a network of professional practitioners with socially engaged, participatory and collaborative practices who have graduated at a Masters level. Initiated by a group of postgraduates from the MA in Socially Engaged Art and…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News 23 November 2022
Create and the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) are delighted to announce Rehan Ali as the recipient of the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2022: Collaborative Arts and Cultural Diversity. Originally from Pakistan, Rehan Ali moved to Ireland in 2005 at the age of 6. He would go on to spend ten and a half…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News 17 November 2022
Create has an exciting new job opportunity for a part-time (3 days weekly) Research and Learning Programmer. The Research and Learning Programmer is a busy, varied and exciting role which presents the successful candidate with an opportunity to make a real contribution to the organisation’s development and to its continued success in the coming years….
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News, Recipients 17 November 2022
Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round Two) 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 Dr Sinead McCann and Alan James Burn will work with service users of St John…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News 14 November 2022
We are delighted to feature a case study from 2018 AIC Scheme Bursary recipient Marielle MacLeman. Marielle was awarded the Bursary in Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts. Marielle will be exhibiting a new textile work, Care Quilt and Moral Boundaries I, at Dublin Arts Book Fair 2022 (24th November – 4th December). Using plant dyes and tumble drier…
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News 17 October 2022
Create the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland and hablarenarte an independent platform based in Madrid, Spain that supports the creation, dissemination and promotion of contemporary arts and culture, are pleased to announce a Residency opportunity for a collaborative artist based in Ireland at Planta Alta in Madrid. Supported through the Arts Council…
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News, Recipients 5 September 2022
We are pleased to announce Amna Walayat as the recipient of the SIRIUS and Create Artist Residency Award. Amna is a Cork-based, Pakistani-born artist examining South Asian identity, drawing from her personal experience as well as past and contemporary narratives of othering. Her practice explores the imagery and techniques of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting,…
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