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Artist in the Community Scheme

AIC Scheme 2025 (Round Two) open for applications

The remaining 2025 Deadline for Round Two of the AIC Scheme is Monday 29th September 2025. Applications are now OPEN. This includes the following awards: Research and Development Award (without mentoring) Research and Development Award (with Mentoring) Recent Graduate Research and Development Award (with Mentoring) Project Realisation Award How to Apply Application forms for each…

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NEIC Community Arts Programme

Graphic Designers needed for NEIC Community Arts Programme

News · Opportunities Deadline expired

The vision for Dublin’s North East Inner City (NEIC) Community Arts Programme is that community arts can be transformative. Community Arts is an essential component of social inclusion, social justice and equality. Since 2025, Create has managed the Community Arts Programme in the NEIC, with the aim to support artists and steer the development of place-based collaborative…

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Artist Mentor Panel

2025 Artist Mentoring Award Recipients Announced

News · Recipients 9 July 2025

Create is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 Artist Mentoring Award. This award sits within a suite of offerings under the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme. Now in its fourth year, it aims to offer capacity building and arts practice development for collaborative socially engaged artists, and artists who are transitioning into…

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Create Reading Room now open for bookings

News · Opportunities

We are delighted to announce that our newly launched Reading Room space is now available to book, for those who wish to use the space and consult materials Create holds in our Reading Room and archive. The Create Reading Room offers access to a wealth of books, periodicals and pamphlets related to the development of…

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Opportunity: Create seeks Finance Manager (Maternity cover)

News · Opportunities

Create is currently recruiting for a Finance Manager on a Maternity Cover basis (4 days per week). The role of Finance Manager is key to the organisation providing quality services to artists and communities across Ireland and the smooth management and administration of the organisation’s work. The Finance Manager is a busy, varied and collaborative…

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AIC Scheme 2025 Round One: Successful Recipients

News · Recipients 5 June 2025

Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round One) in 2025, 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 Jan McCullough will engage with Female Woodworkers across Ireland to explore together how shared skills,…

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2025 AIC Scheme Bursary Award now open for applications

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We are delighted to issue this open call for applications to the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Awards 2025. The objective of the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists in any artform to develop their collaborative socially engaged arts practice. There will be two awards of €20,000 awarded in 2025,…

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Alliance for Socially Engaged Art Fellowship awarded to Create’s Director

News 3 June 2025

We are so pleased to announce that our Director, Damien McGlynn, has been chosen to take part in the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts Fellowship, beginning in mid-June 2025 and running to November 2026. The Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts Fellowship is a transformative programme designed to connect and support visionary leaders of arts organisations…

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Artist Residencies and Commissions

Catalyst Residency Recipient 2025 announcement: Obinna Michael Imo

News · Recipients 13 May 2025

Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) are delighted to announce Obinna Michael Imo as the recipient of the 2025 Catalyst Residency Award. Obinna Michael Imo is a self-taught visual artist, graphic designer, clothing and digital designer originally from Nigeria and living in Dublin. His current work explores the power of art to engage and…

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Create Reading Room and Archive launched

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On the 6th May 2025, we were delighted to welcome artists, academics, partners organisations, members of our board and more, to launch our new Reading Room and Archive. This evening was both the culmination of a large-scale refurbishment project, and the beginning of a newly enhanced resource for the sector. The project, designed by Plattenbau…

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Create News 37 – Embedding Structures of Resilience

Create News Periodical 12 May 2025

One of Create’s core purposes as a resource organisation is to ensure that artists working in the field of collaborative socially engaged arts are supported to operate to the highest possible standards. In reviewing our training offerings, we consistently hear from artists and community members that conflict resolution and working sustainably with difference is an…

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Artist Residencies and Commissions

Dr Ailbhe Murphy Research Residency 2025

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Create is delighted to announce the Dr Ailbhe Murphy Research Residency 2025. This award is in honour and remembrance of our former Director, Dr. Ailbhe Murphy, who sadly passed away in May 2024. Ailbhe’s commitment to supporting collaborative arts practitioners and to deep and rigorous research have inspired this award. The Research Residency is designed…

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