Attention all third level art students and recent graduates, Were you born or do you live in County Meath? Are you a full-time third level art student studying towards a degree or masters? How would you like the opportunity to hold your first solo exhibition? Then you should enter for this award. This award is intended to support final year students or recent graduates of art, living in, or from County Meath by providing them with the opportunity to hold their first solo exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre. The Award also carries a bursary of E 650 | Closing date for applications Friday 5pm 25th May 2012 | Meath County Council Arts Office, Abbey Mall, Abbey Road
Navan, Co. Meath | E: artsoffice@meathcoco.ie | www.meath.ie

Artform & practices: Architecture, Arts participation, Circus, Dance, Film, Literature (English language), Music, Opera, Spectacle, Street arts, Traditional arts, Venues, Visual arts, Young people children and the arts. Maximum awarded: €8000

There are no formal deadlines for the Travel and Training Award. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Applicants seeking support for formal courses (postgraduate or equivalent) and for other eligible opportunities must submit their application at least six weeks before their course or work programme begins. You are advised that the Arts Council cannot guarantee to assess applications received less than six weeks before a course or work programme begins.
Purpose and priorities of award

There are three strands to this award. The principal strand is Travel and Training Outbound, for which the majority of funding is available; the secondary strand is Travel and Training Inbound; a third strand is the CCP International Award. Full details on http://www.artscouncil.ie

Attention all artists and Arts students. Arts funding available from Killarney Arts. Eamon Kelly Bursary 2012 for the Development and Promotion of the Arts. Open to artists and arts students in all areas of the arts who are natives or residents of Killarney, Co. Kerry. Information & Application Form now available from: The Secretary, Killarney Arts, Killarney Town Council, Town Hall, Killarney. Email: morgan.pierce@killarneytc.ie | Closing Date 31 May 2012

The Arts Council and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht announce the Engaging with Architecture Scheme 2012, with the purpose of engaging the public with architecture. The closing date for applications is Thursday 31st May 2012 and projects must take place before 31st March 2013. The ‘Engaging with Architecture Scheme’ was developed as a partnership initiative in response to both the Government Policy on Architecture 2009 – 2015 Towards a Sustainable Future: Delivering Quality within the Built Environment and the Arts Council’s research into Public Engagement with Architecture (2009). Award guidelines can be found on the available funding section of the Arts Council website. www.artscouncil.ie/en/homepage.aspx

The CCP International Award is intended to support applications from arts organisations planning to make applications to the EU Culture Programme 2007-14. The award will cover a portion of the costs associated with face-to -face meetings with partner organisations in Europe and will not support training costs or courses.  Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are in the process of preparing an application to the EU Culture Programme and be able to provide details of their proposed project and their key partners. It is likely that funding offered under CCP International will not exceed €2,000 and in most cases will be less. The CCP International Award supports applications from all art forms and arts practices. However, as the Culture Programme does not support audio-visual projects, film is not eligible for support under the CCP International Award. Please visit the Travel and Training funding page on the Arts Council’s website to learn more www.artscouncil.ie. Alternatively you can contact the CCP Ireland, Katie Lowry by email on ccp@artscouncil.ie for further
information.

Attention all third level art students and recent graduates:
• Where you born or do you live in County Meath?
• Are you a full-time third level art student studying towards a degree or masters?
• How would you like the opportunity to hold your first solo exhibition?
• Then you should enter for this award.

This award is intended to support final year students or recent graduates of art, living in, or from County Meath by providing them with the opportunity to hold their first solo exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre. The Award also carries a bursary of €650.

For further information and to request Application forms, please contact Meath County Council Arts Office. www.meath.ie/LocalAuthorities/Arts/BursariesandAwards/ |
T: 046 9097411 | E: artsoffice@meathcoco.ie | Deadline: 5pm Friday 25th May 2012

Regarded as one of the largest competitive platforms for Craft in Europe, the RDS brings an international panel of judges to Ireland to adjudicate its 20 category Crafts Competition. Open to craft makers and designers living in Ireland or Irish makers abroad, the Competition attracts the very best in amateur and professional crafts practices. With a prize fund in excess of €27,000 in RDS prizes and awards, the highest accolade is the RDS Award of Excellence of €7,000 and the California Gold Medal. Both established and emerging makers can compete for awards such as the RDS Award of Excellence, the RDS Graduate and New Entrant’s Prize. This year, the Competition includes two new award initiatives; a one month residency at the Leatherwork Design Studio of Róisín Gartland at the Design Tower, Dublin; and a one month internship award to work with furniture maker Charles Shackleton of Shackleton Thomas Furniture in Vermont, USA.

The prize-winning and commended entries of the 2012 RDS National Crafts Competition will be on display in the RDS Concert Hall during the Dublin Horse Show from August 15-19 (entry fee applies). The RDS National Crafts Competition and RDS Student Art Awards Travelling Exhibition will visit regional venues around Ireland after the Dublin Horse Show concludes. All information is available on the website www.rds.ie/crafts .

The RHA is delighted to present an open call for submissions to the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary 2012. The Bursary of €2,500 is awarded to enable Irish artists to further their studies abroad. Previous winners include Leda Scully, Amy O’Riordan, Hugh McCarthy, Simon McWilliams, Tony O’Malley, Eamonn O’Kane and Catherine Harper. This Scholarship is awarded in memory of Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a lifelong friend and supporter of the visual arts in Ireland. The Purser family, into which Elizabeth was born in 1904, was one of a Dublin circle with many artistic affiliations. Between 1930 and 1980 she moved in this circle which included Sarah Purser – her great aunt, Jack Yeats, ‘A.E.’, Mainie Jellett and Mary Swanzy.

Conditions : 1. Candidates must be Irish citizens or born on the Island of Ireland. 2. Candidates must be 35 years of age or under on January 1st, 2012. 3. Candidates must submit the application form detailing how they propose to use the Bursary for studies abroad. 4. Candidates must submit 8 – 10 images of their work in a printed format only, clearly marked with their name, the title of the piece, the medium and the dimensions. 5. The deadline for receipt of completed application forms is Friday 1st of June 2012. 6. The recipient will be required to give a report on how they used the award upon their return. 7. The winner of the bursary is entitled to exhibit one piece of work in the RHA Annual Exhibition in 2013. For further details, contact the 
Academy Co-ordinator, Fernando Sanchez T: 01 661 2558 
| E: fernando@rhagallery.ie | The award conditions and application form are available to download from our website www.royalhibernianacademy.ie

We are delighted to offer two bursaries for 2012 funded by Offaly County Council and the Arts Council. Two National Bursaries open to artists resident in Ireland. Benefits include studio and accommodation for 8 weeks. Belmont is set in a rural community on a beautifully restored heritage site of an 18th century oat mill.  Applications by post only please to include: CV education and training, exhibitions and personnel details, images on a CD of your work and a narrative to accompany it, statement of what you hope to gain from the residency at Belmont. Start date from 12th May 2012 for 8 weeks. (Sorry no children, pets or partners can be facilitated). Applications to: Sandy Lloyd, Mill House, Belmont, Birr, Co. Offaly. Enquiries to sandy@belmontmill.com 087 989 3805 | www.belmontmill.com | Deadline: 6th May 2012

The Jim McNaughton/ TileStyle E 10,000 Artist Bursary is given to an artist gaining experience in the field of commissioning or partnering with businesses or other organisations to deliver innovative arts programmes. This award is intended to contribute to the development of the artist’s craft or practice. Apply by returning a completed application form, plus 500 words about the artist, their practice, and how they would use the bursary, to Business to Arts. The closing date is Thursday 3 May 2012. This award is accepting applications from artists working in any medium and through any art form. The Allianz Business to Arts Awards recognise businesses, artists and arts organisations that develop creative partnerships, bringing the arts and artists into mutually beneficial relationships. The Awards invite you to share the stories of your successes with your peers, to demonstrate your pride in what you have achieved and to seek to join the prestigious list of winners which represent the very best models developed in partnership between the corporate and cultural worlds in Ireland. You will find the application form and further details about the bursary on our website www.businesstoarts.ie/awards | T: +353 1 672 5336. Contact us for support in preparing your nomination.