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

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

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 .

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

The deadline for applications for tours beginning in the period January to June 2013 will be Thursday 3 May 2012. Application forms and guidelines are available online and the criteria for the scheme will be similar to previously advertised schemes.

Continuing the audience focused approach that characterises the Arts Council’s Touring Policy, the scheme is designed to support genuine collaboration between those who produce work and wish to tour and the presenting venue or local promoter.

There will be a second deadline in October 2012 for tours in the latter half of 2013 and the same date will be used for application to the Advance Planning strand for tours talking place in 2014. Further information www.artscouncil.ie

This year the awards and prizes will include the Henry Higgins Scholarship Award which is awarded bi-annually and created by a bequest from Chief Justice Higgins in 1929. This Award will enable an art student of outstanding ability to avail of the advantages of travel and study abroad in order to assist them in their transition from study to professional practice.  A new Residency Award at Ireland’s leading contemporary art centre, The Model, Co. Sligo has been introduced. The Model’s acclaimed contemporary art programme features several major exhibitions of noted national and international contemporary artists. The Model Residency Award offers the successful RDS Student Art Awards entrant a one month residency in 2013.

The prize-winning and commended entries will be on display in the RDS Concert Hall at the Dublin Horse Show from August 15-19 (entry fee applies). The RDS Student Art Awards and RDS National Crafts Competition Travelling Exhibition will visit regional venues around Ireland after the Dublin Horse Show concludes. Deadline: June 15 at 5.00pm. Further information is available on the website www.rds.ie/studentart .

Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on contemporary collaborative arts projects. The 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.

The projects can take place in a diverse range of social and community contexts including arts and health; arts in prisons; arts and older people; arts and cultural diversity. The aim of the scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists. It is essential that consultation take place between the artist and the community group, so that both parties are involved in deciding on the nature of the project realisation. Group ownership of the art should be maintained at every stage. The Project realisation may result in a variety of outcomes.

There are two phases to the scheme:

Phase One: Research & Development, is open to artists who wish to research and develop a project in a community context. Maximum time frame is 3 months. The maximum amount awarded in Phase One is €1,000. Research & Development/Mentoring is open to artists who wish to develop a community based project and who have identified an artist mentor they want to work with a during the research and development phase. The maximum award is €1500, which includes €500 fee payable to the mentor.

Phase Two: Project Realisation, is open to communities of interest or place (or their representative organisations), planning a project of between 6 weeks and 5 months duration with a maximum award of €5000, and those who are planning a project of between 6 months and 9 months with a maximum award of €10, 000.

Deadlines:
First Round: Thurs 5 March, 5pm
Second Round: Mon 25 June, 5pm.

Full details and application forms: www.create-ireland.ie

For further information on application criteria and assessment, or to book an advisory session about the Scheme contact Katherine Atkinson, Professional Development:
T: 1-4736600
E: support@create-ireland.ie