Responsibilities:
The intern will be responsible for managing web content,  including researching, compiling, proofing, editing and uploading copy and images on current information on the visual art sector throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland. He or she will be required to liaise with VAI members, subscribers and staff on web related requests as well as assist the VAI web manager in creation and layout of documentation and articles for the website. Additional responsibilities and projects as directed, depending on interest and capacity.

Skills Requirement:
The internship will appeal to arts or media graduates or those with arts management / web media career interests. The right candidate will have a mix of technical and editorial skills, as well as an interest in the visual arts. A person who is thorough, methodical and attentive to detail will gain from this opportunity.

How to Apply: Interested applications should e-mail a covering letter and CV outlining their education, work and other professional experience. Email: niamh@visualartists.ie

This is an Internship through Jobbridge. An allowance of €50 per week will be paid in addition to your current Social Welfare payment.

The three day programme will feature Art Exhibitions, Live Concerts, Open Studios, Artist Talks, Screenings and Performances. This year’s festival will bring together a number of creative enterprises located between Stoneybatter and Capel St. and includes over 100 participating artists over the entire weekend. The festival will be hosted in up to 20 different buildings around these areas, encompassing the gallery and studio spaces of participating organisations, as well as breathing life into a number of vacant properties. For more information go to www.linkculturefest.ie | For enquiries contact Grace at linkpress@blockt.ie

The emigration of many Bauhäusler, as staff and students alike termed themselves, from Germany helped disperse its ideas around the world, where they were often equated (not always correctly) with principled opposition to Naziism. This lecture will focus on new themes in Bauhaus scholarship, including the increasing recognition being accorded the work of the women who taught and studied there. It will also refer to the exhibition with the same title which is currently on show at London’s Barbican. | Further Information: T: 01 6611155 | E:arts@dublin.goethe.org

An artists’ talk, conducted between curator Gavin Murphy and Nicki Wynnychuk, will take place in The LAB at 1pm on Thursday 24th May. The artist will discuss his residency, his work, and his recent experiences in Papua New Guinea. Booking is advised, please check website for more details : www.pallasprojects.org/site/

Animals have been used in warfare for centuries for many purposes such as communication, espionage, transport or as explosives, detectors or weapons. Like soldiers some of them were decorated or promoted. The title of the exhibition takes its name from the Natural History Museum in Dublin which is commonly known as “The Dead Zoo”. Dead Zoo aims to display a different type of classification than that of nature. The animals represented are not scientifically classified but militarily. Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt have been collaborating since 2005. Together they investigate the representation of individual and collective belonging, the meaning of language, symbols, and information conveyed by the media. The idea for Dead Zoo originates from their residency in Dublin in 2011, an exchange project between Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and the Culture Department of the City of Frankfurt/M. The participation of the artists was assisted by Jonathan Carroll. Supported by the Friends and Patrons of the Goethe-Institut Irland. www.goethe.de/ins/ie/dub/kue/en9263179v.htm

The Philanthropy Leverage Initiative will provide an incentive to arts organisations to proactively seek new and multi-annual relationships with sponsors which deliver private sector financial support, thereby increasing overall funding available to the arts. It will be available across projects of varying scale, geography and art forms.

It is envisaged that this funding will unlock new private sector funding of 2.5 times the State allocation of €230,000 generating total additional funding of €805,000 to the arts in 2012. The pilot initiative will be reviewed at the end of 2012.

The Leverage Initiative will run in parallel with a second initiative – the Philanthropy Capacity Building Initiative – which is operated by the Arts Council. Under this initiative the Arts Council will provide one-to-one professional advice and direct funding support to a number of selected organisations to help them build and resource their capacity to attract philanthropic giving. Full details available on :  www.ahg.gov.ie

This year’s eva International, curated by Annie Fletcher, Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, takes the title After the Future to examine how certain artistic practices provide an active invocation of the present and speculate how we arrived here in the first place. eva International – After the Future features a central exhibition curated by Annie Fletcher, selected from over 2000 proposals from 76 countries, and is accompanied by a series of intense collaborations with local, national and international partners. | www.eva.ie

For this exhibition at Grand Union, their collection will be displayed dynamically according to six curatorial axes, exploring the spectrum of relationships between conceptual content, physical publication formats and the experience of the Reader. Grand Union will also show a programme of screen based works that expand on these ideas and the act of reading. Many Irish-linked artists are represented in the collection, including: Sarah Browne, Garrett Phelan, Linda Quinlan, Celine Sheridan, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Sean Lynch, Lee Welch, Brian Flanagan, Stephen Brandes, Elaine Byrne, Wayne Daly, Denis McNulty & Peter Maybury. | www.thereadingroom-index.com

Encaustic Painting Workshop | Sat 16 June | 10.30 – 16.30 | Tutor: Bláithín Quinn | Encaustic painting, also known as ‘Hot Wax’ painting was used in ancient Greece and Egypt to depict mythology and to colour marble. In this experimental workshop, participants will mix pigments with molten beeswax and paraffin wax to create textured and colourful paintings. Cost: E 60 (Max. 12 people)

Experimental Paper Art & Papermaking Workshop | Sunday 17 June | 11.00 – 17.00 | Tutor: Tunde Toth | This workshop is designed for participants with some previous experience in hand papermaking, paper arts and/or silk fibre papermaking. Participants will be introduced to techniques for three-dimensional and sculptural projects as well as using wax and batik processes, fibre scorching, stitching, sewing and collage work. Cost: E 70 (Max. 8 people)

Mosaic-making Workshop | Sunday 24 June | 11.00 – 16.30 | Tutor: Andi McGarry | Create beautiful mosaic pieces in this introductory workshop. Learn about colour arrangement, techniques and design. Participants are welcome to bring along a simple design to work with. Cost: E 60 (Max. 10 people)

Cardmaking Workshop | Saturday 30 June | 10.30 – 16.00 | Tutor: Ann Cannon | Design and create beautiful, unique cards using a variety of materials and craft techniques. Participants are welcome to bring along craft pieces to incorporate into their cards if desired. Cost: E 50 (Max. 10 people)

Letterpress Workshop: Letterheads | Sunday 1 July | 11.00 – 16.00 | Tutor: Conrad Devlin | Discover the fascinating techniques of traditional letterpress printing in this workshop. Learn the fundamentals of typesetting and letterpress printing while creating and printing personalised letterheads. Designed for those without prior printing experience, this workshop will cover. Cost: E 55 (Max. 7 people) | www.nationalprintmuseum.ie

You are invited to give testimony, but give it in a language that is accessible and does not hide behind the vagueness of some artistic expressions. What hope in art means in your lived experience and to share this with an understanding that the audience may not be used to the language of art. This work calls not for the polished presentation of an artist’s statement but an honest sharing of our beliefs. There are ten spaces available and each volunteer/participant will be asked to bring a witness for their testimony. Testimonies will be shared with the entire group. Each testimony will last up to ten minutes and light refreshments will be provided afterwards. The event will be documented as research. If you are interested in sharing please contact Julie at miller.julie83@gmail.com | www.makingsomethingsmallhappen.wordpress.com

The aim of Production Ireland is to identify and support some of the most promising art practitioners connected to Ireland, North and South, and provide them with an opportunity to produce new work and bring it to the attention of a wider public. No age limit or specified nationality applies to this call but the applicant needs be in the earlier stages of his or her career and have a connection to Ireland. The jurors for this years’ commission are Locky Morris, Paul O’Neill, and Emily Pethick.

Deadline for applications is Friday, June 1st (Greenwich Mean Time). The successful applicant(s) will be contacted during the first half of July. For information about eligibility and how you apply, please visit our website for further information: www.cca-derry-londonderry.org

Josephsohn, now in his 90s, is a highly regarded artist and his practice continues to inform and inspire contemporary artists. This will be his first solo exhibition in Ireland and his first institutional exhibition since 2008. In the past decade there have been major solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt. Throughout the summer there will be a programme of events involving cultural commentators and a specially commissioned publication will be published in summer 2012. www.lismorecastlearts.ie

An exhibition of the work of Northern Irish – Born painter William McKeown, who until his death last year painted the sky of his adopted city of Edinburgh and his native County Tyrone. McKeown was a great admirer of Inverleith House where this spring, a collection of his most recent paintings will be exhibited for the first time. We are deeply grateful to the artist’s estate and to the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin for their support in making this exhibition possible. www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house/current-exhibitions

Artists wishing to apply should simply email Leitrim Arts Office on ckelly@leitrimcoco.ie to declare their interest in the programme. There is no need to supply any information other than an email address at this point. From that a site visit day will be arranged where artists who have declared their interest will be invited to visit each company, talk with management and staff and come to a better understanding of the programme and the companies involved.

Closing Date for expression of interest: 5pm, Friday 8th June |  Site Visit: Thursday 14th June | Closing Date for receipt of proposals: Thursday 12th July | Artists Selected by Thursday 19th July | Residency Dates: July to December, average two days/week | Artist Fee: €7,000 (circa €350/two-day week inclusive of all costs inc travel, accommodation etc.) | A materials budget of €3,000 is also provided (€1,500 for each of the two strands of the residency). | www.leitrimarts.ie

Speakers will include Orlaith McBride (Director, The Arts Council), Patrick T. Murphy (Director, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin), Dawn Williams (Exhibitions Officer, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork), Alex Pentek (Artist), Gemma Tipton (Writer/Guest Artistic Director, Kinsale Arts Week), Claire Power (Studios Development Manager, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin), Tom Creed (Director, Cork Midsummer Festival), Ann Davoren (Director, West Cork Arts Centre), Maud Cotter (Artist), Stephanie Hough (Artist/Co-founder, Basement Project Space, Cork), Josephine Kelliher (Owner/Director, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin), Clodagh Kenny (Director, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin), plus more to be announced. Further info E: vawforum@gmail.com | www.facebook.com/visualarts.workersforum | www.visualartsworkersforum.blogspot.com