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Open Call – Future Forecast: HAVEN, Project Arts Centre
Project Arts Centre is pleased to announce an open call for a series of 3 artist commissions. Future Forecast is a series of events and artistic interventions forming part of a speculative voyage towards the future. Future Forecast is a multiway transmission with 2020+ vision. In a statement on the Project Arts Centre website they…
Open Call | Interdisciplinary Film, Performance, Installation Art for Hungry Eyes Festival, Germany
For its fourth edition, hungry eyes festival is once again looking for artistic works that situate themselves at the intersection of film, performance and installation art and that question film in an interdisciplinary way. This year hungry eyes festival will take place 5-7 February 2021 in the urban exhibition space KiZ (Kultur im Zentrum) in…
Open Call | Artist Residency Programme 2020-21 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, USA
The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is accepting applications for its 2020-2021 Artist Residency program. The deadline for applications is August 30, 2020, at midnight. The intentions of the program are to assist talented, self-directed and committed artists in the creation of work by providing necessary financial support, access to high-end facilities and proper technical assistance…
Open Call | Céline Bureau – Curatorial Residency 2020, Montreal, Canada
Céline Bureau is a non-profit artist residency in Montréal which fosters exchanges between local, national and international artists of different ages, backgrounds, mediums, and identities. The residency provides a shared workspace to research and develop ideas and / or practices alongside other artists. Céline Bureau are now looking for 3 curators to be part of…
ONLINE: Visual Artists Café with Maeve O’Flaherty and Deirdre Robb (28 July)
We hope you can join us from your home or studio. It’s not just a chance for you to find out what’s happening in the art world, it’s also a fantastic opportunity to connect with artists and chat over a cup of tea. At this July Café we will hear from: Maeve O’Flaherty will be…
ONLINE: Visual Artists Café – Show + Tell (25 August)
This Visual Artists’ Café will put our members in the spotlight. We will see work from 6 artists for our fourth online Show & Tell. We hope you can join us from your home or studio. Anyone who has attended one of our Visual Artist Cafés around the country over the last year or so will…
Visual Artists Help Desk with Rob Hilken (Online)
Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next? Every Wednesday artists can book a Help Desk session that will be held online. These Help Desks will be free of charge for Members and Non Members for the duration of the…
Visual Artists Help Desk with Shelly McDonnell (Online)
Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next? Artists can book a Help Desk session that will be held online. These Help Desks will be free of charge for Members and Non Members for the duration of the current crisis.…
We Often Forget | John Busher at The Complex, Dublin
23/07/2020 – 04/08/2020 @ – Working over a period of 18 months, artist John Busher has often traded back and forth between painting and printmaking. In Shopping (Without Haste), 2019, a barely-there figure appears, shrouded or masked. Working in high-keyed grounds, Busher paints partly recognizable environments, housing estates, shop fronts, lanes, and alleyways. There is a sense of a world […]
He Wasn’t There | Hue Hale at Hosek Contemporary, Berlin
24/07/2020 – 09/08/2020 @ – He Wasn’t There – an exhibition by Hue Hale Curated by Linda Toivio Hosek Contemporary is pleased to invite you to the opening of Hue Hale’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. “The conventional identity of a young man has always been unclear to me, the identity of a young queer man holds even greater […]
Ordinary People and Extraordinary People | Ray Corcoran at Signal Arts Centre, Bray
20/07/2020 – 02/08/2020 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm – Ray Corcoran has been involved in the arts for over four decades. A native of Kilkenny, Corcoran has spent the past twenty years living and working in Bray. His work seeks to capture a wide variety of subject matter from portraits of well-known and lesser known figures to scenes of both rural and urban landscapes. […]
Not the time to be silent: Poet Ruth Marshall + open mic
16/07/2020 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Not the time to be silent is an online Arts response to social distancing in the form of a weekly online poetry reading + open mic and a community group. On Thursday 16 July @ 8 we have Poet Ruth Marshall reading. Ruth Marshall is a Scottish poet and storyteller, living in rural Co. Clare, […]
July 14, 2020
90 Artists to Receive Micro Grants from RHA #ReallyHelpingArtists
#ReallyHelpingArtists was a initiative the RHA conceived back in April as a way of creating a positive action amid all of the close-downs and uncertainty of that first full month of lock-down. RHA were very aware that the precarious economics that most artists survive on had just become even more impossible in these new circumstances.…
July 14, 2020
Bassam Al-Sabah, Sam Keogh, Ruth E. Lyons and Inga Meldere Recipients of TBG+S International Residencies
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the recipients of our International Residency Programme, supporting artist residencies in New York, Paris and Dublin. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Residency 2020, in New York, is awarded to Sam Keogh. The TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange 2020, in Dublin, is awarded to Inga Meldere.…
July 14, 2020
Alan Dunne and Alé Mercado Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020
Two Irish Illustrators, Alan Dunne and Alé Mercado, are shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020. Alan Dunne is shortlisted for his work for the An Post Christmas Stamps 2019 in the Design Product & Packaging category and Alé Mercado is shortlisted for his work for West Cork Podcast Live Show in the same Design…
July 14, 2020
Call for Information – Highlighting Public Art in Healthcare
artsandhealth.ie and publicart.ie are seeking examples of artwork commissioned under the Department of Health, Per Cent for Art Scheme between 2010 and 2020. artsandhealth.ie and publicart.ie would like to get a comprehensive picture of artwork that has been or is being commissioned through the Irish Government Per Cent for Art Scheme in healthcare settings, over…