Successful Funding Applications- 15th October
Ready to secure funding for your next artistic project? Whether you are targeting public grants, bursaries, artist residencies, or Percent for Art commissions, knowing where to start—and how to present your vision—is key.
Join us in person at The Carnegie in Swords for a practical, step-by-step session led by Dr Marianne O’Kane Boal. You will learn how to unpack application criteria and build a rock-solid submission from the ground up.
What we’ll cover:
- Structure & Layout: Using effective headings to make your application easy to navigate.
- Realistic Timelines: Mapping out achievable schedules that funders trust.
- Criteria Alignment: Decoding what selection panels are actually looking for.
- Budgets & Narrative: Pairing clear financial planning with a compelling story.
- Pitfall Prevention: Identifying and avoiding the most common application mistakes.
Leave with a practical, repeatable toolkit to help you write stronger, more competitive funding proposals.
Dr Marianne O’Kane Boal
Dr Marianne O’Kane Boal is a well-known curator and writer on art and architecture. She has written extensively on these subjects over the past 25 years. She writes for the Irish Arts Review, Circa, Perspective, Living Design, Visual Artists Newsletter and Architecture Ireland. She has curated over 50 exhibitions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Marianne completed her PhD in Social Research at Atlantic Technological University Sligo in 2023. She is President of the Irish Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and Expert Advisor on Art for the Ministerial Advisory Group on Architecture and the Built Environment in Northern Ireland. She has been delivering webinars and professional development workshops for Visual Artists Ireland for over fifteen years since 2009 on curating, creative proposals, presenting work, writing about practice and public art. Her research interests include art, architecture, children’s literature, the sociology of food and childhood studies. She has presented at conferences in Zurich, Prague, Chile, Belfast and Dublin.
This event is supported by Fingal County Council.