Tag: Awards

Open Call: Apply to the DCCI Irish Business Design Challenge

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The Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) launches this year’s Irish Business Design Challenge (IBDC) for micro, small and medium-sized businesses to apply and showcase their commitment to sustainability through innovative design and circular and ethical practices.

In its fourth year, IBDC celebrates businesses that add value, repurpose products, develop eco-friendly processes, enhance efficiency, and tackle societal and environmental challenges through sustainable design.

This year’s challenge has a prize fund of over €50,000.

Examples of Sustainable Design Strategies:

  • Designing for minimal waste.
  • Prioritising durability in design.
  • Utilising safe, renewable, and recycled materials.
  • Championing ethical production practices.
  • Reducing chemical impacts through design.
  • Implementing energy and water-efficient designs.
  • Drawing inspiration from nature’s designs.
  • Dematerialising products and developing sustainable systems and services.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/ibdc

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Award: Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize for Recent Grads

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Li Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano are pleased to announce the 10th edition of the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize. The prize is awarded to a current or recently graduated Textiles or Fashion student who exhibits sustainable thinking and innovative creativity in textiles. It is part of the TALKING TEXTILES initiative, which promotes textile education and creativity.

Submission deadline: 30th of July 2024.

For more information and to see the inspiring work of the winner and the 20 finalists from 2023, visit the website – https://www.textilemonth.nyc/textile-prize-2024


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Opportunity: Future Makers Awards 2024

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Established in 2009, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland’s Future Makers Award is one of Europe’s most extensive prize-funded award programmes. It showcases talent and provides much-needed financial support.

Divided into student and emerging practitioner categories, the award supports this crucial time.

  • Win up to €3,500 to financially support your career.
  • Qualify for the annual RDS Craft Awards and a chance to win one of 5 awards of €10,000 each to support your future growth.
  • Achieve recognition for your talent, potential and creativity.

The categories of awards include the following: sustainable design, studio equipping, residencies/training, and exhibiting/trade events.

The deadline is the 14th of June, 2024.

For more information and to apply, visit the DCCI website – https://www.dcci.ie/dcci-future-makers/apply-now/?campaign=dcci-future-makers

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Education: Workshop on Agility Award via Minding Creative Minds

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Important Update: Join Minding Creative Minds via Zoom for a Workshop with Cli Donnellan. She will teach you how to apply for the Arts Council of Ireland’s valuable Agility Award. This online webinar will also include how to reference your introduction, support material, and work with collaborators.

When: Wednesday, April 3rd 13:00 – 14:00 PM.

For more information, visit the Minding Creative Minds website – https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/events/the-arts-council-agility-award-application-basics/

Here is a link to the Agility Award page on the Arts Council website – https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Agility-Award/

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Opportunity: Festivals Investment Scheme

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The Arts Council of Ireland announces round two of the Festivals Investment Scheme (FIS) for festivals that commence between the 1st of July 2024 and the 31st of December 2024.

They welcome applications from organisations (voluntary and professional) operating annual, biennial or triennial festival programmes and support multi-disciplinary arts festivals and those in a single art form discipline.

The Festivals Investment Scheme is a competitive scheme that offers funding to support the staging of festivals on a non-recurring basis.

The deadline is Thursday, 23rd of November, 2023.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Festivals-Investment-Scheme/

Awards: Applications Open for the Golden Fleece Award

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The mission of the Golden Fleece Award is to provide resources for practising contemporary visual artists and makers to innovate and develop their artistic vision.

The annual award supports artists working in all forms of visual, craft and applied arts at critical junctures of their careers. Applicants should be resident in, or originally from, the island of Ireland.

This year, two main awards worth €10,000 each – one in Visual Art and one in Craft + Applied Art – will be made from a total prize fund of €30,000.

The deadline is 5 PM, Friday, the 24th of November, 2023.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/how-to-apply/apply


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Awards: Emerging Artist Grant via Fiber Art Now

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Are you a recent graduate or new to feltmaking or textiles?

This Fiber Art Now award is available to artists anywhere who have completed a degree program within the last two years or have started working in fibres within the last five years.

Deadline: the 15th of October.

AWARD: 300 USD.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.fiberartnow.net/grantsapp/

Opportunities: Arts and Disability Connect Info Session

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The Arts and Disability Connect scheme is designed to support artists with disabilities to be ambitious, to develop their practice, and to connect with arts organisations and professionals in the Republic of Ireland.

Arts and Disability Connect includes Mentoring, Training, New Work, and Research and Reflection awards for individual artists with disabilities.

On Tuesday, the 19th of September, there is a Zoom information session.

Application deadline: Tuesday, the 10th of October at 4 PM.
Applicants will be contacted with their outcome by early December.

For more information, visit their website – https://adiarts.ie/artists/funding/connect/

News: Tamzen Lundy Wins Award

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Reposted from Tamzen’s Instagram-

“So this happened! Thank you, @craft.ni and curator and guest judge Annie Cattrell, for the “emerging maker award”!! That’s my ‘are they serious, did I hear that right?’ face… and the picture secretly snapped by my mentor and friend @veramcevoy …

A gorgeous exhibition, Pathways, in the heart of Belfast… a wonderful shop too full of great goodies for Christmas and birthdays, supporting local makers… I wish every county in Ireland had a hub of support like this one!

Thanks again for the recognition; so proud and delighted… it’s not often a wee piece of textiles gets to share the platforms with ceramics, glass and jewellery … but there you go. Happy days.”

To see Tamzen’s original post or compliment her, visit her Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tamzenlundydesigns/

@TamzenLundyDesigns

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Award: David Shaw Legacy Award – DCCI Members

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DCCI members who are 50+ are invited to apply for the David Shaw Legacy Award, which has a value of €5,000.

David Shaw-Smith, an Irish filmmaker, who, with his wife Sally, produced and directed the acclaimed documentary series Hands, made over 138 television documentaries during his career.

The award is to support and recognise our masterclass craftspeople’s achievements in their craft’s creative development.

The deadline for receipt of applications is the 30th of August, 2023.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/opportunities/david-shaw-smith-legacy-award