Tag: Awards

Opportunity: Future Makers 2023

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Future Makers is a Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) initiative recognising talent, potential and creativity. It aims to support the next generation of makers, designers and craftspeople to take the step from training into enterprise. Divided into student and emerging practitioner categories and covering a wide range of disciplines, it is one of the largest prize-funded award programmes in Europe.

Emerging maker category criteria:

Currently in post-graduate studies in a craft or design discipline or graduated from full-time study between 2-6 years ago at the date of entry to Future Makers. And/or have established a craft or design enterprise in the past 6 years. Proof of education history, self-employed status or company incorporation will need to be supplied.

For more information, visit Future Makers.

Note: Pathway to the RDS Craft Awards 2024

Design & Crafts Council Ireland’s Future Makers Awards is the qualifying competition for the RDS Craft Awards. RDS Craft Awards offers five x €10,000 bursaries for emerging Irish craft makers. To be eligible to apply for the RDS Craft Awards, emerging makers must have received a Future Makers Award in the preceding year. 

For more information, please visit the RDS website

Reminder: Membership Renewal – with Bursary

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Bursary Award 

While we are delighted to announce that we will be giving one lucky member a whopping €250 to put towards any workshop either in person or online, from any international tutor of your choice, it is also a membership renewal reminder. 

Anyone whose 2023 membership is paid up before May 1st will be eligible for the draw at the AGM on May 7th (more details about the AGM will be sent out soon) 

Contact me, Fiona, your friendly membership secretary!

Email: allmembers.feltmakersireland@gmail.com

Thank you to all those who’ve signed up already, and good luck to everyone. 

Fiona and the committee

{Work featured in the image are from left to right: tutor Nancy Ballesteros, Feltmakers Ireland member Doris Reinisch, who previously won a bursary and attended a Molly Williams course, and tutor Fiona Duthie. }

Opportunity: The Leitrim Design House National Design, Craft & Art Awards – Friday, June 23rd

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The Leitrim Design House wishes to invite makers, artists & designers around the Island of Ireland to respond to the theme of reused sustainability. The winner will be presented with €2,500 & a solo exhibition in 2024 for the best overall submission. A specially commended prize of €1,000 will be awarded to a runner-up. 

For more information and to apply visit https://leitrimdesignhouse.ie/blogs/news/the-leitrim-design-house-national-design-craft-art-awards

Bursary award: Feltmakers Ireland

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Bursary award 2021

To offer our members something for 2021 we are running a draw. The draw will take place on 5th March…. all membership renewals as well as new members will be entered into a hat ( all membership renewals up until 3rd march will be entered).

One lucky winner will be chosen at random- and offered a bursary up to the value of €200- paid for by Feltmakers Ireland… for use on an online workshop course- of their choice. Its a great prize, a lovely offer of hope and learning as we face into another year. We would hope that the lucky winner might write up a little blog article of their work or their workshop experience. Not giving away any valued techniques of course but more a “what I learnt and how I managed online” diary piece. Good luck everybody!