Open Call: Artist Mentoring Award 2025 – Artist in the Community Scheme

Applications are invited from collaborative, socially engaged artists, or artists transitioning into collaborative, socially engaged arts, who wish to avail of a focused period of mentorship to develop and consolidate their practice.

The Mentoring Award is funded through the Artist in the Community Scheme (AIC), managed by Create on behalf of the Arts Council.

For the five selected artist mentees, the award offers an eight-month period of capacity building and arts practice development through dialogue with an experienced collaborative, socially engaged artist mentor.

Who is this award for? 
This opportunity is for emerging collaborative, socially engaged artists or artists who have a midcareer/established individual arts practice and are transitioning into collaborative, socially engaged arts who are seeking support from a critical friend/guide as they develop their practice.

The award is aimed at:

• Artists who find themselves on the margins and feel they are underrepresented in the field of collaborative, socially engaged arts, for example, due to displacement or migration, disability;
• Artists who are experiencing a particular practice-based challenge in developing their collaborative, socially engaged arts practice.

Artist Mentor Panel
The Artist Mentor Panel is made up of experienced collaborative, socially engaged practitioners who specialise in a range of artforms, and who have worked with diverse communities from across Ireland and beyond. Each brings in-depth knowledge of the field, and a deep awareness of key considerations when working with communities, including in sensitive settings and where projects are addressing significant social issues.

Closing date 
Tuesday 6 May 2025, 5pm

How to Apply
Further details and application form: https://www.create-ireland.ie/open-call-aic-scheme-artist-mentoring-award-2025/