The second Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2021, in partnership with Irish Local Development Network, is themed on Collaborative Arts and Community Development and aims to support individual professional artists working in collaborative socially engaged arts practice.

The purpose of the award is to support and nurture professional arts practice; it is specifically aimed at an artist with a track record of working collaboratively with communities of place or interest in the context of cultural diversity. The bursary of €10,000 provides the selected artist with time and resources to carry out research and to reflect and engage with and reflect on their practice. More particularly, it allows the artist to consider key questions associated with c ultural diversity using collaborative methodologies.

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