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Over an eighteen month period Common Ground and Create undertook an action research project - Connect Mentoring Programme - to examine mentoring for collaborative and participative arts. As a result of the research findings Common Ground and Create are administering two mentoring awards available to artists working in collaborative/participative arts in the specific context areas: Arts and Health and Cultural Diversity.
Deadlines for applications Wednesday August 4, at 5pm. Applications to be received by post to Create, Mentoring Award, 10/11 Earl Street South, Dublin 8
Arts and Health Mentoring Award - €1,000
The mentoring award is open to artists, across all art forms, working collaboratively in health care contexts. The award is intended to support the establishment and development of mentoring support with a named mentor. Eligible applicants will need to describe arts and health practice which is of a collaborative nature - i.e. work produced with staff, service users and/or families in a health care setting. This seed funding will not be available to support mentoring in arts and health where the practice prioritises therapeutic outcomes.
Application Criteria
- Project Description - 500 word description of current arts project detailing artistic aims and objectives and collaboration with healthcare staff, service users and/or families.
- Mentoring Needs - 300 word description of identified mentoring needs indicating how mentoring support would assist skills and practice development
- CV of mentee, and examples of art work(s)
- CV of mentor
- Letter of agreement from mentor
- Budget
- Schedule and framework of the proposed mentoring relationship over a minimum 6 month period.
Cultural Diversity Mentoring Award - €1,000
The mentoring award is open to artists, across all art forms, working collaboratively in culturally diverse contexts. The award is intended to support the establishment and development of mentoring support with a named mentor. Eligible applicants will need to describe collaborative/participative arts practice produced with communities of place and/or interest where the focus of interest is cultural diversity. This seed funding is not to support the facilitation of international exchange, where either the mentor or mentee is not formally resident in Ireland.
Application Criteria
- Project Description - 500 word description of current arts project detailing artistic aims and objectives and collaboration with healthcare staff, service users and/or families.
- Mentoring Needs - 300 word description of identified mentoring needs indicating how mentoring support would assist skills and practice development
- CV of mentee, and examples of art work(s)
- CV of mentor
- Letter of agreement from mentor
- Budget
- Schedule and framework of the proposed mentoring relationship over a minimum 6 month period.
The Connect Mentoring Programme is an Arts Council funded initiative
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