Funding: Arts Council Markievicz Award

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Applications are open for the Arts Council Markievicz Award and is open to artists from across all artforms including Music and Young People, Children and Education.

The Markievicz Award was established to honour Constance de Markievicz – herself an artist – as the first woman to be elected to Parliament and appointed to Cabinet and is intended to:

  • provide support for artists from all backgrounds and genres to buy time and space in order to develop new work that reflects on the role of women in the period covered by the decade of centenaries 2012–2023 and beyond.

Markievicz Award recipients will receive €25,000, and awards will be made to up to ten applicants this year. Joint applications are welcomed.

The award is administered by the Arts Council on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and is open via a public call to artists working in all arts genres supported by the Arts Council.

Closing date for applications is 5.30pm, Thursday, 10 February 2022.

For further information and application details please see artscouncil.ie.