Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award, Argyll and Bute 2024/25
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Awards and CompetitionsDeadline Date
04/02/2025The Visual Artist and Craft Makers Awards (VACMA) offer small grants to visual artists and craft makers for their creative development at all stages of their careers. This includes activities such as mentoring and skills development, testing new ideas, experimenting with sustainable and renewable materials, purchasing necessary equipment, and residencies tailored to the artist’s creative and professional development.
Established by Creative Scotland, these partnerships provide support at a local level and work with local panels to offer funds to practitioners at all stages of their careers who have demonstrated a commitment to their work and to developing their practice through new work, new skills, or new opportunities.
- Bursaries of £1000.00
- Early-career bursaries of £500.00 (for applicants who have less than five years’ experience outside of education/training, graduated in 2016 or later, or who have not studied art formally but have been practising as an artist for up to five years).
CHARTS is an Argyll and Bute wide member network designed to promote the sector and increase opportunities. Membership is free; if you haven't already registered for membership, please see: http://www.chartsargyllandisles.org
Downloads
Guidance for applicants (plain text)
For BSL and Easy Read guidance and forms, visit Creative Scotland.
How to apply
The deadline for Argyll and Bute will be 5pm, Tuesday 4 February 2025
Please submit all applications to info@chartsargyllandisles.org
For any further information, please contact info@chartsargyllandisles.org
Information Sessions
Information sessions, delivered by partner representatives and members of Creative Scotland’s Visual Arts Team, will take place on Microsoft Teams on 25 September 2024 (2-3pm) and 14 January 2025 (11am-12pm), and will be followed by a Q&A.
VACMA is supported by Creative Scotland through funding from the National Lottery in partnership with Argyll and Bute Council and made possible in Argyll and Bute by support from CHARTS.
Image: 2024 VACMA Awardee, Cat Auburn. How to Make a Miniature of the Demolition of the Eighteen Arch Ashlar Bridge at Asluj. First World War, 1917. Credit Cat Auburn, photo by Keith Hunter
 offer small grants to visual artists and craft makers for their creative development at all stages of their careers. This includes activities such as mentoring and skills development, testing new ideas, experimenting with sustainable and renewable materials, purchasing necessary equipment, and residencies tailored to the artist’s creative and professional development.</span></p>
<p><span> Established by Creative Scotland, these partnerships provide support at a local level and work with local panels to offer funds to practitioners at all stages of their careers who have demonstrated a commitment to their work and to developing their practice through new work, new skills, or new opportunities.</span><span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>Bursaries of £1000.00</span></li>
<li><span>Early-career bursaries of £500.00 (for applicants who have less than five years’ experience outside of education/training, graduated in 2016 or later, or who have not studied art formally but have been practising as an artist for up to five years). </span><span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>CHARTS is an Argyll and Bute wide member network designed to promote the sector and increase opportunities. Membership is free; if you haven't already registered for membership, please see: <a href="/sign-in/">http://www.chartsargyllandisles.org</a></strong></p>
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<h3>Downloads</h3>
<p><a rel="noopener" data-udi="umb://media/3c03bc98a0d0405eb5478940a665c0a1" href="/media/7481/vacma-24-25-guidance.pdf" target="_blank" title="VACMA 24/25 Guidance">Guidance for applicants </a></p>
<p><a rel="noopener" data-udi="umb://media/cc0066ba358b45b293776787c8aa4a0f" href="/media/7813/visual-artist-and-craft-makers-awards-2024-plain-text.docx" target="_blank" title="Visual Artist And Craft Makers Awards 2024 Plain Text">Guidance for applicants (plain text)</a></p>
<p><a rel="noopener" data-udi="umb://media/fe714cf7f4fc4f83b438f0c5f6f96dbb" href="/media/7480/vacma-24-25-artist-checklist.pdf" target="_blank" title="VACMA 24/25 Artist Checklist">FAQs Artist Checklist </a></p>
<p><a rel="noopener" data-udi="umb://media/ba238f20e2a148c587ad1819b142a8a4" href="/media/7479/vacma-application-form-2024-25-argyll-and-bute.docx" target="_blank" title="VACMA Application Form 2024 25 Argyll And Bute">Application Form </a></p>
<p><a rel="noopener" data-udi="umb://media/daccba550f3c4ba3b08e0c33015d49af" href="/media/7478/vacma-24-25-equalities-monitoring-form.doc" target="_blank" title="VACMA 24/25 Equalities Monitoring Form">Equalities Monitoring Form</a></p>
<p>For BSL and Easy Read guidance and forms, visit <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/funding-delivered-by-partners/visual-arts-and-crafts-awards" target="_blank">Creative Scotland</a>.</p>
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<h3>How to apply</h3>
<p><span>The deadline for Argyll and Bute will be <strong>5pm, Tuesday 4 February 2025</strong></span></p>
<p><span></span><span>Please submit all applications to <a href="mailto:info@chartsargyllandisles.org">info@chartsargyllandisles.org</a> </span></p>
<p><span>For any further information, please contact </span><a href="mailto:info@chartsargyllandisles.org"><span>info@chartsargyllandisles.org</span></a><span> </span></p>
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<h3 class="preamble">Information Sessions</h3>
<p>Information sessions, delivered by partner representatives and members of Creative Scotland’s Visual Arts Team, will take place on Microsoft Teams on<span> </span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_wzln4" target="_blank">25 September 2024</a><span> </span>(2-3pm) and<span> </span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_3v6nw" target="_blank">14 January 2025</a><span> </span>(11am-12pm), and will be followed by a Q&A.</p>
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<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_wzln4" target="_blank">25 September 2024</a></li>
<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_3v6nw" target="_blank">14 January 2025</a></li>
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<p>VACMA is supported by Creative Scotland through funding from the National Lottery in partnership with Argyll and Bute Council and made possible in Argyll and Bute by support from CHARTS. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Image: 2024 VACMA Awardee, Cat Auburn. How to Make a Miniature of the Demolition of the Eighteen Arch Ashlar Bridge at Asluj. First World War, 1917. Credit Cat Auburn, photo by Keith Hunter</p>
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