Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award, Argyll and Bute 2024/25

The 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).   

Downloads

Guidance for applicants

FAQs Artist Checklist

Application Form

Equalities Monitoring Form

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 2024

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.

• 25 September 2024
• 14 January 2025

CHARTS is an Argyll and Bute wide, member-network. Set-up to promote the sector and increase opportunities, your membership is important to us and free of charge. If you haven't already registered for membership, please see: http://www.chartsargyllandisles.org for more information or support with creating and building your profile on our website. 

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