FUTURE MAKERS AWARDS OPEN FOR DESIGN AND CRAFT STUDENTS
DESIGN AND craft students and emerging artists can now apply for funding through a Design & Crafts Council of Ireland initiative.
Last year, ceramicist Chloë Dowds from Newtownmountkennedy received Residency Support in the Emerging Practitioner category.
‘I applied to help with my ceramics residency to the Zentrum Fur Keramik in Berlin, Germany,’ she said. ‘ The award helped me greatly as this was an expensive project to undertake. It allowed me to experiment with a different clay which I had never used before and which proved to be very expensive.’
The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) Future Makers Awards & Supports programme for 2018 has a prize fund totalling €23,500.
Future Makers Awards & Supports is one of Europe’s largest prize-funded award programmes for students and emerging makers, rewarding the next generation of Irish creatives and assisting them as they develop a career in the design and craft industry.
It is free to enter and the closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, April 13.
Entries will be assessed by a judging panel comprising Claudia Casali, Director of International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy, and Philip Hamilton, Creative Director of Perch, Dublin. The panel will be chaired by DCCoI’s education manager, Fiona Byrne.
Karen Hennessy, chief executive of the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, said: ‘We are committed to supporting and nurturing emerging designers and makers so that they can hone their skills, raise the profile of their work and establish careers in their chosen field.’
For more details visit www.futuremakers. ie/categories.