The Arts Council is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2020 Visual Artists Workspace scheme.

The Arts Council is delighted to announce that it has added 19 new works to its Collection which will be seen by audiences across the country. The artists whose work has now been added to the Collection are Sven Anderson, Eamon Doyle, Rachel Fallon, Ruth Le Gear, Marielle MacLeman, Vukašin Nedeljković, Séamus Nolan, Miriam O’Connor, Doireann O’Malley and Vagabond Reviews.

The Arts Council is delighted to announce the appointment of writer, Ciara Ní É, as Irish-Language Writer-in-Residence for the academic year 2020. The position is funded jointly by The Arts Council and DCU.

Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, will hold its 41^st General Assembly on Thursday 7 May 2020 in the O’Reilly Hall, University College Dublin, Belfield Campus in partnership with UCD College of Arts and Humanities and the School of English, Drama and Film.

A partnership between The Arts Council/An Chomhlairle Ealaíon & MA Festive Arts (University of Limerick).

TG4 and the Arts Council are delighted to announce a new season of ilDÁNA 2020 / 2021.

 The Arts Council is holding a series of conversations on Culture Night in the New Year, which will take place in Dublin, Cork and Galway.

DCU in partnership with the Arts Council is offering an exciting and unique residency opportunity to a professional visual artist.

 The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has launched a public consultation phase for a new National Policy on Architecture.

Having successfully delivered the first phase of the new RAISE capacity building programme, we are delighted to confirm that the RAISE Phase 2 Expression of Interest process is open now.

The deadline for the next round of the Arts Council's Bursary Awards is Thursday, 30 January 2020 at 5.30pm

The window for making an application opens on Tuesday, 17 December 2019.

Creative Schools/Scoileanna Ildánacha – Invite applications from schools across Ireland.

Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools are delighted to announce that applications for schools will open 18 February with a deadline of 17:30, Thursday 19 March 2020.  

The deadline for the Young Ensembles Scheme is Thursday 13 February 2020 at 5:30pm. The primary purpose of the Young Ensembles Scheme is to support groups of young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four to create or critically engage with ambitious and original work together in any artform. The scheme has two strands.

The Arts Council and Arts & Disability Ireland announce the 2020 Arts and Disability Connect funding scheme for artists with disabilities.

2020 is going to be a very busy year for the Creative Europe Desk – Culture Office

with events planned with a focus on Architecture, the Visual Arts, Theatre, Gender and Diversity, Heritage and policy areas.

“Strengthening cultural cooperation with and competiveness of cultural and creative industries in the Western Balkans” 

The Arts Council's Equality, Human Rights and Diversity (EHRD) Policy was launched in March 2019, at the 'Places Matter' conference in NUIG.   This is a priority policy for the Arts Council, ensuring the arts sector is an inclusive space for everyone.