Post by maree on Aug 13, 2008 16:24:32 GMT 1
Hazel Hughson of Shetland Arts has kindly passed this information onto the NCDC, so I thought I'd add it here incase anyone in Northmavine could take advantage of the fund. Get in touch with the NCDC office if you'd like more info on how to apply.
e-mail maree@northmavine.com phone 544222
Working Up-2
Crafts Maker Awards:Shetland,
in partnership with Scottish Arts Council.2008/09
Working Up-2 is a grant scheme for individual craft makers. It is a partnership between Shetland Arts and the Scottish Arts Council and is supported by the Shetland Islands Council. The aim is to enhance the creative and professional skills of full-time and part-time Shetland craft makers, through awarding small grants to part-fund individuals’ own development projects.
Applications: Application deadlines are 1st September and 27th October 2008. Successful applicants can receive grant awards from £75 to £1000 and may receive only one award within the period of the scheme. Unsuccessful applicants can re-apply for the second deadline. It may not be possible to fund all applications from the limited fund of £10,000. For a pre-application meeting call Shetland Arts on 01595 74 3843
Guidelines: Eligible applicants must be working full-time, or part-time over 16 hours per week, as a craft maker or designer/maker, currently producing quality work for sale or exhibition. The applicant is required to show a commitment to advancing his/her creative and professional skills.
Working Up-2 will award small grants to part -fund an applicant’s own development project up to 70% of the total project costs. Applicants must provide their own minimum cash contribution of 10% of total project costs. Craft makers reapplying after being successful in the pilot Working Up scheme of 2006/07 would be expected to show in their application, a new and clear progression from their first award. For additional funding applicants can apply to any agency except Shetland Islands Council as they are matched funders of Working Up-2 .
Working Up-2 is designed for individuals, developing professionally in a locality which is geographically distanced from some centres of inspirational influences. Applicants will know which new skills or new influences they need for their own professional and creative development and should apply with their own plan or project. Applications should include a timetable showing start and end dates, explain the project research and confirm if there is agreement by proposed instructors or collaborators. Budget costs and income should be accurate. Projects should have realistic and achievable aims and demonstrable results. The following development strands could be considered:
- exploring a new material or process
- an experience of new craft influences outside Shetland by visiting an exhibition, a collection,
or a craft maker.
- a period of learning an indigenous skill with a local expert to develop contemporary work.
- a short 1-to-1 course in a specific additional skill or process, outside or within Shetland.
- a programme of sharing skills collaboratively 1-to-1 within Shetland.
- a set time out of the normal work routine for closed studio time to work up a new direction or
making process.
- a focussed time out for improving visual presentation skills.
- time out to improve visual representation for blogs or websites.
Criteria:
Applications will be assessed against the following criteria by a panel of three; a Trustee of Shetland Arts, an independent designer/maker, and a funding advisor. Shetland Arts’ Craft Officer will assist at panel meetings as a non-voting member. The decision of the assessment panel will be final.
Criteria for application assessment are:
- the artistic quality of current work
- evidence of research
- evidence of commitment to enhanced practice
- evidence of current craft skills
- assessment of ability to develop
- the degree of benefit to the applicants professional skills
- potential for the applicants creative and artistic development
- relevance to their career or personal development plans
- realistic and achievable aims within the timetable
- value for money
Priority: will be given but not exclusively to applicants in the early stages of their careers and those making new forms of indigenous craft ; and to projects which clearly raise standards of creativity, design development and quality in contemporary craft made in Shetland.
Collaborative Projects: may be applied for jointly by a partnership, with one individual taking responsibility for managing the project and grant award. Occasional collaborative partners may apply separately, indicating the collaboration, and show their own proportion of budget costs.
Craft: is defined as ‘contemporary creative work, conceived, designed and made by individuals.’ Indigenous crafts are defined as ‘creative work based on handed down skills such as basketmaking, woodworking and textiles, conceived, designed and made by individuals’.
Exclusions: Scottish Arts Council exclusions apply to this scheme which is not open to architects or students in formal education at the date of making the application; or for crafts based on the production of kits; the assemblage of ,or decoration of bought-in components; conservation, restoration or building crafts; courses in business management; prolonging study, or for formal education courses. Printmaking and graphic design are also exempt. Craft makers working at a professional level undertaking a part-time course may be considered depending on the nature of their course. Projects related to courses of formal education cannot be funded through the Working Up -2 scheme. We will only fund projects which are time limited and for a specific purpose as entered in the application form.
Payment of grant : Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged by letter. Successful applicants will receive an award letter and within 10 days of grant approval will receive payment by cheque of 90% of the Working Up -2 grant award. The project must not have started before the agreed start date. The project start date is the start of preparatory work and commitments, financial and otherwise towards undertaking the whole project
Reporting: The final 10% of grant is normally awarded on receipt of a written report. For Working Up-2 it will be paid after a short informal meeting with each successful applicant, within an agreed timescale , to assess the effectiveness of the support given through the grant award scheme. For the meeting, an informal and returnable folio, or collection of working materials are required , to show experimentation or new directions of work; and to show that the project has been carried out according to grant conditions. For example: receipts, visual research material, images, working drawings, sketchbooks, sample pieces, prototypes, works in progress and a signed statement in the case of indigenous craft skills mentoring.
Publicity : The Working Up -2 scheme and successful craft developments may be included in Shetland Arts marketing and promotion materials and in Annual Reports.
Evaluation: As Working Up -2 is a funded scheme we will ask you to take part in an evaluation process if your application is successful.
Shetland Arts, Toll Clock Centre, Lerwick, Shetland. ZE1 0PE. 01595 74 3843
e-mail maree@northmavine.com phone 544222
Working Up-2
Crafts Maker Awards:Shetland,
in partnership with Scottish Arts Council.2008/09
Working Up-2 is a grant scheme for individual craft makers. It is a partnership between Shetland Arts and the Scottish Arts Council and is supported by the Shetland Islands Council. The aim is to enhance the creative and professional skills of full-time and part-time Shetland craft makers, through awarding small grants to part-fund individuals’ own development projects.
Applications: Application deadlines are 1st September and 27th October 2008. Successful applicants can receive grant awards from £75 to £1000 and may receive only one award within the period of the scheme. Unsuccessful applicants can re-apply for the second deadline. It may not be possible to fund all applications from the limited fund of £10,000. For a pre-application meeting call Shetland Arts on 01595 74 3843
Guidelines: Eligible applicants must be working full-time, or part-time over 16 hours per week, as a craft maker or designer/maker, currently producing quality work for sale or exhibition. The applicant is required to show a commitment to advancing his/her creative and professional skills.
Working Up-2 will award small grants to part -fund an applicant’s own development project up to 70% of the total project costs. Applicants must provide their own minimum cash contribution of 10% of total project costs. Craft makers reapplying after being successful in the pilot Working Up scheme of 2006/07 would be expected to show in their application, a new and clear progression from their first award. For additional funding applicants can apply to any agency except Shetland Islands Council as they are matched funders of Working Up-2 .
Working Up-2 is designed for individuals, developing professionally in a locality which is geographically distanced from some centres of inspirational influences. Applicants will know which new skills or new influences they need for their own professional and creative development and should apply with their own plan or project. Applications should include a timetable showing start and end dates, explain the project research and confirm if there is agreement by proposed instructors or collaborators. Budget costs and income should be accurate. Projects should have realistic and achievable aims and demonstrable results. The following development strands could be considered:
- exploring a new material or process
- an experience of new craft influences outside Shetland by visiting an exhibition, a collection,
or a craft maker.
- a period of learning an indigenous skill with a local expert to develop contemporary work.
- a short 1-to-1 course in a specific additional skill or process, outside or within Shetland.
- a programme of sharing skills collaboratively 1-to-1 within Shetland.
- a set time out of the normal work routine for closed studio time to work up a new direction or
making process.
- a focussed time out for improving visual presentation skills.
- time out to improve visual representation for blogs or websites.
Criteria:
Applications will be assessed against the following criteria by a panel of three; a Trustee of Shetland Arts, an independent designer/maker, and a funding advisor. Shetland Arts’ Craft Officer will assist at panel meetings as a non-voting member. The decision of the assessment panel will be final.
Criteria for application assessment are:
- the artistic quality of current work
- evidence of research
- evidence of commitment to enhanced practice
- evidence of current craft skills
- assessment of ability to develop
- the degree of benefit to the applicants professional skills
- potential for the applicants creative and artistic development
- relevance to their career or personal development plans
- realistic and achievable aims within the timetable
- value for money
Priority: will be given but not exclusively to applicants in the early stages of their careers and those making new forms of indigenous craft ; and to projects which clearly raise standards of creativity, design development and quality in contemporary craft made in Shetland.
Collaborative Projects: may be applied for jointly by a partnership, with one individual taking responsibility for managing the project and grant award. Occasional collaborative partners may apply separately, indicating the collaboration, and show their own proportion of budget costs.
Craft: is defined as ‘contemporary creative work, conceived, designed and made by individuals.’ Indigenous crafts are defined as ‘creative work based on handed down skills such as basketmaking, woodworking and textiles, conceived, designed and made by individuals’.
Exclusions: Scottish Arts Council exclusions apply to this scheme which is not open to architects or students in formal education at the date of making the application; or for crafts based on the production of kits; the assemblage of ,or decoration of bought-in components; conservation, restoration or building crafts; courses in business management; prolonging study, or for formal education courses. Printmaking and graphic design are also exempt. Craft makers working at a professional level undertaking a part-time course may be considered depending on the nature of their course. Projects related to courses of formal education cannot be funded through the Working Up -2 scheme. We will only fund projects which are time limited and for a specific purpose as entered in the application form.
Payment of grant : Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged by letter. Successful applicants will receive an award letter and within 10 days of grant approval will receive payment by cheque of 90% of the Working Up -2 grant award. The project must not have started before the agreed start date. The project start date is the start of preparatory work and commitments, financial and otherwise towards undertaking the whole project
Reporting: The final 10% of grant is normally awarded on receipt of a written report. For Working Up-2 it will be paid after a short informal meeting with each successful applicant, within an agreed timescale , to assess the effectiveness of the support given through the grant award scheme. For the meeting, an informal and returnable folio, or collection of working materials are required , to show experimentation or new directions of work; and to show that the project has been carried out according to grant conditions. For example: receipts, visual research material, images, working drawings, sketchbooks, sample pieces, prototypes, works in progress and a signed statement in the case of indigenous craft skills mentoring.
Publicity : The Working Up -2 scheme and successful craft developments may be included in Shetland Arts marketing and promotion materials and in Annual Reports.
Evaluation: As Working Up -2 is a funded scheme we will ask you to take part in an evaluation process if your application is successful.
Shetland Arts, Toll Clock Centre, Lerwick, Shetland. ZE1 0PE. 01595 74 3843