Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) 2022-23

Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) offers small grants to visual artists and craft makers for their creative development at all stages of their career.

 

These awards are supported by Creative Scotland through funding from the National Lottery in partnership with Live Borders, Dumfries & Galloway Council, DG Unlimited and Upland.

The fund is open to Visual Artists /Craft Makers who can demonstrate a commitment to developing their creative practice and who are living or working or maintaining a studio space within the Local Authority area to which they are applying.

The next deadline will be Tuesday 25 October 2022 at 5pm with a second deadline on Tuesday 7 February 2023

 

The scheme is for individual artists and makers living and working in the Scottish Borders or Dumfries and Galloway. Applicants must be able to demonstrate a commitment to their work – whether they are at an early or established stage of their practice – and to advancing their skills and ideas.

Funds available  

The VACMA scheme offers two levels of bursaries, you should apply for the one that best suits your situation.

• Bursaries of £750 – For applicants that have been practising for over 5 years, regardless of whether they have gone through formal education or not
• Early-career bursaries of £500 – For applicants that have less than 5 years’ experience outside of education/training (graduated in 2017 or later) or that have not studied art formally but have been practising as an artist for up to 5 years.

Applicants can apply for 100% of the total cost of their project – ie no match/in kind is required.

Deadlines:    5pm, Tuesday 25th October 2022 and 5pm, Tuesday 7 February 2023

For more information and to download application form and guidance docs please go to link here.