Visual arts notices

Dundee Visual Artists Award Scheme Dundee Visual Artists Award Scheme awards offer visual artists research and development grants of up to £1000.  The awards are open to Dundee-based artists working in any visual media. You must be able to demonstrate a commitment to your work and to advancing your skills base and ideas. Deadlines for application:  Wednesday 4 November 2009 For more information visit the Dundee Visual Artists Award Scheme website

Royal Scottish Academy Awards:  RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award Deadline: Tuesday 30 June 2009 This award of £2,000 should be used to fund travel and is open to 2009 graduates of the Fine Art Departments of the Scottish Art Schools.  Also open to students who are currently studying at post-graduate level. RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award Deadline: Tuesday 30 June 2009 This award of £2,000 should be used to fund travel and is open to 2009 graduates of the Fine Art Departments of the Scottish Art Schools.  Also open to students who are currently studying at post-graduate level. For more information please check the Scholarship & Awards section of the RSA website For application forms please email the RSA Office or call 0131 225 6671 RSA Residencies for Scotland Application deadline: Tuesday 1 September 2009 The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture (RSA) is delighted to announce the launch of its RSA Residencies for Scotland programme in collaboration with the Scottish Arts Council. With a total budget of some £45,000, the new scheme will provide funded residency opportunities with partner provider venues across Scotland enabling contemporary artists a period of research.  The Residencies will be available for periods of one week to up to six months, with monetary awards of up £5,000, and will be open to artists who are currently living and working in Scotland or are Scottish by birth and are no longer be in full-time education.  Application guidelines and a full list of participating venues are available on the Scholarship & Awards section of the RSA website

Inspire MA Curating Contemporary Art (Royal College of Art) From October 2009, the Royal College of Art's Curating Contemporary Art Department will offer a new MA for aspiring curators from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. This development of Arts Council England's Inspire initiative will offer a vocational and academic curriculum with a professional placement in a museum or gallery over two years. Inspire at the RCA will provide a unique course of postgraduate study for those aiming to train as curators of contemporary art.  A bursary of £12,000-£15,000 p.a. will be paid for each two-year studentship Closing date for completed applications: Monday 13 July 2009 For an application pack and more information please visit the Royal College of Art website

Invitation to Tender: Creative Lead for the Delhi 2010 - Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Flag Handover Ceremony Glasgow 2014 has launched a search to find the best creative talent to deliver a breathtaking vision of both city and nation at the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2010 in Delhi.  On Thursday 14 October 2010 hundreds of millions of television viewers around the world, will be treated to an introduction to Glasgow and Scotland through a feast of creativity and talent as the city formally receives the Commonwealth Games flag from India.  Glasgow 2014 has launched the search for the Creative Lead who will propose the concept, which will inspire those watching events in Delhi in 2010.  The Creative Lead will have knowledge and experience of delivering arts, cultural and creative programmes in the UK and internationally. The entire copyright of the creative concept will be assigned to Glasgow 2014 Ltd. Expressions of Interest Deadline: Thursday 16 July 2009 Tenders are invited from individuals, companies and consortia from creative, cultural, arts, production, programming, advertising and events backgrounds.   For full details on the tendering process and deadlines for completion, visit the Glasgow City Council website

Call for Proposals: Wasps Artists Studios – Hanson Street Project Space Wasps Artists’ Studios are now welcoming proposals from individuals and groups to exhibit in the Hanson Street project space in Dennistoun, east of Glasgow City Centre. The project space itself is 4,000 sq ft of exhibition space that you encounter on entering the studio building. As the building also houses 77 studio spaces, two open access workshops, the Wasps head office and a café, your work has the potential to reach different kinds of audiences.  Wasps will charge a fee for hire of the space and this money will go directly back into the maintenance and marketing of the space. Deadline for submission of proposals: Saturday 1 August 2009 If you are interested in submitting a proposal for showing in the Hanson street project space, please email Helen Moore for a full information pack.

Public Art Commissions at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum Proposals are invited to design, fabricate and install a series of public art commissions at Robert Burns’s birthplace in Alloway. The commissions, ranging from small interior interventions to larger public artworks, will form an important new addition to this iconic site.  Nine separate installations are being commissioned and the artists for each will be selected through open competition. Artists may submit proposals for one or more commissions; however appointments will be made on an installation-by-installation basis, so each proposal will be treated individually (and any costs quoted should reflect this). The competition is open to all artists, sculptors and makers. Selection of the commissioned works will be based on artistic merit, creative compatibility with the overall site development, environmental impact, sustainability and cost. Artists’ experience and demonstrable capacity to deliver a suitable work will also be taken into account.  Proposals should include budget costs and an outline treatment. Deadline for proposals: Friday 10 July 2009, 5pm For full details of the commissions, schedule of works and forms of contract and tender email Francoise Boyce  or call: 0131 243 9505 (am only).