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Craft Makers Award: North East Scotland

Craft Makers Award

Aberdeenshire Council has established the ‘Craft Makers Award: North East Scotland’ in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council to support local makers in their creative development and encourage innovative professional practice.

If you are a craft maker living in Aberdeenshire or Aberdeen City and want to explore new ways of working, gain new skills or improve your professional practice then this award scheme may be able to assist you. The priority of the fund is to support quality projects and training opportunities for makers active in all forms of contemporary crafts.

The new scheme adheres to the Scottish Arts Council definition of crafts and is principally concerned with contemporary creative work conceived, designed and made by individual practitioners in ceramics, furniture and wood, glass, jewellery and metalwork, lettering, musical instruments, textiles and basket-making.

Awards of up to £1,000 are available and the total budget for the period 2008/2009 is £9,000.

The deadline for applications is Thursday 13 November 2008.

Submissions will be assessed by a panel of experts who will consider a range of factors including the quality of the applicant’s work, the likely benefit that will be gained, the clarity of the submission, value for money and the quality of information supporting the application.

The Awards Panel will meet within three weeks of the deadline date and applicants will receive notification of its decision by early December 2008.

Application Form & Guidance Notes

For an application form and guidance notes please download the following:

Award Contact

For further information about the application form, guidelines and deadlines please contact:

Julie Bisset
Arts Development Team
Aberdeenshire Council
Duff House
Banff
AB45 3SX
Tel. 01261 815989
Email. julie.bisset@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Aberdeenshire Arts Contacts

If you would like to contact of the Aberdeenshire Council Arts Development Team please go to our contacts section or visit the Aberdeenshire Arts website.