Visual Artists News

Visual Artists Ireland Announces Get Together 2013 – Friday 28th June 2013

Visual Artists Ireland is pleased to announce that the Get Together 2013 will take place on Friday, June 28th at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin.  A day of engaged sharing, networking and information provision; the Get Together gives …

URGENT – Funding for Creative Europe Needs Your Action

We have received the following communications from our European partner Culture Action Europe concerning EU budgets for 2014 – 2020.  They are looking for our support in raising concerns about further cuts to EU budgets.
“We are getting wo…

ACNI Individual Artist Session with Visual Artists Ireland

Thursday 11th April 2013
12.30pm  in Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
(lunch provided)
The session will explore professional development for mid career artists, with a presentation from key note speaker Cecily Brennan and group discussion on how to c…

The Visual Artists Charter

The Visual Artists Charter project was initiated by VAI to address the professional relationship between artists and those that they work with. The Artists Charter takes the form of a code of practice, commonly agreed upon, which adopts principles of g…

Valerie Earley Residency Award

Visual Artists Ireland announce the creation of the Valerie Earley Residency Award for Visual Artists. Visual Artists Ireland wished to put in place a commemoration of our late friend and colleague Valerie Earley who worked with us as Membership Man…

Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists News Sheet

If you have recently been involved in a public commission, percent for art project, socially engaged project or any other form of ‘art outside the gallery’ we would like you to email us the information for publication in the May / June issue of the…

VAI ‘Introducing’ Series……F.E McWilliams Gallery & Studio

The Visual Artists Ireland ‘Introducing’ series provides artists with a great opportunity to meet gallery directors, art centre managers and curators in an informal stress free setting. The Series begins in Northern Ireland where you can join Fearg…

VAI on Cultural & Educational Panel of Nominating Bodies for Seanad Éireann Elections

We are delighted to announce that Visual Artists Ireland has been accepted on to the Cultural & Educational Panel of Nominating Bodies for Seanad Éireann elections. The Cultural and Educational Panel is one of five vocational panels that together …

Advocacy Update: Datasheet #7 Artists’ Payments Now Available

To support our ASK! HAS THE ARTIST BEEN PAID? campaign, we have updated our Advocacy Datasheets to include Datasheet #7: Artists Payments. The purpose of this document is to outline the specifics around types of payments for artists, the outline of th…

Artists’ Payments Guidelines Consultation: Preliminary Meeting: Wednesday, March 20th 2013 @ 2pm

We would like to invite interested parties to a preliminary meeting on Wednesday, 20th March 2013 at 2pm to discuss the creation of Visual Artists’ Payments Guidelines.
The meeting will take place in our offices: Visual Artists Ireland, Central H…