Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award
VACMA
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.
VACMA offers a £500 Early-Career Bursary is for artists and makers that have been practicing for less than 5 years, and a £1,000 Bursary is for artists and makers who have been practicing for over 5 years, regardless of whether they have gone through formal education or not.
The guidelines for the scheme are available to download on this page, they are also available in BSL here.
Autumn deadline: 5pm, 22 October 2024
Winter deadline: 5pm, 4 February 2025
VACMA is supported by Creative Scotland through funding from the National Lottery. As such a VACMA bursary cannot be used as partnership funding for any other Creative Scotland funding programmes.
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.
Should an applicant wish to discuss any aspect of submitting an application – this is strongly recommended – please contact Jane Somers (Scottish Borders) or Amy Marletta (Dumfries and Galloway):
Jane Somers
Live Borders Arts & Creativity
Email: artservice@LiveBorders1.org.uk
Amy Marletta
Creative Director, Upland
Tel: 07871201473
Email: amy@weareupland.com
Applicants from both the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway must submit their applications to Live Borders Arts & Creativity: artservice@liveborders1.org.uk.
