Open Call 2024 is now closed. Information on successful applications HERE.
EcoArt is a grassroots charity based in Southwest Scotland connecting community, art and sustainability. EcoArt embraces the transformational power of art for social and environmental justice and is committed to projects that support and initiate change.
We want to support bold new creative work that widens, deepens and re-sites the conversation around the environment and our complex relationship with it and that leads to positive change for our shared future.
Creative proposals are invited from individuals, collaborative partnerships or other collectives.
Proposals can be for:
-a complete project
-co-funding
-seed-funding
-development funding
-residencies
-research
-or any combination of the above.
EcoArt is interested in exploring new ways of engaging a broad public with environmental issues and will prioritise proposals that centre participation.
EcoArt is open to proposals from interdisciplinary collaborations as we feel that artists are uniquely positioned to work with a range of knowledge bases. We are keen to develop work with artists, scientists, activists and people with different kinds of knowledge, for example artists working with scientists, environmental projects, researchers or practitioners from other disciplines.
EcoArt is also interested in assisting in the development of ideas for projects, especially from young people, and in using its networks to help make contacts between people looking for creative collaborations.
EcoArt will consider projects covering any area of Scotland but has a special interest in proposals involving Dumfries and Galloway. We are open to considering longer term projects that require funds over a number of years.
Creative proposals could consider exploring:
Land use
Food production
Waterways
Social engagement with climate change
Alternatives to the growth based economy
Environmental justice
Pollution and waste
Possible futures
…or anything else
Funds Available:
EcoArt has supported a number of artworks and projects since our inception 3 years ago, however this is our first open call. Our total budget is £20,000 in the year 2024/25 which we expect to share across different projects at different scales.
Stage 1:
Please send the following project information marked ‘Funding’ to: info@ecoartcharity.org or by post to EcoArt SCIO, 1 Castle St, Kirkcudbright DG64JA
1. Details of applicant/s, names, addresses.
2. Project outline, up to 700 words, including; timescale, location, etc.
3. Draft budget, including other possible funders. This should include a fee (at standard Scottish Artist Union rates) materials, insurance, travel etc.
4. Examples of previous work in whatever format is suitable for your work, eg. PDF portfolio, website etc
5. CVs.
6. What you may need from EcoArt, if anything, beyond funding.
Note: please do not overload your proposal with too much information at this stage. For instance, in the case of a collective, CVs and portfolio from principal applicants only.
Please let us know if you have any access requirements that would help in applying for this open call.
If you have any questions please e mail: jo@ecoartcharity.org
Date for applications: 30th June 2024. Midnight.
Stage 2
EcoArt will make a shortlist and those applicants will be asked to meet EcoArt trustees to consider their project in further detail.
More Information
At a time when human activity is the dominant influence on the environment, we face challenges that critically threaten the life of our planet. EcoArt is passionate about opening up ways to think differently about the world and sees using art as having the capacity to foster a deeper understanding of and connection to the natural world, explore social and environmental questions, provoke debate, and test out alternative ways of learning.
We acknowledge that the ecological crisis is a result of the interplay between power and profit driven systems and that some communities are disproportionately affected. We are keen to support work that takes an inter-sectorial approach, recognising and throwing light on environmental injustices.
EcoArt is open to supporting collaborations between artists, academics, scientists, activists and people with different kinds of knowledge. Tackling environmental injustice can involve bringing together diverse knowledge areas such as understandings of systemic inequalities and contemporary and historical cultural contexts as well as environmental knowledge. EcoArt supports interdisciplinary creative work that responds to environmental challenges.
EcoArt wishes to support a number of creative projects that respond to a broad range of ecological issues, raising awareness and leading to action at a local, national or international level. We want to support bold new creative work that engages with social and environmental justice, leading to positive change for our shared future.
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