Wellcome Trust - Arts Awards
Arts Awards support the creation of new artistic work that critically engages artists and audiences with biomedical science. We strive to work with all art forms and the diverse community we support includes artists, scientists, curators, writers, academics, producers, directors and education officers.
We believe that artists have a distinct approach to understanding and communicating ideas that can illuminate and challenge perceptions within society. We are convinced therefore that the arts have an invaluable role to play in engaging the public with biomedical science.
Arts Awards encourage creative collaborations between art and science. The Wellcome Trust believes that this exchange generates powerful, personal and visceral art and inspires interdisciplinary research and practice that brings benefits to artists and scientists alike.
You can apply for funding at two levels:
Small Arts Awards
This scheme funds new artistic projects that enable artists and audiences to explore health research. These awards offer support up to £40,000.
Scheme at a glance
Project stage: Research and development, Production and project delivery
Where your audience is: UK, Republic of Ireland
Level of funding: Up to £40,000
Duration of funding: Up to 3 years
Small Arts Awards are open to:
- individuals, eg artists, producers and curators
- organisations, eg companies, community groups and universities.
Your project team should include:
- a professional artist
- a researcher with expertise in the subject you’re exploring, eg a research scientist, health professional, ethicist or medical historian.
In most cases, your team and the primary public audience should be based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.
Your proposal must be to develop a new artistic work that explores health research. We support projects during research and development and/or final development and delivery.
Eligible projects will:
- develop high-quality, imaginative artistic practice
- bring together artists and scientists in collaborative relationships
- stimulate debate about health research and the history of medicine
- encourage new insights into health research and its social, cultural and ethical effects, rather than simply illustrating it
- reach and engage diverse audiences.
New guidelines for funding to be announced in November 2016
www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Funding-schemes/Arts-Awards/index.htm
