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18 May 09
Welcome to the ArtLinks e-Newsletter
A regular Art News and Information Bulletin from the participating ArtLinks Partner Counties: Co Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford & Wicklow
Hi Everyone,
This month we celebrate the third group of creative practitioners selected by an independent panel for the five annual ArtLinks €5,000 Bursaries. We wish to warmly congratulate the successful recipients: Gwen Wilkinson (Co. Carlow, Visual Arts), Tunde Toth (Co. Kilkenny, Visual Arts), Corina Duyn (Co. Waterford, Literature), Sharanne Long (Co. Wexford, Visual Arts) and Annette Cleary (Co. Wicklow, Music) on the excellent standard of proposals submitted but also acknowledge all the hard work that goes into every submission, by all those who applied (see more about this year's Bursary recipients below). Each County Arts Officer is aware of all their Counties' applicants so do be encouraged that you have highlighted your work and ambitions, and whatever you do, do keep applying for arts opportunities. Success in the arts, and I can see it in all the Bursary recipients I have met and followed over the years, is always a matter of hard work, professionalism and a never give up attitude.
We are almost through a very successful Spring ArtLinks series of courses, some with our new partner organisations and more course notes have been added to our growing ArtLinks Slideshow Archive. We recently introduced a new paperless online course evaluation system which is allowing us to collect your needs/feedback more effectively. In the near future ArtLinks will post an ongoing, online ArtLinks poll/survey on the website to assess the current needs of its members in consultation with needs identified by each Countie's Arts Office. Many of the important strands identified by the wider arts community at the original Exchange Day in 2006 are being delivered, but we need more input from all of you in the ArtLinks community on your specific needs in these very challenging times.
I was reading a recent Oireachtas Art meeting report and apparently more people in engage in the Arts than the GAA and undoubtedly the Arts will be an important source of new inspiration in the times ahead. Yet all of us actively involved in the Arts need to be aware to continue to participate and engage even more so with all the wonderful institutions, community arts programmes, festivals and events that have been developed over the last decade.
So I'm going to end with a challenge to all ArtLinks members who have access to the Internet. I was at a talk recently led by careers advisors and also by social media expert Krishna De (she helped organise previous Podcamps/Creative Camps in Kilkenny) on how to survive these changing economic times. Krishna's main message was the greatest strength in these uncertain times will be down to the networks of support we create, both on and off-line and how we professionally profile our skills/strengths. While many people have joined ArtLinks, the huge potential for online networking and sharing of information/skills has not been realised by the majority of ArtLinks members. I and Arts Office staff get lots of questions from members asking to identify others with certain art skills, studio spaces, exhibition venues, equipment, local arts information. Clearly we can't know everything and from my vantage point I know there is a huge wealth of untapped knowledge in the ArtLinks community itself but we have to start telling others about ourselves and our activities. So to get things moving I'm inviting you all to post a notice on the ArtLinks.ie calendar, forum or noticeboard, just once a month! So circle a date on your calendar and post your news/course info/your call for volunteers. Imagine if we all did this small step how powerful this network could be for all of us. And do all keep your public ArtLinks Profile Page up to date too!
Warm regards,
Cathy Fitzgerald
ArtLinks Director and Member
PS A tip! Putting an item on the forum will get noticed quickly as new items all appear on the home page.
PPS Offline networking see ArtLinks News:
1. ArtLinks member, Conor O'Leary for Eigse 09 will be leading a Rural Arts Network seminar in Co. Carlow,
2. The Festivals Forum,
in association with the County Wexford Community Forum, will take place this
Tuesday, 19th May 2009 at Wexford Opera House. The event takes
place from 10 am until 4 pm and provides a forum for discussion for community
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The 2009 ArtLinks Bursary
recipients are:
Co. Carlow Gwen Wilkinson
Visual
Art
 County Carlow recipient, Gwen Wilkinson, studied photography at Griffith College Dublin in
2004, and has steadily worked towards building a strong career as a documentary
photographer. Building an impressive portfolio of in-depth social commentary through
the medium of black and white photography and hand developed prints, she has travelled
to rural communities and their festivals in far-flung corners of the world; Spain (A Rapa
das Bestas, 2005, exhibited Watergate Gallery, Kilkenny), Mongolia (this
project was selected for Eigse 2007 Platform 059), and more recently Argentina,
in which she self-published a limited edition photography catalogue Soy de Campo - I am from the Country (2008). Her proposed project for the ArtLinks Bursary
is to document rural communities in the south Carlow/Wexford border region,
with a following exhibition and catalogue, and the intention to submit work to
both the UK
Source Photographic Review and the National Geographic All Roads Festival 2010.
Gwen's website
is http://gwenwilkinson.wordpress.com
Co. Kilkenny Tunde Toth Visual Art
 County Kilkenny recipient, Tunde Toth, is
a well known figure for her fibre and paper artworks and her contribution to
the arts locally as a facilitator in her former gallery, Kozo Gallery in
Thomastown. She has and continues to offer many textile and fibre art courses
for adults and children in County
Kilkenny and beyond (see www.kozogallery.com). The Bursary will chiefly assist Tunde's
professional development; she recently was invited to participate in the 20th
International Association of Hand Paper makers and Paper Artists Congress in Tasmania, Australia
to both exhibit, lead workshops, and research developments in this area. The
Bursary will enable Tunde to build on her recent experiences to create a new
participatory body of work which uses organic materials, references the local
environment and ultimately engages others in this unique artform.
On receiving
the ArtLinks Bursary from Kilkenny Arts Officer, Mary Butler, Tunde said, 'she
is very excited and looking forward to the process of completing this project.'
Mary Butler added 'that is a great
endorsement of Tunde's work and it was wonderful to tell her on her return from
Tasmania that
she was to receive this Bursary Award'.
Co. Wexford Sharanne Long
Visual Art
 Sharanne
is a graduate of the Wexford Campus, IT Carlow
with a BA in Fine Art. She intends to
use the Bursary Award to help fund a new, unique work, a documentary
installation combining literature, photographs and a DVD in a book. The work draws on Sharanne's own experiences
and is based on people living in her local community. She has previously held a
number of exhibitions around the country and has a wealth of experience working
in her chosen field. Speaking
about the award, County Arts Officer Rosaleen Molloy commented, "Wexford County
Council is delighted to be in a position to award this bursary to Sharanne Long
in supporting her practice. ArtLinks has
been a great success and in just two years it has proven to be an invaluable
arts resource for thousands of artists in the five-county region". See Sharanne's ArtLinks Profile page here.
Co. Wicklow Annette Cleary
Music
 County Wicklow recipient, Annette Cleary cellist, studied at the Royal Irish
Academy of Music with
Coral Bognuda, Ivan Andrews and Aisling Drury-Byrne. At the age of sixteen, she won an Arts Council grant to
study with Antonio Janigro at the Mozartium in Salzburg.
Other teachers she has studied under there, included Andre Navarra, Paul
Tortelier and Eleonore Schoenfeld. Her
studies then brought her to California
State University,
Fresno on scholarship where she graduated with a
BA in Music Performance (magna cum laud), following this she received a further
scholarship to study at the University
of Southern California,
where she graduated with a masters.
While in the US,
she received numerous awards for her performance and academic work including
the Bell T Richie Award, the Los Angeles Young Artists Competition, the President's
Prize, and the National Collegiate Music Award.
Annette also received a grant to pursue additional post-graduate study
at the Stuttgart Hochschule fur Musik where she graduated with a K.A 1st
Class qualification. At present, she teaches at the Royal Irish
Academy of Music where
she is also pursuing a Doctorate Degree with Denise Neary, and as part of that
current research has presented a paper at the recent Society of Musicology in
Ireland Conference at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Annette also plays as guest principal with
the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.
On receiving
the ArtLinks Bursary from Arts Officer, Jenny Sherwin, Annette said, 'I am
delighted to be a recipient of this award, which will enable me to work on my
doctoral studies and performance projects over the forthcoming year.' See Annette's ArtLinks Profile page here
Co. Waterford Corina Duyn
Literature
 County Waterford recipient, Corina Duyn, has recently been studying 'Starting to Write' course
through the Open College of Arts and is the previous recipient of both County Waterford
and Arts and Disability Awards. The Co. Waterford ArtLinks Bursary will allow
Corina to build on her reputation that she gained in publishing her first book
of poetry and art; Hatched, a Creative
Journey through M.E. and will enable
her to further her career as a writer, illustrator and book artist. Corina
intends to write two volumes in a series of fables, The Cirrus Chronicles, while also creating unique 3D models of the
main characters to be used as the basis of photographic illustrations as well
as accompanying unique Artists Scroll Books. The ArtLinks Bursary will assist
Corina in the publishing and printing of the books, and help with the launch,
promotion and publicity. Corina's website is http://www.littlewings.org
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ArtLinks Professional Development
Spring 2009 Courses added to the online ArtLinks Archive
We are nearing the end of our current courses and the new course notes are available as online slideshows now in the growing ArtLinks Archive. 
Full List of Course notes in the ArtLinks Archive, CLICK HERE
Funding/Opportunities
* Applying for Funding
* Approaching Galleries & Proposal Writing for Visual Artists
* Engaging in Public Art Commissions
>> NEW Earning Opportunities for Visual Artists
Website Options for Arts Practitioners
* Getting your Visual Work Online Today
* Blogging for the Arts Beginners
>> NEW Blogging for the Arts - Intermediate
Business Skills for Arts Practitioners
>> NEW Making a Business of your Art - Visual Art
* Introduction To Self Employment & Tax Exemption
* Marketing your Creative Work (writing your Artist's Statement & CV for visual artists)
* Traditional Irish Singing Workshop
* Getting Ahead in the Music Industry
Theatre
*Pro-Am Theatre Skills Workshop
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