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DESCRIPTION
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation was created in 1991 to bring together
established international artists and emerging artists of recognized
ability, from Ireland and
abroad to live and work in North Mayo, to benefit both the artists
and the community.
Operating from the Ballinglen Centre in Ballycastle, a village in
the disadvantaged,
remote seacoast of North County Mayo, the Foundation supports serious
artists
making important work in ideal, inspiring conditions and equally it
aims to create an understanding within a rural community of the meaning
and importance of
contemporary art and artists.
The Ballinglen Foundation has brought together two groups, artists
and farmers,
who live lives of high risk and who seek to fulfill human aspiration
with their talents, perseverance and special encounters with the landscape.
Each is transformed by
their connection and each offers the other confidence to embrace the
new and
unknown. Foundation programs stimulate revitalization of a rural village
by building
on its own
inherent strengths and by fostering close connections between artists
and villagers. The Projects of the Arts Foundation have been an outstanding
success—making waves financially, spiritually, locally, nationally
and internationally.
ARTISTS IN THE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Fellowship Program, the heart of Foundation activities:
• Enables serious artists to make complete bodies
of work in supportive conditions
• Creates relationships among the more than 120 artists from around
the
world who have participated to date, and
• Offers exhibition opportunities for Fellows due
to the international contacts and
the reach of the Foundation’s
Directors.
The Fellowship Program is highly competitive. Award based, the fellowship
provides
artists with a house and a studio for periods from
four weeks to several months.
The Fellowship is unique in that it is a community-based residency.
Artists bring
family and friends with them and are encouraged to experience the
Ballycastle
community–its churches, schools, shops, pubs—and its people,
with the expectation
that this interaction will: invigorate their spirit; result in work
that reflects the
unique natural & social environment around Ballycastle; and also
inject a new,
positive spirit and economic boost into what was a despairing community.
OTHER BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION PROGRAMS
The Returning Fellows Program: Deepening the engagement of each artist
with the North Mayo body of work and with the community.
The Archive Program: Permanent collection of over 200 works donated
by
Ballinglen Fellows and used for exhibitions and for educational purposes.
The Local Exhibitions Program: Professionally curated exhibitions
in Ballinglen’s
Courthouse Gallery, throughout Ireland and the world which feature
works
produced in Ireland at Ballinglen.
The Artists & Schools Program: Ballinglen Fellows conduct classes
in arts education
in local schools, in the artist’s studio and
exhibition
sessions in Ballycastle.
The Art and Design Reference Library: of 2000 volumes constitute a
resource
unequalled in most of Ireland is available to the public for study
and research.
Student Interns Program: Summer employment and pre-professional training
program for 7 to 9 high-school students to serve as docents in the
Courthouse
Gallery, and on special projects in close collaboration with the Fellows.
The North Mayo Press: Offers an Artist/Master Printer a private studio
and will allow collaboration among artists to produce editions of
etchings and monoprints.
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation appreciates
your interest and welcomes
your contribution. The Foundation is affiliated with the non-profit
Artist in Rural Ireland Fund, a tax exempt 501©(3) organization.
The
Fund exists to help support the Programs of the Foundation. |
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