Organisations Obliged to Pay Artists as Condition of Arts Council Funding Along with many other regularly funded organisations, we recently received our letter from the Arts Council offering funding for 2014. We were delighted and proud to see that the offer letters stated that it is now a condition of Arts Council funding that organisations pay artists that they work with. “It is a condition of Arts Council funding that you remunerate any artists that you engage appropriately, and that you reflect this in your revised plans and programme for the period of the funding offered” In 2013, after a year long research and consultation process, Visual Artists Ireland launched the Payment Guidelines for Professional Visual Artists. For the first time in Ireland, venues and artists could properly calculate equitable levels of payments, accurately budget for their programmes and for the variety of work that professional artists undertake in not for profit spaces. The Arts Council’s stipulation that organisations must now pay artists as a condition of funding is a major endorsement of our research and a big step towards the development of a sustainable model for best practice between artists and the institutions that contract their work. More information on our Payment Guidelines for Professional Visual Artists can be found here: visualartists.ie/advocacy/resources/infopool-2/payment-guidelines-for-professional-visual-artists/
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:33:51 +0000
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