The Arts Office organises a number of programmes aimed at furthering the professional development of artists.

Professional Development Bursaries
Professional Development Bursaries are an annual round of bursaries which artists from any discipline can apply for. Any activity or expense which would contribute to an artists development is eligable. For further information, please see the Grants & Bursaries page on the menu to the left.

Mentor Programme
We are currently implementing a new Mentor programme designed around the particular needs of individual or groups of artists. For a writer this might mean another writer, editor or a publisher. For a musician it might be another musician or producer. As well as this there will be an opportunity for a larger number of visual artists to recieve one-to-one advice sessions with a number of leading curators.

For the first of these sessions, Mike Fitzpatrick, Curator, Limerick City Gallery, talked to five artists over the course of one day about their own development. The second of these with Patrick Murphy, Director of the Royal Hibernain Academy is scheduled for Thursday 18th September in King House, Boyle. For further details on this session and how to apply, please go to the NEWS section.

if you have ideas of other mentors you would would like to work with from any arts disipline, please let us know and we will try to accomodate your needs.