News
Tuesday 21st, May, 2013
Let Visual Artist Ireland guide you through your visual arts career.
Become a Member of Visual Artists Ireland and recieve advice and guidance that will benefit you throughout your career in the visual arts. With membership you will find that there are additional supports that VAI offer. As well as contributing to the development of VAI services for individual professional artists, you will also be contributing to their on-going work that they undertake on the behalf of artists.
VAI depend upon membership fees and other forms of generated income to add to our Arts Council and Arts Council of Northern Ireland grants.
All Professional and Associate members are entitled to:
- Avail of all Visual Artists Ireland services, facilities and resources
- Receive the Visual Artists’ News Sheet by post (6 issues per year)
- Access the journal Printed Project online (2 issues per year)
- Be included on the Visual Artists Ireland database and receive mail-shots of events and opportunities
- Inclusion on our members’ contact area of the Visual Artists Ireland website
- eligible for inclusion within the ArtQuest studio exchange programme
- Rent equipment and utilise in-house resources at subsidised rates
- Receive a membership card, which entitles you to discounts at a wide range of art material suppliers and service providers
- A reduction on fees charged for workshops and events
- Propose artists projects such as symposia, exhibitions, seminars or workshops to the Visual Artists Ireland Board
Professional members are also entitled to -
- Vote at the AGM
- Nominate professional members for election on to the Board of Directors
- Stand for election to the Board of Directors
- Propose items for the AGM agenda
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Act as a VAI nominated artist on commission/selection panels