Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society Artist in Residence
Project Name
Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society Artist in Residence
Project Partners
Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society and Galway Culture Company
Role of Galway Culture Company
Funder and Partner
Strategic Aim
This project falls under our second strategic aim;
Support and Develop Place-based Cultural Programming
Project Description
The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society, supported by the Galway Culture Company, is hosting an Artist-in-Residence programme in summer of 2024 in The Studio at Thoor Ballylee.
Following the success of the pilot Artist-in-Residence programme in 2023, there will be two residencies in 2024, each one running for two weeks, one in July and one in September.
Each residency will highlight the various talents of the Yeats’s family. W.B. Yeats’s genius for drama, poetry and literature is the focus of July’s residency. The September residency highlights the talents of his siblings, Jack, Lily, and Elizabeth, as well as their father, John. The focus is on visual arts, textiles, embroidery and printing.
Project Outcomes – what we expect from this project
Artists awarded this residency will receive accommodation, local travel costs and a modest daily stipend. They will have access to The Studio where they can work during their residency. Each artist will engage with local artists in their genre at agreed times. They will also demonstrate their craft to the wider public through exhibitions, performances and/or workshops.
Two artists were selected through an open call. The artists are:
- Kara Griffin, writer and ecologist from Canada, who will be in residence in July 2024
- Susan Mannion, painter and embroiderer from Roscommon, who will be in residence in September 2024
Read more about the artists here.
How this project is funded
This project is funded by Galway Culture Company, which is supported by the Government of Ireland under the National Development Plan through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Duration
April 2024 through September 2024.
