East Lothian Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards (VACMA)

Run in partnership with East Lothian Council Arts Service and Creative Scotland, the Visual Artist and Craft Makers Awards (VACMA) are available for individual artists and makers, based or resident in East Lothian.

The purpose of these bursaries is to support visual artists and craft makers in their creative and professional development.

The VACMA scheme offers two levels of bursaries:

Bursaries of £1,000 (For applicants that have been practicing for over 5 years, regardless of whether they have gone through formal education or not.)

Early-career bursaries of £500 (For applicants that have less than 5 years’ experience outside of education/training, graduated in 2019 or later, or that have not studied art formally but have been practising as an artist for up to 5 years.)

In addition, requests for support towards Personal Access Costs will be considered. Personal Access Costs are treated separately to your bursary request, this is to ensure that applicants with access needs are able to use the full bursary for their planned activity.

For more information and application forms please visit www.eastlothian.gov.uk/arts-funding