Society of Wildlife Artists Bursaries

The Wilderness Foundation has received news of a fantastic funding opportunity for young artists inspired by the natural world.

Awards of up to £1000 each are open to young artists aged 15 to 30 years old. The awards are available to enable artistic skills to be developed through travel, education or mounting a special project.

If you are awarded a bursary you will be required to submit two works resulting from your endeavours to the annual 2008 Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition at Mall Galleries.

For more information, contact:

Federation of British Artists
17 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5BD

or download an application form from http://www.swla.co.uk/Projects/Bursary/Bursaries.htm

The deadline for applicaitons is 1st August 2007.

If you decide to enter please let us know. Good luck from the WFUK Team.

source: VAN Newsletter

Arts & Ecology at the RSA

Just in from our friends at the RSA Library - an item that may be of interest...

"The RSA Arts & Ecology project , a programme supporting the work of the arts in examining and addressing environmental concerns in an international arena, is holding a conference in December 2006 entitled "No way back". Providing different perspectives on ecological issues from major thinkers of our time, and timed to coincide with the new project publication Land, art: a cultural ecology handbook." - Full story here...

Click here to access previous RSA related postings from the Wilderness Foundation.