Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/interest to work together on projects. The scheme covers all art forms. The Artist in the Community Scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, providing services for arts development and collaborative arts practice in Ireland.

The selection panel members were: Anthony Haughey, lens based artist; Caoimhín Corrigan, County Leitrim arts officer, Director of The DOCK and Irish commissioner for Venice 2009; Michelle Browne, visual artist/curator; George Seremba, playwright and actor; Liz Burns, Development Manager, Fire Station Artists Studio; Sheila Gorman, observer, Arts Participation Officer, Arts Council and Emma Geraghty Create Learning Development alumni student observer, DIT.

Successful applicants for Round Two in 2009

Phase 1: Research + Development Awards (artist and community, artform)

• Grace Dyas, Rialto Community Drug Team, theatre
• Sarah Wood, Guild of Outstanding Outcasts, theatre
• Rebecca Moran, Ceart PatientWise, theatre/literature
• Laura Fitzgerald, Respond Housing Association, visual arts
• Jessica Foley, St Georges Hill Primary School/The Market Studios/Local fruit market vendors and traders, visual arts
• Christina Gangos-Klien, Limerick Community Education Network & Limerick VEC, film
• Adam Burthom, Carrick on Shannon Car Boot Sale, visual arts
• Marie Brett, Cork University Hospital Maternity Unit & Ballyphehane & Togher Community Art & Craft Initiative, visual arts
• Carolann Courtney, Aras Chronain Intercultural Centre & Clondalkin Youth Band, film
• Monica de Bath, Bord na Móna workers, visual art
• John Byrne, The Religious/Theologians, visual arts
• Carol Kavanagh, Fourwinds Lithuanian School, visual arts
• Cathy Henderson, Education Unit Wheatfield Prison, visual arts

Phase 2 -Project Realisation Awards (community, artist, artform)

• White Oaks Rehabilitation Centre residents, Joanna McGlynn, visual arts
• Comhairle na nÓg/Galway Arts Centre, Alan Bulfin, visual arts (radio)
• St. Kevin's Family Resource Centre, Aileen Lambert, visual arts
• Irish Chinese Culture & Sports Association, Jay Koh, visual arts
• Focus Ireland, Gúna Nua Theatre Company, theatre
• Rialto Youth Project, Fiona Whelan, visual arts
• The Belvedere Youth Club, Katie Lincoln, film
• Oige Na Gaeltachta, Kevin O'Shanahan / Ríonach Ní Néill, music/dance