Last week to apply for the 2025/26 DCU Student Arts Bursary!

The Office of Student Life, with support from the DCU Educational Trust, offers a number of arts bursaries to full-time students involved in the arts. 

The aim of the Student Arts Bursary, established in 2009, is to promote excellence in artistic and cultural activities in Dublin City University, and to encourage the pursuit of such excellence. It aims to support individual professional artists at any stage of their career to develop their artistic practice.

Artforms include: Visual Arts, (Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Illustration, Craft making, Fashion), Performing Arts – (Dance, Music, Theatre; Music Technology) and Media Practice (Writing, Video; Film).

Students are asked to submit an application detailing their achievements to date, their hopes for the future development of their art form and some detail on how they propose to spend any bursary they may be awarded.

Details on eligibility and the application process can be found here.