COMMUNITY
Funding for Mull and Iona art trail Funding has been awarded explore the arts with the help for a new art trail showcasof a special map highlighting ing creative talents on Mull locations and venues that and Iona in time for Easter. can be visited. A new webFinancial support from the site will also be created. Scottish Government’s Visit Mull and Iona hopes Scotland Loves Local fund the Art Trail project will help means Visit Mull & Iona (VMI) bring in a new audience of can keep on artist Alicia arts admirers and culture Hendrick to co-ordinate and seekers. deliver the project. The Scotland Loves Local VMI chairperson Margaret Fund is administered by Matthew said the islands Scotland’s Towns Partneralready have a flourishship. ing cultural scene and the Alicia said the art trail funding will help highlight this project is still in its early days vibrant aspect of island life but is likely to take the form even more. a map and an ‘The Scotland artists’ direcIt’s an Loves Local tory, marking opportunity to award, that will out venues and provide an Art artists to flag up build on our Trail and assocultural heritage. the vast wealth ciated website, of creativity It’s for the local will help inform across the two audience as well islands. and encourage as visitors. locals and visi‘It’s an opportors to explore tunity to build the creativity on our cultural on offer in the islands,’ she heritage. It’s for the local auadded. dience as well as visitors. We Once up and running, Mull are a big island, including and Iona Art trail will be the Iona. It may be that people first stage in a campaign in the north are not so aware supporting the cultural life of of what’s happening in the the islands. south and vice-versa. It will People living there and link artists up as a way of visitors will be encouraged to networking too. It might be
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that we can all come together for some kind of future funding for more projects. ‘It’s early on but the possibilities are already exciting. We want to make sure the map will be an asset for now and in the future. Through this time of Covid, a lot of artists who are self-employed have lost out on a lot so they need all the support they can to be visible,’ added Alicia who was formerly An Tobar’s Arts Officer and has her own studio on Mull.
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