Welcome
The Irish American Arts Awards has been honored to receive a message of support from the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.
The Short List entries for the Irish American Arts Awards have been announced!
Under 35 Years Old Category
- Noel Brennan
- Mark Garry
- Lee Welch
35 Years and Older Category
- Cecily Brennan
- Conor McFeely
- Corban Walker
Welcome to the website for the Irish American Arts Awards.
The awards recognize, encourage and celebrate contemporary visual artists of Irish ancestry across the world. The awards are open to anyone living anywhere in the world, as long as they can show that they have at least one great, great grand-parent born on the island of Ireland.
An awards ceremony will be held annually in Manhattan, with the first held September 12th, 2006 at Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South, New York.
Entrants, in the field of the contemporary visual arts, include details of paintings, drawings, prints, lens based media, installations and sculptures in support of their entry. There are two categories, one for those aged up to 35 years and one for those aged over 35 years.
The recipients of the Irish American Arts Awards will be announced in fall 2008.
IAAA Sponsors
Key Dates
Fall 2008
Receipients of the Awards announced.
Entries May Include
Details of paintings, drawings, prints, new media and sculptures in support of their entry.
Enrique Juncosa
“I am very pleased to be Chairman of the panel of Judges for the second edition of Irish American Art Awards in 2007. This is a great, already materialized, idea which underlines the huge cultural and historical ties between Ireland, the USA and the rest of the diaspora at a time in which Irish Art is particularly visible and strong.”
— Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of the Panel of Judges