Business to Arts

Business to Arts is an Irish organisation with the stated goal to develop "creative partnerships between the worlds of business and arts and culture".[1] It was established in 1988 under the name "Cothu".[2] Charitable contributions by business form the primary source of funding for Business to Arts, together with some funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

One of the organisation's stated goals is to seek to increase private investment in arts and culture. As part of this objective, in 2008, the group's chief executive published a number of policy initiatives for consideration in partnership with government.[3] In 2016, Business to Arts helped commission four paintings of women admitted to the Royal Irish Academy. The paintings were the first portraits of women to be displayed in the Royal Irish Academy.[4] The same year the organisation sought artist submissions to Dublin Port's "Port Perspectives" project. Winners were to be announced in 2017.[5]

Each year the organisation arranges the "Allianz Business to Arts Awards" which celebrate a range of relationships between the business and arts communities.[6]

References
  1. "Fifth anniversary: Fund It investors show wisdom of crowd". Irish Times. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. "Become a Business Member" (PDF). businesstoarts.ie. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. "Minister, Business is Playing its Part". Irish Times. April 4, 2008.
  4. Burke, Elaine. "For the first time in 230 years, there are Women on Walls of the RIA". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  5. "Dublin Port Call to Artists Launched". Afloat. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  6. "An Post and RTÉ among bodies given Business to Arts awards". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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