Business to Arts

2010 Category Winners
& Highly Commended Entries

As well as arts sponsorship, the Allianz Business to Arts Awards embrace and recognise examples of arts and business organisations working together in other areas such as mentoring, training, staff development, commissioning artists, CSR initiatives etc.

On 24 May, business and cultural leaders will gather for the 19th year to celebrate the winning relationships and hear how their peers have unlocked hidden potential, and driven commercial activity through showcasing their services or products through innovative partnerships with the arts.

We are currently developing case studies on this year's winners, which will feature on the Case Studies section of our website on the 24 May.

1. Best Use of Creativity by a Business

Winner:
Westport Chamber of Commerce & Len Collin
for Covies

Highly Commended:
HSE and Centre for Health Informatics, Trinity College & Helium Children’s Arts & Health for the Puppet Portal Project
BMW Ireland & Irish Museum of Modern Art for Alexander Calder Jewelry & BMW Art Car
Noone Casey for The Twelve Doors Project

Awarded to a business or organisation that has worked with an arts organisation or artist(s) in an innovative and mutually beneficial way, bringing creativity into the workplace. This will be a project that uses the imagination, innovation or creativity of artists or the arts in a business context, such as for staff development, work/life balance, marketing, communication etc.

2. Best Sponsorship of an Event

Winner:
Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard & Dublin Fringe Festival for Absolut Fringe

Highly Commended:
Phantom 105.2 & Dublin Dance Festival for Bumper 2 Bumper
BNY Mellon & Irish Museum of Modern Art for Picturing New York
KBC Bank Ireland & KBC Music in Great Irish Houses

Awarded to a sponsorship which has uniquely enhanced an arts event and made a difference whether socially, culturally or to tourism levels. The sponsorship may have been in the form of cash or some in-kind donation, but is one that made an impact to the scope of the event.

3. Best Sponsorship by Small to Medium Enterprises

Winner:
Ahern & Co & Boyle Civic Collection and Boyle Arts Festival

Highly Commended:
Temple Bar Cultural Trust for Culture Night
taxback.com & Butler Gallery Solas Book Project / Kilkenny Arts Festival Kids Go Free
ebow & Irish Museum of Modern Art for Traces

Awarded to a partnership with the arts by a business or organisation employing less than 250 people. As with the ‘Best Sponsorship of an Event’ Award this sponsorship may be based on financial or in-kind support, and will take account of the innovation and inspiration that is often found in the relationships between the arts and Ireland’s many SME’s.

4. Best Ongoing Sponsorship

Winner:
AIB & AIB Street Performance World Championships

Highly Commended:
Premier Foods Ireland & Children’s Books Ireland
for Bisto Children’s Book of the Year
Ulster Bank & Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival

Awarded to a sponsorship relationship that has lasted 3 years or more. This relationship will have evolved and made more meaningful through the passing of time.

5. Corporate (Cultural) Social Responsibility Award

Winner:
Ulster Bank & The National Concert Hall
for Up the Tempo

Highly Commended:
Accenture & Common Ground
Bank of America Merrill Lynch & Irish Chamber Orchestra for Music Factory

Awarded to a socially and culturally responsible project that results in engagement by a community in the arts. This project may address issues of access, education, communication or, quite simply, be fun! Applicants should demonstrate that their project is in line with the overall CSR strategy of the company.

6. The Jim McNaughton Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice

Winner:
An Post Annual Stamp Programme

Highly Commended:
Pfizer Healthcare Ireland & Antidote for Reeling in the Pain
Dublin Port Company & Carpet Theatre for Ferry Tales

Rewarding excellence and good practice in the commissioning process by companies and other organisations. This award will recognise commissioning across all art forms.

7. The Jim McNaughton / TileStyle Bursary for Commissioned Artists

Peter Monaghan commissioned by OMS architects

€10,000 bursary for an artist who is gaining experience in the field of commissioning to help develop their practice. The applying artists will have completed a commission in the previous 12 months for a business.

8. Dublin Airport Authority €5,000 Arts Award

St. Agnes Music Crumlin

Rewarding great relationship management, and imagination and creativity in working with the corporate community.

9. Judges’ Special Recognition

Awarded to Irish Museum of Modern Art for its ground-breaking work in the past year with sponsors such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch; BNY Mellon; BMW Ireland and ebow