The Dungarvan Art Trail featuring the 'Vertigo Project' by internationally acclaimed dye transfer printer and artist Jean Curran, comes to an end on the 31st of August. Launched in May, the original handmade prints have been displayed in unoccupied shop fronts and available business windows throughout the town during the summer months and have delighted … Continue reading Final chance to see the Vertigo Project at the Dungarvan Art Trail
Waterford City and County Council (WCCC), in partnership with Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), is delighted to be awarded €155,000 from Creative Climate Action funding. The funding will support five creative projects in Waterford city and county that will build awareness around climate change and lead to meaningful behavioural change around climate issues. The project, … Continue reading Waterford announced as one of Ireland’s first recipients of Creative Climate Action funding
Waterford Sand Artist Seán Corcoran developed an exciting project for Cruinniú nÓg 2021 with 20 students from Gaelscoil Phort Láirge. This was a 5 week project with 6th class students and Seán from The Art Hand, funded by Creative Ireland. The project consisted of a series of Zoom workshops and culminated in visiting Kilmurrin Cove … Continue reading Sending a positive message to the world with Sand Art
Creative Ireland (Waterford) Creative Arts Programme Co-ordinator (pilot programme) Expression of Interest Creative Ireland (CI) is a five-year culture-based programme designed to promote individual, community and national wellbeing. The core proposition is that participation in cultural activity drives personal and collective creativity, with significant implications for individual and societal wellbeing and achievement. Waterford … Continue reading Creative Ireland (Waterford) Creative Arts Programme Co-ordinator position
A day of free creativity for children and young people. Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth Plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people. The … Continue reading Cruinniú na nÓg is back
Twenty-one grants are to be allocated to a range of community groups, organisations and individuals from Creative Waterford funding. The successful applicants to the Creative Waterford Open Call 2021 scheme were notified of their grants at the end of April. Waterford City and County Council Culture Team manages this funding on behalf of Creative Ireland. … Continue reading Creative Waterford Open Call 2021 Grants Announced
The Dungarvan Art Trail is now on. Running from May through to September 2021, in various shop windows around Dungarvan County Waterford, the Arts Centre and Library throughout the coastal town. Dungarvan Art Trail is delighted to present The Vertigo Project by internationally acclaimed, locally based, dye transfer printer and artist Jean Curran. The Dungarvan Art … Continue reading Dungarvan Art Trail Now On
Local Waterford artist and dye transfer printer Jean Curran will create an exhibition of original dye transfer prints from Technicolor movies in the form of an immersive Art Trail to be launched in Dungarvan County Waterford in May 2021. Original handmade prints will be exhibited in unoccupied shop fronts and available business windows throughout the … Continue reading Exciting innovative Dungarvan Art Trail to be launched this summer
In September 2020, Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School in Waterford held the Mercy Creative Arts Bodhrán Workshops for 155 students. The bodhrán making workshop was facilitated by Michael Vignoles. Michael has been crafting uilleann pipes and bodhrán drums in his workshop in Claddagh, Galway for the past 25 years. After giving a brief history … Continue reading Mercy Creative Arts Bodhrán Workshops
Ah go on… celebrates creativity and the positive mental health messages a cup of tea with friends can bring. The project was delivered by use of instructional videos created by local Waterford artist Adele Stanley and with supplementary in person support from the Occupational Therapy Team at the Department of Psychiatry. Ah go on… an … Continue reading Celebrating creativity and a cup of tea with friends