ACCESS with Design Students go into the Community

WoW!! 'Working out Weaving' with local secondary schools and Community groups

Access with Design facilitated three creative and lively workshops at the Tory Top Road Library in Ballyphehane. As part of the Work Experience in-house programme it was the students' remit to share the skill of weaving with members from the local community. The Presentation Girls Secondary School and the Ballyphehane Craft Initiative took part in workshops on table-top weaving using recycled clothing and salvaged bed linen. The work produced was inspiring and the Access with Design students were thrilled with the results - most importantly all of the participants took away a new skill that we hope they will use in craft work in the future.

Hair Raising! - a wig-making day created pieces for the 17th century Restoration play 'She Stoops to Conquer'

Another interesting collaboration was the bringing together of two courses from Coláiste StiofáinNaofa . The Access with Design students organised and assisted in the wig making with the Theatre Production course for a day at the Tory Top Road Library. The buzz and energy was there from the offset and the groups worked well together using an array of materials to produce some really wacky results, as you can see in their up-coming production, 'She Stoops to Conquer'.

Congratulations to ACCESS with Design 1 for the Road Roller Project!

Congratulations to all Access with Design students who participated in the Road Roller Print project as part of Cork Art Trail and Cork Printmakers. The print is currently on view at Cork Opera House. Students also have put together an exhibit documenting the process of creating the linocut print - step-by-step. It is on view at CSN's Laboratory Gallery.

For further information, contact: Debbie Godsell: d.godsell@csn.ie

FREE Saturday Worshops draw huge attention from an adoring public Arts Administration Students "inspire" with Creative Art Activities

Families from all over the Cork area joined together this morning for the second of 3 amazing workshops designed for children and their parents. The experience included a guided tour, story-telling, hands-on workshops - 3 age-specific activities, plus a poetry word-play activity high-lighted by LIVE music by the Music, Management and Sound students form the ensemble, "Nelson's Mandola".

The theme this week was "Under the Sea", drawing inspiration from several works in the show that incorporate sea imagery - jellyfish (by Fiona Cotter); photographs of Youghal Lighthouse (by Eimear Kelleher); Fabric and ribbon stitched net by Nuala O'Reilly-Teegan as well as a mono print by Grace O'Leary. Colour and varied materials gave the 30 strong group of young people a happy experience that allowed for perceptual and cognitive connections.

A third workshop will be held Saturday 19th February at Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, 11-1 PM. The theme will be "The Emperor's New Clothes" and will incorporate wearable art, fashion and giving identities and clothing to some special lonely wooden visitors at Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's - waiting for "attire".

Join us for the fun. The exhibition closes on Friday 25th February at noon. For further information contact Arts Administration @ csnartsadmin@gmail.com or c.white@csn.ie

Drawing Inspiration opens to 500 people at Cork Vision Centre

drawing inspiration the 10th anniversary exhibition of art and design from CSN at Cork Vision Centre, opened to a huge crowd on Thursday evening 3rd February, 6-8 PM. Student work from CSN has been on view in a unique partnership with Cork Vision Centre, since 2001. Courses on view are: Art, Craft and Design; Arts Administration (event organisers. exhibition installation and weekend events specialists); Furniture Design 1 & 2; Creative Textiles; Creative Ceramics;

Access with Design 1 and 2; Multimedia 1 & 2 and Higher Diploma, Professional Arts - FD. Work was framed by students of arts administration to suit the Lynch System in Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's.

Trish Brennan, Head of Fine Art (Acting), CIT's Crawford College of Art and Design officially opened the show to the Cork public. Speaking on behalf of CSN was Principal, Tim Kelleher and on behalf of Cork Vision Centre, emcee for the evening, John X. Miller - Director Cork Civic Trust and Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's.

Artists, designers and their families, friends and colleagues enjoyed new and humorous exhibition techniques, the ambiance of the Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's amplified by music by ALL BLUES from Music, Management and Sound at CSN. The map of the exhibition, handed out to every visitor, made the show fall together as "one" - not isolating any course - showing the unity of the college courses as a "whole". CSN is well known for quality tuition in a nurturing environment for the pursuit of all the arts.

Weekend workshops began Saturday 5th February - with Origami and Haiku - story-telling and hands-on activities. The swans and whales, boats and fish were all put on the River Lee on the map of Cork to add to the colour and effect of the exhibition when one walks through the front doors. Next weekend 12th - the theme of the workshops from 11AM -1 PM will be "Under the Sea" and on the 19th Feb - "The Emperor's New Clothes" - ALL FREE to visitors - children and adults alike.

For further information, contact Arts Administration CSN, Carol White - c.white@csn.ie

(021) 4961020