Jess O’Callaghan, who graduated with flying colours from the CSN Multimedia Course in 2010 recently won a coveted ‘A’ award in the annual YCN Student Awards in London.

On graduating from CSN with a BTEC HND (Higher National Diploma) in Multimedia, she completed a one year 'top-up' in 'Brighton & Hove City College' to gain a BA in 'Digital Media Design'

Read more about it here

Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa will hold a craft sale Wednesday the 30th from 11 am onwards. Items for sale will include ceramics as well as textiles and small furniture design items produced by the Professional Arts Diploma students.  The sale will be in front of the Caretakers office. If this time is difficult for anybody, please pop into the ceramics room on Tuesday morning and we can make alternative arrangements.

Arts Administration students engage with the City: Knowing the Keys to Audience Development

The new group of Arts Administration students are, as always, a special group of individuals. They come from divergent backgrounds. The major factor they have in common is their desire to work with people in the capacity of arts management.

To date, they have been on a Walkabout around all of the major arts organisations in Cork City. This team-building exercise allows the students to begin their writing about the arts, in earnest as well as their interest in photographing people, each other working as well as the vibrancy of the city - including working as management volunteers with the City Arts Office for CULTURE NIGHT; visiting Civic Trust (Festival) House and each individual student being placed in Work Placement in one of Cork's major arts organisations including Cork Opera House; Glucksman Gallery; Art Trail; Cork Film Festival; Civic Trust House; Backwater Artists Group and Wandesford Quay Gallery.

The students are in the process of planning, organising, staffing and working on the 11th Annual Exhibition of CSN student Art Work at Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, opening Thursday 2nd February 2012. The exhibition is entitled Mind's Eye, and the interpretive planning we are working on includes the "Mind's Eye" concept of creativity, studied by great philosophers and thinkers, such as Albert Einstein. We all see the world through our "Mind's Eye".

Updates on the event will follow. We are dedicated to keeping the public informed about the progress of the Art and Design Department and the participation of the public in our events, exhibitions and open days.

Carol White, Arts Administration, Course Director

Photo - Lucia Creedon, AA student 2011-12

c.white@csn.ie