Open Studio Week in the Art Department at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa is being run in conjunction with our exhibition Mind’s Eye, at Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s, which showcases work from last year’s students, set in exhibition format by CSN students of Arts Administration.

The combining of these events gives your students the opportunity to see the work that our students have produced, check out our facilities, chat to our present students and ask questions about our courses.

Further information about our art and design courses we can be found in the CSN website's Art Department pages. Make sure to have a look at other posts here in our blog to get a good overview of what goes on at CSN in the Art and Design Department.

The open studio week will run at CSN, Tramore Road, Cork - from 6th – 10th February from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 3.30pm each day. Mind’s Eye will run from 3rd to 23rd February at The Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s, North Main St., Cork, Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 – 5 PM. Family workshops will run in conjunction with Mind’s Eye on Saturdays (4th; 11th and 18th Feb.) 11 AM – 1 PM – all ages invited; arts workshops; live music and childrens creative writing workshops.
If you have any questions please contact me at l.phelan@csn.ie

All Art and Design Courses are Represented Intuitively in Mind's Eye

Providing a showcase for excellent work, created by students on specialist courses at CSN, is an important aspect of marketing the Art and Design Department. A comprehensive exhibition, entitled Mind's Eye, will put on view the work of the following courses: Art, Craft and Design; Access with Design; Creative Textiles; Creative Ceramics; Furniture Design; Multimedia/Screen-based Digital Media and Arts Administration .

The show debuts Thursday 2nd February, 6-8 PM, at Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, N. Main Street, with Nicki Ffrench-Davis, Administrator of Civic Trust House, doing the honours of officially opening the show to the public. The exhibition has been organised and styled, educationally interpreted, minded for framing and matting, maintenance of plinths, new exhibition design elements and following an exhibition design schema.map by students of Arts Administration CSN.

The month of February will be an opportunity for the general public to enjoy the multi-faceted exhibition, invigilated by students of Arts Administration Tuesday through Saturdays, 10 AM - 5 PM), providing Guided Tours for groups with worksheets; special writing workshops for children and adults - to be announced (afternoons); Multimedia/Digital workshop sessions as drop-in after school interaction; Family Arts Saturdays - (with art activities, music and writing workshops 4th; 11th and 18th 11 AM - 1 PM).

The month of February is a "classroom in city-centre" where Arts Administration students put theory into practice and expand their work placement experiences with hands-on, practical work with the general public. Digital photography; Arts and the Community; Writing for the Arts Sector; Arts Event Management - some important modules on the course, all come into play when the human factor is added to sound educational preparation.

Exceptional finished work, created for May 2011 by students from the specialist courses, featured in the new installation, have been picked by their Course Directors. The variety of work includes fine finished furniture design by Jordi Esqueda, among others; Textile design by Fiona Cotter, Karin Kempf and Marika O'Sullivan (among others); portraiture- colour and light finished paintings by Access with Design students Tanya McMahon, Catherine O'Sullivan and Olwyn Grant show the introspective element of studying "oneself" as a model. Ceramic sculptures and vessels by Nicolaas Bester feature in the mezzanine installation, as well as architectural studies by Pat Galvin, among others. Art, Craft and Design, Fine Art students, show their versatility from Jennifer Ahern's gigantic squid-like ceramic whorl with tentacles to her mysterious sculpture, hanging in space like "the mind's eye".

Fine printmaking, drawing, painting, design in all areas and whimsical collages keep the show moving as a testimony to the good teaching exacted and creative nurturing enabled at CSN. The excellent student work produced over time, is proof-positive why so many of these individuals seek and go on to success at 3rd level education or pursue individual practice after leaving CSN.

The exhibition runs for 3 weeks at Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, N. Main Street, closing Thursday 23rd February, for take-down on Friday 24th. For further information, contact:
Carol White, c.white@csn.ie; www.csn.ie 353 (021) 4961020
and www.corkvisioncentre.com 353 - 021 - 4279925

CSN is a City of Cork Vocational Education Committee College of Further Education
353 -21 4273377

Graphic Design - Paul Delaney pauldelaneyartdesign@gmail.com