Portfolio Course Emphasises Good Practice - Art, Craft and Design

After six months of intensive work in the studio, workshops, lecture theatre and in sketchbooks - students of Art, Craft and Design are beginning the process of attending interviews for 3rd level colleges and making decisions about staying at CSN for Level 6 courses.

Art, Craft and Design at Level 5 facilitates students coming from Leaving Certificate, world of work, individuals changing careers, people re-training in studio areas after a period of raising families and travelling - providing a skills-based course tailored for the serious art student.

Level 6 Painting with Business is in the preparatory stages - with an eye to running an enhanced "skills-building" course, for the serious art student who wants additional training in preparation for professional practice or to attend 3rd level college with a broader base of specialisation.

CSN offers on-line applications via the college website: www.csn.ie Early interviews will be help in March and May 2011. An exhibition of work from all courses in the Art and Design Department will open in late May - to showcase the work completed this year.

For further information, contact: Lucy Phelan (Course Director) l.phelan@csn.ie

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

Creative Textiles Level 6 at CSN - "a cut above"

The 2009-2010 year saw amazing work produced in the areas of fashion, jewellery, interior design and surface manipulation in Creative Textiles.

Congratulations are due to student, Laura Vaughan, who completed an internship with designer Liz Nilson, in Dublin.

We welcome new students to the course this autumn, including CSN students from ACCESS with Design and Art, Craft and Design. Returning to CSN, to complete the City and Guilds Higher Diploma in Professional Arts, is Textiles student, Carmel Creaner.

We would like to wish past students the best of luck in their further studies in Crawford College of Art and Design and Sherkin Island/DIT Degree in Art.

Above photographs include (L) finished work by Hilda de Lacey (2009-2010) and (R) Luisa Cardoso, (2009-2010).

For further information on the course, contact: j.hickson@csn.ie (021) 4961020

NEWS Update from ACCESS with Design 2010-2011

This year we are launching a new and 'approved' Access with Design course. Learners will now complete our programme over five mornings per week in one full year. Students will further experience a range of exciting design-based techniques and projects. We will offer more time in core subjects, such as drawing and colour work, in a supported learning environment. Please refer to our CSN website main page for details: Access with Design; Department of Art and Design.

We are pleased to see that applications are high this year. Classes will begin on September 20th 2010.

Watch for us at Cork Art Trail's "road rolling" project (in November 2010) when printmaking students will collaborate with Cork Printmakers on a "large scale lino project".

We will also be 'out and about' in the city, documenting our 'impressions' of urban life, collecting material and imagery for our design projects.

A big congratulations to all this year's outgoing design students. Results were fantastic. Best of luck to those who are continuing in artistic studies at Crawford College of Art and Design and returning to CSN in Level 6 Textiles and Ceramics.



For further information, contact: Jenny Monks. Course Director, j.monks@csn.ie