Well done Maria

Congratulations to CSN Graphic Design student Maria Costello who designed the College Night Course brochure. Maria’s design exhibits a high level of design skill and attention to detail. The design of the booklet involved a lot of hard work and co-operation with the Night Course Dept. This is a great achievement for Maria to design a brochure to such a professional standard having completed a one year course in Graphic Design at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa.

We wish Maria good luck in the future from all at the Graphic Design Dept.

Arts Administration Students get the BACKSTORY

Seventeen 2009-10 students of Arts Administration at CSN have begun the process of Planning and Organising the 8th annual Art and Design Exhibition, BACKSTORY, opening at Cork Vision Centre@ St. Peter's in February 2010.

With the CSN student art and design work already selected for the show, AA students have been led in an "exhibit title" brainstorming session, by CIT graduate in Graphic Design, Paul Delaney. Emphasising team working, allowing the entire class to explore possibilities for graphic design "interpretive planning" for the exhibition - hundreds of words, branching off of the title "BACKSTORY" were splashed across a classroom white board. Everyone participated.

Project Managers for the exhibition are Tadgh Crowley, LSAD graduate and Caitriona Considine, graudate of Cork School of Music. They will delegate jobs to the other class members.

Management skills, Customer Service, Marketing, Exhibition Techniques and Design, accompany the inherent "nurturing of skills" necessary for successfully dealing with the public - creatively organising the hang, the opening, weekend programming and tour guiding throughout the month of February 2010 will be fulfilled by the motivated group.

Hands-on, practical modules are a hallmark of this innovative course. CSN Arts Administration is validated by CHNTO, UK, formerly the Museum Training Institute. Watch this BLOG space.
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Lets become professional

The Professional Arts Diploma will run again this year, with 1 Textile and 4 Furniture Design students, after funding has been confirmed by the Cork City Enterprise Board.

After a successful year in 1007/8 with an end of year exhibition in the Rubicon Centre, CIT, the course is running again to facilitate students that are ready to prepare for self-employment.

Looking back and ahead

7 out of 9 Creative Ceramics students have successfully transferred ino second Year Ceramics at the Crawford College of Art and Design. The end of year show was a great success and included wall pieces, large scale scupltures and small decorative vessels and pieces from the new sculpture module. A selection of work will be on show in February in the Vision Centre. A new group of first year students is scheduled to start on the 14th of September.

Access All Areas!!

This year Access with Design applications were very high. We’re looking forward to the 21st of September when we meet our new students and welcome back our second year class.

Congratulations to all, results were fantastic and you can look forward to celebrating them at the graduation in November. Good luck to those of you pursuing further studies in CSN and Crawford College of Art. This year watch out for our touring exhibition in St Finbarres Cathedral and our participation in the Lifelong Learning Festival in March 2010.

New Beginnings

Firstly we would like to congratulate last year’s students on their excellent results and on their college placement. So far it looks like most people have been placed on their first choice college course. Well done and good luck in your new course!

We would also like to welcome our new students; we have an exciting programme ready for you and are looking forward to getting started on the 14th. Competition for places was very tough this year especially in the September round of interviews. I would advise anyone interested in applying for next years programme to apply early, last year we interviewed in March and again in May. If you would like to have a look around the art area and have a chat about the course, e-mail me at l.phelan@csn.ie and I will be happy to make you an appointment. Also check out our slideshow and ex student feedback also on this site. But most importantly keep making art.

Well done textile students!

Well done to last years students who had a wonderful show in May. The students are now invited to exhibit their work in the College of Music gallery space. The Textile Exhibition titled ‘The Long Note’ will open in November.

Congratulations to textile graduate Anne Kiely who won first prize (Print) in the RDS Craft Competition. Anne’s bespoke chairs and soft furnishings can be viewed on this blog. The winners of the competition will in the Sirius Art Gallery in November. Congratulations also

to graduate Carmel Creaner who was elected to the board of the Craft Council of Ireland.