Art, Craft & Design Students Visit Backwater 20-10

Students of CSN's Art, Craft & Design course took some precious time between interviews and classes to visit BACKWATER 20-10 at The Crawford Gallery, Emmett Place.

With prepared worksheets in hand, the students walked the 3 floors of the exhibition looking at innovative exhibition design, the variety of work on view, film/video installations and interactive features as well as the concept of "curatorship" in exhibitions.

Students were invigorated by a trip off-site and returned from the day with renewed energy to go into the last months of their portfolio preparation course. Many students have received their points back from CCAD, are travelling to LSAD for interview, DIT, Glasgow School of Art, Dun Laoghire College of Art, Galway School of Art and others have applied for Level 6 courses internally at CSN.


For information on the Art, Craft and Design course, contact Course Director Lucy Phelan at l.phelan@csn.ie or (021) 4961020.

The annual CSN exhibition of art and design will open to the public Thursday 27th May at 7 PM, "Beautiful Proof". Watch this space for updates.

Imprints of Shandon - LLL Festival - Access with Design

Inspiration comes from a series of visits to a specific place. Research follows - allowing students to process information, create sketchbook entries and here bring to the Access with Design course 1st year students -inspired images in both print and stitch of the glorious views of Shandon in Cork.

Architecture, cobbled streets, the Shandon bells, the famous "Goldie Fish", plus the divergent people and the colour of life give impetus to the creative process.

Nancy Falvey, of Ballyphehane, will officially open this in-house display of student work, to the Lifelong Learning Festival audience, on Tuesday morning, 23rd March, 10 AM on the ground floor foyer at CSN.

For further information on the Access with Design course, contact: Jenny Monks at www.csn.ie Ph.(021) 4961020. Early interviews will take place 25th March, applications by Internet on the college website, as above.

Backstory Opening, Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, Celebrates 9th Art and Design Annual February Show from CSN

2 Feb 2010

City Arts Officer, Liz Meaney, official opening speaker at Backstory, joined the crowd of 300+ people to celebrate the quality work produced by students of CSN in the areas of Fine Art and Design.

70 works, consisting of Art, Craft and Design; Creative Textiles; Creative Ceramics; Access with Design; Multimedia and Furniture Design grace the open celestial space of Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, including a puppet theatre, on the mezzanine, with character created by Access with Design 1 students, from a renown Toulouse Lautrec painting, Evening at the Moulin Rouge.

Students of Arts Administration organised the opening as well as the installation and "hang" of the show and will be giving tours and workshops during the month of February on site..

Attending the exhibit opening were individuals ranging from secondary school students and their art teachers, parents and friends of CSN students, former students, students interested in CSN courses, arts sector management, work experience employers of arts admin students and friends of the Cork Vision Centre.

The atmosphere at the opening, subtley paced by ROUND MIDNIGHT, CSN Music, Management and Sound students, was electric. By all reports, "a good time was had by all". Pictures and articles about the exhibit appeared in Cork Independent; BACK PAGE Cork Examiner; and the Evening ECHO.

The exhibition BACKSTORY runs Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10-5 PM through Wednesday Feb. 24th, Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter's, N. Main Street, Cork.

All courses will be interviewing students in March and May. Applications can be found on line: http://www.csn.ie/.

Pictured: L - R Liz Meaney, Cork City Arts Officer; John X. Miller, Director Cork Civic Trust and Cork Vision Centre; Carol White, Arts Administration Course Director; Rachel Abraham, HOD Art and Design and CEO of City of Cork VEC, Ted Owens. PHOTO: Tony O'Connell

Multimedia Graduate in VFX

CSN Multimedia Graduate Iva Trajkovic has recently landed a job with one of the world's top visual effects and post-production companies Framestore CFC. After completing her BTEC Higher National Diploma at CSN two years ago, Iva went on to do a one year BA top up course in Bournemouth. She was then accepted onto the prestigious MA in Digital Effects in Bournemouth University and from there was taken on by Framestore as a junior compositor. Iva was introduced to compositing and 3D as part of her BTEC HND using software like 3DS Max & Combustion. Since starting the job last October Iva has already chalked up credits on the forthcoming Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

IvaVfx Showreel from ivavfx on Vimeo.

Professional Arts in public spaces

The Professional Arts students are again working with clients from the public sector on one of their creative projects. Clients this year have been confimed as: Cork City Enterprise Board, Crawford Gallery, Cork School of Music, Cork City Council and Cork City Library. Students are designing and making pieces according to a given brief that will then be on display in a public area. Two students Eli Caamano and Sandy Hyland had their work displayed at this years 'Showcase' in Dublin at the end of January.

Creative Ceramics 2010

Creative Ceramics students have now finalised the clay and glaze development module and have developed recipies for a variety of coloured and matt glazes. Students are preparing for interview into second year Ceramics at third level Colleges and have just started into the sculpture project. Anyone interested in the Course is welcome to visit CSN on Friday the 5th of February. Students will be working in the Ceramics room during the day and information on the Course is available from the Art Department desk and on the CSN website.

Art, Craft and Design Students apply for 3rd Level Colleges and Level 6 Courses

Preparing for the future is part of the Art, Craft and Design course. Students have been applying for 3rd level colleges through CAO and UCAS as well as for FE courses at Level 6 and BTEC Higher National Diploma in Multimedia within CSN.

Portfolio preparation is taking on the rhythm of the spring term where students are involved in tutorials and fulfilling schedules "tailored" to their needs for Art; Design; Fashion Design; Ceramics and Multimedia, as well as other courses in the arts sector.

Open Day (Friday 5th February) will feature studio visits as well as an information desk with members of staff on hand to discuss all courses - with dvds and written matieral on hand and on display .