Beautiful Proof - Summer Exhibition of Art and Design

Beautiful Proof, an exhibition of art and design by students of CSN will open to the public on Thursday evening, May 27th, from 7- 9PM. Work from 8 courses will grace the ground and 1st floors of the college, open to the public from Friday 28th May (10-4 PM) and Monday 31st May through Thursday 3rd May, (10 - 4 PM). Groups are welcome and students on art courses at secondary level are welcome to browse and participate in guided tours by students of Arts Administration.

Opening the show, officially, on May 27th, is John X. Miller, Director Cork Civic Trust and Cork Vision Centre@ St. Peter's. Music on the night will be provided, in the garden, by students of CSN's Music, Management and Sound - featuring music of the 90's and naughties. Surprises are always part of this electrifying evening, the culmination of a year's hard work.

Courses on view will be: Art, Craft and Design; Creative Textiles; Creative Ceramics; Multimedia 1 and 2; Furniture Design 1 and 2; Access with Design 1 and 2; Higher Diploma in Professional Arts (Level 7 - City and Guilds) and Arts Administration.

The exhibition design, the hang, the opening and the week's open programming have been prepared by students of Arts Administration Level 6 - a professional course for individuals who want to experience, hands on, the field of arts management.

For further information, contact: Carol White, Course Director, Arts Administration CSN; exhibitionscsnprojmanag@hotmail.com, (021) 4961020

See our Arts Administration Facebook page: CSN Arts Administration - become a friend of CSN and see the best of arts and the community in Cork.

*pictured are Coláiste Choím, Ballincollig, TY art students, Neassa Cooke and Robert McGillacuddy, on Work Experience with Arts Administration in April 2010.

3D Interior project

2nd year students on the BTEC Higher National Diploma in Multimedia at CSN have been doing some nice work on the 3D interior project. Each student designs, models and lights a 3D interior in 3DS Max 2010. The animated render here is by Zoltan Kovary.

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.