Art / crafts courses/ events you would recommend

oil painting wrote: »

hi all,i just signed up here and am excited to use the forum... i am an artist me self hense the name,i wanted to share some of the courses i have done which i thought were really good...

i did a 2 yr course(i ended up staying for 3) in north strand,it was brilliant,it was a vtos cours and i got paid 250 a week there and around for doing it... the course was sculpture and ceramics based with a woodworking room,metalwork room,ceramics room,printing room,painting room and drawing room, a bit of art history aswel.... it was 9-5 mon to thur,i got such a good portfolio out of this course that it got me into ncad,actually we all got in who applied...when i got into ncad i realised that there was not the same attention paid to skills being taught and i realised how great the course was in n. strand.... ncad was brilliant for adding a concept to your skills,but i was very greatful to have the skills going in because we dont get taught much of the basic skills of drawing and painting etc....

the others who did not apply to college,either went onto manor hamilton in sligo to speciaise in sculpture or got studios and applied to exhibitions or worked from home.... everyone got so much out of it,thought i would share that experiece i had because it gave me so much which led onto other artistic oppertunities x

Rockhound wrote: »

Hey Hydro

I know a sculptor by the name of Ken Drew holds a woodcarving course in Dublin city. He has a website. Google him and drop him a line

snorlax wrote: »

been to a good course in either art or crafts? setting up a course? for all course related post please post in this thread only.

name of course/ contact or website address/ what they do / and why you would recommend them. any posts out side of this sticky advertsing such courses will be deleted so please use this sticky as a resources.

the one i would recommend (seen as someone resurrected the thread below this)

is http://dublindays.myhosting247.com/index.html and http://trinityartsworkshop.blogspot.com/

mainly made up of non-students, classes are small, teacher is good and all materials inlcuded. not too dear either (10eur for non-students). pm me or check website for more details. they also do pottery and life drawing 4/5days a week


Materials are supplied for all classes. Classes are run an a come as you
please basis apart from those marked with an asterix- these are run as a
series of weeks which must be taken together.

• Talks on the History of Irish Lace with Máire Treanor and Nora Finnegan, two of Irelands finest lace-makers.
• A viewing of ‘'Irish Lace' from *Hands* a series of documentaries made for RTE in the 1970’s and 1980’s, on the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland.
• Question and Answers session at the end of the seminar, where you can bring along your antique lace to be identified by Máire and Nora.
• Book launch of Clones Lace and Youghal Lace

Brid83 wrote: »

Art Attacks Balgaddy" exhibition
Calling all artists/ photographers/ crafters,

We are hosting an art exhibition in Archbishop Ryan Senior National School. We are situated on the Balgaddy Road (just off Fonthill), Lucan.
We are looking for adult artists/ crafters/ photographers to exhibit. The exhibition will be held on Friday May 27th- Saturday 29th. Artists/ photographers/ crafters must be available to hang or display their work on Thursday 26th. The fee for each artist/photographers /crafter is €10 and 10% of sales will go into a school fund. If you are interested, please contact me and I will fill you in on the rest of the details.

Kind regards,
Bríd