Morning Animation Camp for children aged 8 – 12 years
The Animation Camp is now fully booked.
Week 1 Monday 1 July – Friday 5 July
Week 2 Monday 8 July – Friday 12 July
Camps are 1 week long, Monday to Friday. 10am-1pm
Fee is €100 / All materials supplied. Draw and play with a variety of materials in a friendly space. Create imaginative characters, dream up your own stories, learn about animation and make a movie using stopmotion studio pro.
We have been following our noses into art with young people and Cork Migrant Centre.
We meet on Zoom on Saturdays to chat, draw, make things, talk about our week and have silly fun. Crawford Art Gallery sends an art pack to each child, and Artist Julie Forrester comes to each zoom session with a suggested creative idea or technique. Then, we follow our nose!
Our video diary is made from zoom screenshots from our time together, it features young creators Evrald ,James, Kego, Ephraim, Elliel, Israel, Ariel, Noemi, Abigail, Erza, Lalia, Adham, Natasha, Yvonne, Zainab, Martin, Griffin, Ula, Uka, Olisa, Rex, Wayne, Alejandra, Jemima, Lea, John and Michael supported by Artist Julie Forrester, Youth worker Fionnuala O’Connell at Cork Migrant Centre and Crawford Art Gallery.
What to expect? • You can explore the gallery with a friendly guide • Enjoy a warm cuppa in the gallery library • Meet members of new communities • Guidance in using mono-printing, paint and collage to create your own artwork • Meet-Ups are for adults and no experience is needed • Places are free but limited, booking is essential.
Oide Creativity, in collaboration with artist Stephen Doyle and Crawford Art Gallery, presents a two-day elective workshop for teachers.
It takes place on 19th and 20th June 2024 at the Backwater Artists Group studios and the Crawford Art Gallery.
This workshop offers the participants an opportunity to:
explore identity through portraiture and the use of symbolism
examine and apply principles of colour theory using acrylic paints
develop and apply practical painting techniques to create a self-portrait
Stephen Doyle is a member of Backwater Artists Group and a graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design. Stephen explores issues of queer identity through the relationship between figuration and the politics of representation. They are the recipient of two international art prizes ‘Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize’ & ‘Sunny Art Prize’. Their work was acquired by Crawford Art Gallery making it the first piece in the National Collection to openly discuss transgender/queer identity.
Oide is a support service for teachers and school leaders, funded by the Department of Education. This workshop is fully booked.
Wiff Waff* is Playing at My Gaff: Cruinniú na nÓg Challenge
Saturday 15 June, 2 – 4pm, Upper Gallery
Come and play ping pong with an unhinged twist. These are no normal ping pong tables but Artist-made Krazy Tables from the National Novelty Ping Pong Table Collection! Can you complete the crazy Cruinniú na nÓg challenge? Each table will have a specific task to uncover, tick them all off and win a small prize!
Free | Open to all | No booking required
*Wiff Waff is an old name for table tennis.
King Ping Pong is the fever-dream of curator Davey Moor, with tables designed by artists: David Lunney, Tanad Aaron, Dáire McEvoy, Liliane Pudhod, Prendergast & Moor, Ella Bertilsson and a brand new commission from Cork Artist Elinor O’Donovan.
No booking required but places are limited so arrive early to avoid disappointment. Friends €5 | General Public €8 | Students go free with a valid I.D.
Baroque sensation Caravaggio is never far from the imagination of art lovers. Furthermore, we need only think of Andrew Graham-Dixon’s famous biography Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (2010) to remember the jarring contradictions present in his life – the creator of a Counter-Reformation painting style of stirring spirituality, and simultaneously the frequently-imprisoned brawler forced to flee Rome for murder. The last years of Caravaggio’s short life were spent in exile. From Naples, to Malta, to Sicily, and back to Naples, Caravaggio evaded authorities and completed his last paintings. Sometimes pious, often shockingly violent, and at times self-deprecating, these late paintings offer a fascinating image of the artist in exile. This talk parallels with the upcoming exhibition in London’s National Gallery entitled ‘The Last Caravaggio’ (18 April-21 July 2024), offering an introduction to the ways in which we can think about the works of an artist in crisis.
Delve deeper into the themes that connect us to St. Brigid with a family friendly art workshop led by Artist Queenie O’Sullivan.
2:00 – 3:30pm Sunday 4 & Monday 5 February Free and open to all! We will also have a self-led trail with fun St Brigid themed activities available to pick up at different points in the gallery all weekend!
See the rest of the St Brigid’s day programme here.
We would like to invite you to the gallery for a relaxed visit with the opportunity to try some kitchen-table print making and card-making.
With our partners from SECAD, we will welcome members of the Ukrainian community in an informal and relaxed setting. You can expect gentle, guided creativity and a warm cuppa. Places are free but limited, booking is essential.
The exhibition ALL EYES ON US explores who gets to look at whom and prompts questions of power and performance. We have designed resource packs to support Primary and Secondary school students in their exploration of the exhibition. We have also created a group resource for anyone bringing a group to the gallery!
Connect with the imaginative world of Harry Clarke in a family-friendly workshop.
Explore delicate illustrations, watercolour studies, and earliest works in stained glass in the exhibition HARRY CLARKE: Bad Romance, then you are invited to join artist Queenie O’Sullivan in the L&E studio to create your own stained glass-inspired artworks.
For her first solo exhibition at Crawford Art Gallery, Persistent Illusion, artist Rita Duffy presents a trilogy of new, largescale works that address urgent themes of planetary crisis and political chaos. We have designed a resource pack to support Senior Cycle students in exploring this exhibition and forming their own opinions. It is especially relevant to the leaving cert section: Visual Studies Today’s World Art as Social Commentary or Commentator.
Devised by Ciara Wall Download the Resource Booklet here.
Unfortunately, at the moment all of our classes are subscribed to maximum capacity. If any places in the classes become available, they will be advertised on our mailing list and allocated on a first come first serve basis.
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Children’s Art Classes
Fully Booked
We run Saturday art classes for children aged 8 - 12 years. Classes aim to build confidence, exploring techniques and materials through drawing, colour and making. The fee is €100 for 10 classes, which includes all art materials.
The time slots are: 10am - 11.30am 11.15am - 12.45pm
Teen Art Classes
Fully Booked
We run Thursday evening Classes for senior cycle students. 6pm – 7:30pm
Draw inspiration from art in the gallery - study art works up close - create your own responses - develop your ideas using drawing, print and paint.
Fee is €75 for 10 workshops, all art materials supplied.
We are delighted to welcome students to the Gallery for guided visits. Visits are suitable for students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Guided visits may be tailored to the curriculum or support young people and teachers’ own exploration. These visits will encourage speaking confidently about art and the development of the students’ viewpoints.
We are delighted to welcome students to the Gallery for guided visits. Visits are suitable for students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Guided visits may be tailored to the curriculum or support young people and teachers’ own exploration. These visits will encourage speaking confidently about art and the development of the students’ viewpoints.
Crawford Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of Harry Clarke’s watercolours and ink drawings has returned!
Harry Clarke was an artist who put a lot of details and patterns into his Art. You can see this in the PHANTOMS & PHANTASIESexhibition on the top floor of thegallery.
Why not visit this exhibition and get some inspiration from Clarke’s colours and designs that you can recreate at home?
We would love to hear your stories and artworks inspired by PHANTOMS & PHANTASIES! Share them with us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using the #crawfordartgalleryhomelife.
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Lonradh Activity Pack 1
Tea Time
Sharing a cup of tea has always been central to the Lonradh sessions. So we would like to invite you to share a cup of tea with us. So many stories get shared over a cup of tea: Puttng the kettle on, tea pots - warming the pot, pouring the tea, the familiar feel and weight of a much used tea pot. Gettng out the cups, the feel of your favourite cup in your hands, the warmth of the tea. The careful handling of the good cups, a gift for a wedding, an anniversary. Cups or mugs? Does tea taste better in a china cup? Tea caddies for teabags, or loose leaf tea, tea strainers, reading the leaves. The smell of tea, different types of tea, Barry’s Tea, Builder’s tea. How do you make tea? Do you scald the pot first? Do you leave it brew? Milk in first? How many tea bags? Songs and sayings “Tea for two and two for tea……”, ‘and one for the pot’, ‘tea you could trot a mouse on’, ‘it’s like dishwater’. In this envelope you will find some prints from the Crawford Art Gallery’s permanent collecton. We chose these partcular art works because we felt they worked well with the ideas presented above. Would you like to draw your favourite cup or tea pot?
Suggested Activities
Feel free to try any or all of the following suggestions. Try to use the sketch book provided as much as possible. Take your favourite item associated with tea/tea making and draw it.
Create a simple print using carbon paper. Put the shiny side of the carbon paper face down on your sketchbook page. Use a sharp pencil or biro to draw on the carbon paper. Lift the paper every so open to have a look at your drawing. The carbon paper will make the drawing look like a print.
Tea can stain, so if you brush it onto paper or soak the paper in a bowl of cold tea, when dry it will give an aged look.
List some thoughts that come to mind associated with tea.
Such as, the sound of the kettle boiling, the feel of the tea leaves, the smell of loose tea, freshly made tea.
Can you think of any sayings you might know about tea? For example, ‘So strong you could trot a mouse on it or so weak you’d take it outside for fear it would faint’ ‘Life is like a cup of tea, it’s all in how you make it’
How about a poem or a song?
We‘ve found one: The Old Woman of the Roads by Padric Colum…” (see page 4). Do you know of any others?
Have a look at the artworks reproduced in this Art Envelope. Which artwork do you like best and why?
O, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped up sods against the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down! A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown! I could be busy all the day Clearing and sweeping hearth and floor, And fixing on their shelf again My white and blue and speckled store! I could be quiet there at night Beside the fire and by myself, Sure of a bed and loth to leave The ticking clock and the shining delph! Och! but I'm weary of mist and dark, And roads where there's never a house nor bush, And tired I am of bog and road, And the crying wind and the lonesome hush! And I am praying to God on high, And I am praying Him night and day, For a little house - a house of my own Out of the wind's and the rain's way.
Padraic Colum Favourite Poems We Learned in School, chosen by Thomas F. Walsh.
Menagerie: Animals by Artists
You can discover all sorts of animals in art with our brand-new exhibition called Menagerie: Animals by Artists. The word menagerie means a collection of wild animals that have been captured so that people can see them in an exhibition.
To celebrate this exhibition, together with artist Annie Forrester and 5th class Blarney Street Boys National School, we have co-created an animal art poster, a super colouring page, and some wild animal gifs.
You can go wild with our colouring sheet. Click on the image below to download it.
Discover drawings of animals by 5th class Blarney Street CBS in the slideshow below.
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Beak
Bird
Fox
Elephaunt
Shark
Giraffe
Phoenix
Gifs are tiny animations, click on the play button below to see drawings in motion!
Click on the images to explore more playful animal activities
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