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Ballymakenny College, Drogheda, Co. Louth
This Creative Engagement Project involved 23 fifth-year art students collaborating with a local ceramic artist to design and create individual ceramic sculptures inspired by mythological creatures and folklore. The initiative was developed in response to students’...
St. Brendan’s Community School, Birr, Co. Offaly
This Creative Engagement Project explored the themes of identity and belonging through painting and mixed media with Transition Year students. Students were encouraged to reflect on their personal experiences, interests, memories, and connections to their community...
Davis College, Mallow, Co. Cork
Harper's bird illustrations in Marquetry The Davis College Creative Engagement Project invited Transition Year and 5th-year students to bridge the gap between art and construction through the traditional craft of marquetry. Collaborating with crafts-person John Hewer,...
Castlerea Community School, Co. Roscommon
Led by artist Patrick Strahan, this two-day workshop immersed Senior Cycle students and students from the Solas Room into the ancient art of blacksmithing.The project focused on "old world" techniques, including thermal management, drawing out, and scrolling. Students...
Mount St Michael Secondary School, Clairemorris, Co. Mayo
Elements in Clay transformed an underused outdoor area between the Art and Geography classrooms into a vibrant, interactive space for students to create, connect, and reflect. Developed in collaboration with ceramic artist Andrew Ilsley, the project focused on...
Scoil Mhuire Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Wet Felting Creative Engagement Project Second-year Art students at Scoil Mhuire Buncrana participated in a two-week wet felting project in collaboration with Gabrielle Henry. Over six workshop days, 40 students explored both dry needle felting and wet felting...
Coláiste Pobail Osraí, Kilkenny
Painting our Environment In their Creative Engagement Project they wanted to capture the currant location of their school as they are hoping to move to a new site. Their Kilkenny heritage is very important to them as is their school environment. They looked at...
Ardscoil na Mara Secondary School, Tramore, Co. Waterford
Miss Driver and Students from Ardscoil na Mara Secondary School, Tramore, Co. Waterford enjoyed their experience of working with Artist Declan O Meara on a mixture of Landscapes from their local environment and Self Portraits completed in Oil Pastels. The finished...
CBS High School, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
This Creative Engagement Project consisted of a series of 2-day workshops for each class/group.During these two days, the participants made their stop motion animations, which involved groups given an iPad/ Tablet and taskedwith developing a story/concept through a...
Recent News and Updates
Application Forms
Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-2026 Academic year of Creative Engagement. Applications can be made online, https://www.napd.ie/committees/arts-culture
The closing date for Creative Engagement applications is October 19 2024.
The application form is on the website under FORMS. Once you have been accepted we will inform you by email. From this year successful applicants will have to send an online pre evaluation form and later a post evaluation form to Creative Youth. It is straight...
Welcome back to all schools.
Creative Engagement Application Forms are now available to be filled in online. Please note there is no guarantee the programme will proceed this year as there is restructuring in NAPD. However we are optimistic that everything will proceed as normal. We will know...
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It is an arts-in-education programme. This entails an artist or artists coming into the school to work with the students. A creative engagement happens when a local artist or arts group comes into the school and imparts their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to the students. This partnership has mutual benefits to both artist and school. Creative Engagement programme encompasses the arts in its broadest manifestation, from the visual arts to music, from theatre to dance and all the arts in between.
The Creative Engagement programme strives to encourage creativity, initiative and expression in our students and to complement curricular learning in the arts , heritage and culture. NAPD envisions an education system energised through the arts and where creativity is a core activity in the post primary curriculum. The NAPD Arts Culture and Heritage committee celebrates its twenty fourth anniversary this year 2023. The Arts Culture and Heritage committee has been administering the Creative Engagement programme in schools since 2005.