Creative Engagement Project Showcase
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...
Mercy College Sligo
Mercy College's Creative Engagement Project is based on the concept of writing the story of Mercy College, focusing on our students. Students daily receive a lot of prompts from their teachers however, Mercy College really promotes wellbeing through activities like...
Bandon Grammar School, Co. Cork
Building on the success of their previous Creative Engagement mural project, this year’s initiative focused on strengthening connection, belonging, and wellbeing within the school’s boarding community through the creation of two large-scale murals in the boys’ and...
Colaiste Muire Máthair, Galway
Transition year students and Service users of St. Joseph's Training Centre Ability West met once a week for 4 weeks to learn how to make the traditional Irish percussion instrument the Bodhrán. Participants started by gluing the wooden frame together, sanding the...
Ballinode Community College, Co. Sligo
Patterns of Place The students of ballinode community college created a ceramic tile installation, based on the the theme patterns in place, firstly they visited newgrange for inspiration and then developed individual designs based on their current personal...
Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy, Co. Cork
Musical Showcase Our project focused on offering a series of drama and dance workshops to Transition Year students, culminating in an end of term performance. Through this initiative, we aimed to encourage participation in artistic performance to build self...

