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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...
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...
Recent News and Updates
Welcome back & Exhibition
Welcome back to schools and to arts in education. The first physical Annual Creative Engagement Exhibition will be held in the National Indoor Sports Arena November 29 2023. The Exhibition will be opened by author and film script writer Roddy Doyle. Further details...
Thank you
Thank you everyone who was involved in Creative Engagement 2022-23. We intend to hold an Exhibition of the 2022-23 work on November 29 in the National Indoor Sports Arena, Dublin. Applications for Creative Engagement 2023-24 will be accepted up to October 16 2023....
Arts in Education Portal Day
The National Arts in Education Portal Day takes place on November 5 in TUD. There is a wonderful array of arts, speakers, workshops to be seen on the day. Creative Engagement have been big supporters of the Arts in Education Portal and NAPD are on the editorial...
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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.