Crafts and
Heritage Week
Fiona Byrne, Education Manager
Design & Crafts Council of Ireland29th of March 2019
ABOUT DCCoI
Our Vision
Ireland is recognised and valued for its culture of
design and craft.
Our Mission
We are the national agency for the commercial
development of Irish designers and makers,
stimulating innovation, championing design thinking
and informing Government policy.
Why Craft?
Rich history of traditional
craft making
Especially notable are textiles:
Lace making
Sybil Connolly
Woolen Mills
Handling objects or materials
allows us to feel its weight,
discover its texture and maybe
smell a scent of the past.
Touch allows us to explore in a
physical way enabling us to
ascertain a new form of
knowledge of materials,
process or object.
Images: Kathy Mooney CPD workshop for Junior Cycle Teachers
• Transcend literacy issues
• Access to all ages and abilities
• Investigation, experimentation, discovery – not being told
• Persons brings own experience and context to the activity• Objects, materials, process as external catalysts for conversation
Images: DCCoI Centres of Excellence in jewellery and goldsmithing, and ceramics
Sample Activities
Making Places: Sharing
Heritage
Bere Island
Intergenerational Project
supported by West Cork
Education Centre and
the Bere Island
Community Group and
deliver by maker Liz
Flatman.
European Year of
Cultural Heritage
• 21 Schools
• Heritage Council Certificates for schools
• Showcase & Creative workshop in partnership with Narrative4
www.learncraftdesign.ie
Booked Classes:
Know numbers in advance
Set time
Can control age range
Easy to cost materials
Images: Top – Fergus Grant Stevenson
metal workshop for Heritage week 2018
Bottom – Mary Conroy clay workshop for
Heritage Week 2018
Drop in activities:
Informal
All day – flexible
Group conversation
‘Have a go’
Images: Drop in activities at Narrative4, Limerick for
Heritage Week 2018
Partnership:
Do more together
Combine skills
Share work load
Image: Objects from story exchange
held with Narrative4 for Heritage Week
2018
Exhibition:
Open access
Enables word to spread – there for more than one day
Showcase longer term projects
Images: Selection of CRAFTed projects being showcased for Heritage Week
Where to find craftspeople
Lustre
Lina Siaudvytyte
DCCoI Education Panel
Professional craftspeople and designers
Interviewed
Experienced
Child Protection trained
CPD trained
Garda vetted
Guilds, Associations,
Networks and Societies
Membership organisations that are associated with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) include Guilds, Associations, Networks and Societies (GANS).
Spiddal Craft and Design Studios have formed a close partnership with the Traidphicnic Traditional Music Festival.
Combining traditional music and craft and design workshopsand demonstrations attract an audience that has a strong appreciation of the rich Irish heritage of craft and music.
Blackstack Studios 1,220
Bridge Street Studios 1,275
Ceardlann Spiddal Craft & Design Studios 2,000
Ceramics Ireland 4,000
Clare Crafts Association 1,500
Cork Craft & Design 4,000
Cork Textiles Network 3,400
Council of Irish Fashion Designers 2,850
Feltmakers Ireland 1,500
Glass Society of Ireland 1,500
Guild of Irish Lacemakers 2,000
Irish Artist Blacksmiths Association 1,900
Irish Patchwork Society 2,500
Louth Craftmark Designers Network 3,000
Made in Westmeath 1,000
MADE in Kilkenny 2,500
Na Piobairi Uilleann Teoranta 1,500
New Ross Needlecraft Ltd. (The Ros Tapestry) 1,140
Print Block 2,000
Society of Cork Potters 900
The Leitrim Design House 2,000
The Quilters Guild of Ireland 3,000
West Cork Craft & Design Guild 1,000
Wexford Craft Trail 1,000
Thank you@DCCoI
@DCCoIedu
www.dccoi.ie
www.learncraftdesign.ie
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