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