DURATION
One Year full-time, FETAC Level 6.
CHNTO (UK) validation (Q-mark) formerly The Museum Training Institute, UK 

INTRODUCTION

The arts are for everyone.  People are the creators, people are the administrators and people are the audiences.  The role of the arts administrator in programming, audience-development., audience health and safety and “change management” are more relevant today than ever. We live in a world where globalisation is affecting everything we see and do.  Arts Administrators help to merge the old, the new and the beautiful in creative ways FOR the public to appreciate. 

Audience-building; marketing the arts; knowing quality graphic design and PR techniques; managing information for print both on websites and in the media; digital photography; exhibition techniques and design; community and family arts workshop-planning; writing about the arts and customer service in the community are features of this exciting, hands-on, practical course.  Arts Administration and arts in the community are “service” areas that bridge the arts. 

The student will come away with empathy for the artist and an understanding of the creative process. Skills-enhanced, the course gives students the opportunity to work with artists, filmmakers, curators and industry professionals.  Skills enhancement includes website up-dating; grants writing; graphic design development for PR; frame making and mat-cutting; exhibition and set design, plus front-of-house and information desk professionalism.  There is a high-level of self-exploration on the course. 

MAIN AREAS OF STUDY

• Arts Event Management
• Arts and the Community
• Writing for the Arts Sector
• Marketing the Arts Sector
• Digital Photography
• Arts Appreciation with College
• Exhibition Techniques
• Print Media Development
• Work Placement
• Communications
• Occupational First Aid*   with Certificate

SPECIAL FEATURES

Lectures, Seminars, field trips, hands-on practical experience and working with a curator, off-site, in city-centre; designing and implementing a full event; designing and implementing Community Workshops are features of this challenging and rewarding course. Understanding the cultural gap that too often exists between administrators and artists is underscored, opening up the progression towards bridging the gap. Guest curators working with Arts Administration have been: Maud Cotter (02); Michael Quane (03); Sarah O'Flaherty (04) and Noelle Noonan (05). CSN maintains a Student Art and Design collection as well as a Laboratory Gallery, in-house.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Excellent links with all local arts organisations provide exciting and practical work experience opportunities.

CAREER PROSPECTS

Students from the course have gone into direct employment in the arts. 3rd level opportunities exist at UCC, CIT, Dun Laoghire and UK universities. Progression from FETAC Level 5 Art courses to Community Arts.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Students are interviewed and places are awarded on suitability to a labour-intensive course. IT skills, particularly e-mail, required
for placement.

CERTIFICATION

• FETAC (NCVA) Level 5 in Arts Administration, EPAAX
• FETAC Level 6 pilot Community Arts) as carry on from Arts Administration, or other appropriate FETAC (NCVA) Level 5 course
• CHNTO validation, UK (formerly The Museum Training Institute)
• Occupational First Aid Certificate, full FETAC (NCVA) Level 5 module
• College Certificate - City of Cork VEC, with CHNTO validation

COURSE DIRECTOR

- Carol White

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