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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.
Arts Administration students on induction week Walkabout in Cork City, visiting Camden Palce, with Tom Campell's "Dog Project", September 2011.
Photo, Lucia Creedon, student.
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 may include:
- Arts Event Management
- Arts and the Community
- Writing for the Arts Sector
- Marketing the Arts Sector
- Digital Photography
- Arts Appreciation with Collage
- Exhibition Techniques
- Digital Imaging
- Occupational First Aid with Certificate (optional)
SPECIAL FEATURES
Lectures, seminars, field trips, hands-on practical experience, 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.
Arts Administration maintains an on-site Student Collection that is up-dated yearly. Artists who have worked with this professional course, over the years, have been Maud Cotter; Michael Quane; Stephen Brandes and Linda Quinlan, to name a few. Participation in Culture Night and the Festival season(s), as volunteers, is part of the hands-on aspect of the course.
CSN maintains a Student Art and Design
collection as well as a Laboratory Gallery, in-house.
No Regrets: Victoria Tammadge shows her surprise when Christopher O'Regan, Eimear Kelleher and Judy Fisher mimic the art work 'Regret' which appeared in Beautiful Proof, the exhibition of Art and Design by students of CSN, May 2010. (Photo: Dan Linehan, The Examiner).
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FEES
Exam Fees – FETAC Level 6: €60
Exam Fees – First Aid: €15
Course Materials: €80
Field Trips/Study Visits: €30
Department of Education and Skills Fee: €200
Student Services: €220
Total: €605
"The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable."
Kurt Vonnegut
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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 Level 6 Arts Administration AAAXX
- 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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