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TransActions #2 – Field and Academy: Knowledge and Counter Knowledge in Socially-Engaged Art
Editorial Fiona Whelan, Joint Coordinator/Lecturer MA Socially Engaged Art + Further Education, NCAD Dr. Ailbhe ...
INTERVIEW Dr. Gregory Sholette
Dr. Gregory Sholette, New York based artist, writer and activist is interviewed by Fiona Whelan, artist and joint ...
Socially-Engaged Art & Social Enterprise: Creativity on the brink….
Dr. Kevin Ryan School of Political Science & Sociology, NUIG The sociological imagination is sometimes ...
Critical gaps: a curriculum for socially-engaged art
Fiona Woods, Artist and part-time lecturer MA SEA+FE, NCAD In socially-engaged art, several distinct ...
How People Come Up with Ideas
Jennie Guy Artist, Writer and Independent Curator My practice is based on independent curatorial research ...
Arba Minch Art Project: the evolution of an art education project
Helen Carey Director, Fire Station Artists’ Studio and Independent Curator This project took place in ...
Between Mythos and the Curriculum: the Arcade Project as a Mode of Pedagogical Enquiry
Dr. Ciaran Smyth, Vagabond Reviews Pedagogy is a school of thought and a weapon. ...
Mega-Spectacles of Engagement
Dr. Connell Vaughan, Lecturer in Visual Culture, DIT/ Lecturer MA SEA+FE, NCAD (2016) What’s in a ...
The Art of Self-Education: Shifting school models through artistic inquiry
Allison Peters Quinn, Curator at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, interviews artists Jim Duignan of Stockyard ...
Creative producers and the communities of tomorrow
Katherine Atkinson, Project Support and Professional Development, Create & Lars Ebert, European Academy of ...
Image Liz Smith, artist and student MA SEA + FE, NCAD
MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education), NCAD, Class of 2015-17
TransActions #1 Chicago Editorial, Looking out over a city from Chicago
Jim Duignan I grew up in Chicago, in the moments of mural movements and ...
TransActions #1 Dublin Editorial, A tale of two cities…
Fiona Whelan & Glenn Loughran Transaction: a communicative action or activity involving two parties1 or ...
Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?
Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D. | Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at ...
The Care-Less State of Ireland: Why we need to challenge the Charity model of Social Justice
Kathleen Lynch | Kathleen Lynch is Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice, University ...
Art, Activism, Vulnerability and Noble Calls
Liz Burns | Liz Burns is Arts Programme Manager, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. ...
Pulp Feminism: Radical Social Histories in Hand Papermaking
Melissa Potter | Melissa Potter is an artist and Associate Professor and Director of the Book & Paper Program ...
MODE : D
Glenn Loughran | Glenn Loughran is an Artist and educator working in the National College of Art and Design ...
Reading difficult text in difficult times: A Conceptual Art Move for A Conceptual Art Time
Jorge Lucero | Jorge Lucero is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of ...
Dublin: Design and Decline
Alan Mee | Alan Mee is an architect working in urbanism, architecture, research and education at ...
An Interview with Sarah Ross of Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project with Heath Schultz
Sarah Ross & Heath Schultz | Sarah Ross is an artist and teaches at the School of the Art Institute ...
Cultural Cowardice: Contemporary arts policy and practices in Ireland and their failure to engage citizens and neighbourhoods in the process of community arts and socially engaged arts practices.
Niall O’ Baoill | Niall O Baoill is a fifty five year old friend of learning and sometimes community / youth and ...
Step High, Stoop Low: Yeats and Larkin in Chicago
Paul Durica | Paul Durica is a writer and Programs Coordinator for the Arts Club of Chicago. ...
Using Community Arts to Defeat Austerity
John Bissett | John Bissett is a community worker and activist. To whom it may concern, my name is John ...
The Politics of Listening
Fiona Whelan | Fiona Whelan is an artist and Joint Coordinator of the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Critical Practice Questions
MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & Community Education) class 2013–15: Adele Kidd, Anne Marie ...
Hope and Fear for Collaboration
Anne Marie Gerardi | Anne Marie Gerardi is a visual artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art ...
An Irrational Equation
Jackqualyn Gray | Jackqualyn Gray is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Socially Engaged Art and Pedagogical Practice: Parameters, Practices and Policies in the Formation of Teachers, Artists and Educators
Gary Granville & Nuala Hunt | Nuala Hunt is Head of Continuing Education and Joint Coordinator of MA Socially ...
Social Practice and Public Art: A survey of socially engaged art in Dublin City Council’s Public Art Programme
Gráinne Finn | Gráinne Finn is an independent curator and programme manager with the Irish Landscape ...
The Act Itself is not Enough
Louise White | Louise White is a Dublin based theatre-maker and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, ...
The Monto Cycle, 4 Projects and 5 years of Working On Site in North Inner City Dublin
Owen Boss | Owen Boss is a visual artist, co founder and co-artistic director of ANU. ...
Jane Addams and the Tradition of Community Arts Practice in Chicago
Richard Siegesmund | Richard Siegesmund is a Professor of Art and Design Education in the School of Art at ...
Build a Free Culture Space in Chicago
Stockyard Institute | Jim Duignan is an artist and Program Director of the Visual Art Education Program ...
Jacinda Julio
Jacinda Julio The birth of Chicago’s ½ Pints Poetics (HPP) dates back to the mid 90’s, when Kuumba Lynx ...
What should revolutionary artists do now?
Susy Bielak | Susy Bielak is an artist and the Associate Director of Engagement and Curator of Public Practice at ...
Ad for Socially Engaged practitioners
Jane Butler | Jane Butler is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Lucky Pierre’s Final Meals Project
Michael Thomas | Michael Thomas is the co-founder of Lucky Pierre, a collaborative group working in writing, ...
Kuumba Lynx
Jacinda In his nonfiction "history of a fiction," Jeff Chang ends his prelude stating " there are many more ...
Create Collaborative Art and the City
Ailbhe Murphy | Ailbhe Murphy is an artist and Director of Create, the National Development Agency for ...
Milton’s Lens
Chris Maguire | Chris Maguire is a Dublin based artist and community activist and teaches on the MA Socially ...
Direct Provision Centers as Manifestations of Resistance
Vukašin Nedeljkovic | Vukašin Nedeljkovic is a PhD candidate at Centre for Transcultural Research and Media ...
CITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: LESSONS FROM THE LAISSEZ-FAIRE METROPOLIS
Jennifer Gray | Jennifer L. Gray is an Art and Architectural Historian at Columbia University and an educator ...
CAPE
Hilesh Patel and Scott Sikkema Authors’ note: because there are two authors, we refer to ourselves in ...
96 Acres and Project NIA: Building an anti-incarceration infrastructure
Bert Stabler | Bert Stabler is a Renaissance man occupying the prairie. ...
