St. Patrick's Festival: Animal Transformations
Discover ancient tales of shapeshifting creatures and create your own in this book-making video workshop with visual artist Duffy Mooney-Sheppard for ages 5-12.

Discover ancient tales of shapeshifting creatures and create your own in this book-making video workshop with visual artist Duffy Mooney-Sheppard for ages 5-12.

Inspired by our Winter Light exhibition, artist Duffy Mooney-Sheppard will take your class on a short virtual tour of the artworks followed by an artistic adventure which will see children use their pencils as shovels to "dig" their way through imaginary underground tunnels.

Taking inspiration from artworks in The Ark’s Winter Light exhibition, artist Duffy Mooney-Sheppard will take you on a short virtual tour of our Online Gallery, followed by a journey which will see you use your pencil as a shovel to dig your way through underground tunnels.

Inspired by our Winter Light exhibition, artist Lucy Hill will guide children in your class to create their own animal drawings and play with shadow puppetry to imagine new animal stories.

Inspired by our Winter Light exhibition, artist Lucy Hill will guide children to create your own animal drawings and play with shadow puppetry to imagine new animal stories.

Like the first cave painters, let sound and music inspire you to create new artworks in this online visual art workshop with Kim Sharkey.

Orla Kelly leads this visual arts exploration of springtime through story, colour and shadow puppetry for children aged 2 to 4 and their grown-ups.

In our third in this series of online artists’ panel discussion events, we’ll reflect on and share more of what we’ve discovered in our continued adventures with new formats across art forms and how we are staying connected with our audiences of children.

Join artist Duffy Mooney Sheppard to create your own fairy parade and imagine the journey of these curious beings across the land on a fresh and star filled night.

Do you have a pair of socks that want to roar or a single sock which wants to swim? Transform old scrap material, bits of wool, worn old t-shirts and of course some socks, into a creature of your own.
