Artist's Blogs

The Ark were selected as Young People, Children, and Education (YPCE) Artists in Residence for the academic year 2024/'25, funded by The Arts Council. Students from DCU’s Professional Master of Education (Primary Teaching) course joined artists from The Ark in St Patrick’s Campus this semester for workshops showing how art, drama, and music can be integrated in lessons around climate change with artists Jane Groves, Ríona Sally Hartman, and Joanna Parkes. Take a read of Joanna's blog below about her experience.

Musician Ríona Sally Hartman reflects on her experience working with The Ark on Nomad, an in-school music workshop and performance programme in partnership with the Community Foundation.

We invited this years’ John Coolahan Early Years Artist in Residence, Monica Muñoz to tell us about her experiences so far as part of this initiative...

Earlier this year, musician and vocal tutor Anita Mahon was engaged to deliver our first Summer Provision music workshops to schools online. Below, Anita recounts the challenges and limitations of working for the first time in a remote online format, as well as some of its unexpected joys.

This June, as part of the Ark Access Programme for Schools, illustrator Duffy Mooney-Sheppard delivered original online visual art workshops for groups of school children while they were at home due to the Covid-19 restrictions in June. Here, Duffy recounts the imagination and joy shared during these sessions.