Learning Development: Placement programmes

What happens when fine arts students collaborate with communities to produce an artwork? The National College of Art and Design in Thomas St, Dublin initiated the Public Art Placement programme in collaboration with Create so that their students could do just that.

Now eight years on, the programme has become the Learning Development Programme - a unique initiative between NCAD, IADT Dun Laoghaire and the Tisch School of the Arts (New York University).

Students are paired with a number of organisations and groups in the Liberties area of Dublin. From January to April the students and group participants work closely together for a minimum of two contact hours per week. At the end of this time, the group and students produce art work or an arts project.

For further information  on the Programme and/or advice on developing a placement programme to assist emerging artists to develop the skills to work collaboratively in a variety of social contexts contact Lynnette Moran at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Student Artists (plus bios and portfolio sample) and Community Groups

Reading List and Resources

From Context to Exhibition, The LAB, Dublin City Council Gallery, Foley Street, D1
Exhibition 23 - 30 April and Talks series 24 -27 April - April 23-30

To watch the slideshow of the Talks series click here

This event was launched by Peggy Shaw, international performance artist on 23rd April. It consisted of an exhibition at The LAB, Dublin City Council and talks series featuring Faisal Abdu'Allah, Professor Mick Wilson, Paul O'Neill, Professor Milena Dragicevic Šešic and Jesse Jones (read more).

From Context to Exhibition presented the work of 2009 Student Artists made collaboratively with communities of place and/or interest.