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Values Framework

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The Artist Mentoring Award, established in 2021, is for emerging collaborative socially engaged artists or artists who have a midcareer/established individual arts practice and are transitioning into collaborative socially engaged arts who are seeking support from a critical friend/guide as they develop their practice.

This Values Framework was researched and compiled by Dr. Ciaran Smyth, and outlines Create’s approach to mentorship within the scheme.
Create gratefully acknowledges the Mentors and team members who generously committed their time and thinking to the development of this Values Framework: Michelle Browne, Aisling Byrne, John Conway,
Cathy Coughlan, Aine Crowley, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, Sinead McCann and Kate O’Shea.

published 24 February 2026

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme
related programme Sharing Practice

What is an Island? Towards a Patchwork Pedagogy for a World Archipelago

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What is an Island? Towards a Patchwork Pedagogy for a World Archipelago

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The What is an Island? project was initiated in 2018 by artist and educator Glenn Loughran (TU Dublin / GradCAM) in collaboration with Uillinn director Ann Davoren and former director of Create, Ailbhe Murphy. Developed at the height of the Brexit negotiations, the project set out to explore the significance of islands and island imaginaries in art and education at a time of social, environmental and technological change. Situated within the context of the BA in Visual Art on Sherkin Island, the project was formed around a series of artistic research events that reflected on archipelagic thinking, climate change and the technosphere.

What is an Island? Towards a Patchwork Pedagogy for a World Archipelago captures each iteration of the project, through the Covid 19 pandemic and the emergence of the metaverse, through community, friendship, loss, and recovery. The publication includes an opening account of the project by Ann Davoren and Ailbhe Murphy, photographic representations of each iteration of the project, a deeply insightful text on the phenomenology of the island of Ireland by Anne O’ Byrne, and a pedagogical reflection by Glenn Loughran.

This book is available in print at all legal deposit libraries and via contact with Create.

published 24 September 2024

How Much Is Enough?

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Published in 2023 the booklet How Much is Enough? by Common Ground, Create and Half Letter Press, traces the richness and diversity of artist Kate O’Shea’s response to the Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood award 2020 – 2022.

The residency, located in studio 468 supported by Common Ground, was bolstered by a wide range of established community development organisations with a vibrant history of community-based cultural practice, which is explored in this publication. Featuring contributions from Dr Karen Till, Dr Krini Kafiris & Dr Eve Olney of The Radical Institute, and John Bissett, this publication provides a vital primer for the role of the artist in place at a critical juncture of social change and the conditions needed to support collaborative art practice.

published 25 January 2024

related programme Dublin 8 Neighbourhood Residency
related programme Multi-Story
related programme We Only Want The Earth
related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Field Notes IV: Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes IV: Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes IV marks the fourth and fifth Summer Schools, held in 2021 and 2022, and provides a retrospective overview of the first five years of the School.

The School, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts, brings together artists, activists, and thinkers for an intensive multi-day residential School (held virtually in 2020 and 2021). This publication features writings and contributions from School alumni including William Bock, Tatiana Santos, Alisha Doody, Ella Skolimowski alongside reflections by School programmers Áine O’Brien, Áine Crowley and Director of Create, Damien McGlynn.

published 12 June 2023

related programme Summer School
related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Field Notes III: Autumn School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes III documents the third School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, held virtually in October 2020.

The School, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts, brought together artists, activists, and thinkers over a number of days, through the virtual realm. This publication features writings from School participants and facilitators, including Abdullah Alkafri, Dr. Kit Braybrooke, Juan DelGado, Isabel Lima and a critical evaluation by external reviewer Dominik Czechowski.

published 1 March 2022

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme
related programme Summer School

Field Notes II: Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes II documents the second Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, held in July 2019.

The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a five day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. This publication features writings from Summer School participants and facilitators, as well as from Dr Ailbhe Murphy, director of Create and Dr Áine O’Brien, co-director of Counterpoints Arts, who frame the publication in light of the significant challenges to collaborative, socially engaged art presented by Covid 19

published 22 July 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme
related programme Summer School

Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice documents the first such Summer School in 2018, an initiative of the Arts Council.

The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a four day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. This publication features sketches and perspectives from participants alongside contributions from Ailbhe Murphy, director of Create, Áine O’Brien, co-director of Counterpoints Arts, Áine Crowley, Programme Manager, Arts and Engagement with Create, and Evgeny Shtorn, sociologist and Summer School participant.

published 1 July 2019

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme
related programme Summer School

Learning in Public

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Learning in Public

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Reflecting on the first four years of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), Learning in Public: transEuropean Collaborations in Socially Engaged Art offers a series of provocations on the role of collaborative and socially engaged arts. As well as providing a record of CAPP’s activities between 2014 and 2018, Learning in Public features contributions from the thinkers and writers Mick Wilson, Eleonora Belfiore, Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín and Susanne Bosch, and a series of dialogues between CAPP partners and artists.

Learning in Public is edited by Eleanor Turney and designed by David Caines.

published 30 August 2018

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Impossible Glossary

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Impossible Glossary

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Impossible Glossary is an editorial project by hablarenarte that follows the CAPP project until 2018.

The compendium of this second and printed edition of 2018 is comprised of ten chapters, adapted from the digital first edition of 2016. The publication features text and interviews on the themes of agency, autonomy, authorship, context, collaboration, work, return, trust failure, and institution.

published 3 August 2018

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme