Mary Carty

I’m giving a session on online promotion as part of “Mobility and Exchange in the Visual & Applied Arts” a Visual Arts Ireland seminar in the Ards Art Centre. You can sign up here. It’s going to be a fun and inspiring day.

Speakers include:

Artists involved in the Sustainable Craft Network, Ards; Deirdre Robb / Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council Northern Ireland; Adam Knights / Arts Projects Manager, Visiting Arts UK; Christoph Jankowski / European Information Manager at Visiting Arts, UK Cultural Contact Point for the European Commission’s Culture programme; Visual artist Maria McKinney, who participated on the Banff Residency, Peter Mutschler / Co-director and curator of PS² project space in Belfast and initiator of urban art projects and Mary Carty, Curator and CEO of Spoiltchild.com. The event will be chaired by Laura Graham visual artist and Visual Artists Northern Ireland contact point.

This seminar will highlight examples of current international projects such as the Leonardo Lifelong Programme ‘Sustainable Craft networks’, which Ards Borough Council and its Creative Peninsula network are involved in and similar Visual Art projects funded through the European Cultural Programme fund.  It will discuss: the experience of visual and applied artists who have engaged in projects funded through these programmes; examine the benefits of collaboration; sharing of knowledge and mobility for visual and applied artists at European level.

Schedule

9:30 Coffee & Registration

10:00 Intro to the day – Laura Graham (Chair / Visual Artist and Visual Artists Ireland Northern contact point)

10:05 Heather Parker, Craft Development Officer, Ards Borough Council

10:30 Peter Mutschler / Co-director and curator of PS² project space in Belfast and initiator of urban art projects. Discussing Rhyzom and international collaborations that PS2 have been involved in

11:00 BREAK

11:20 Christoph Jankowski European Information Manager at Visiting Arts, UK Cultural Contact Point for the European Commission’s Culture programme & Adam Knights Arts Projects Manager/ Visiting Arts

12:00 Maria McKinney, Visual Artists and recipient of the Banff Residency Award from ACNI

12:30 LUNCH

13:30 Deirdre Robb, Visual Arts Officer / Arts Council Northern Ireland

14:00 Open floor discussion & Summing up

Break Out  / Elective Talks

14:30 Mary Carty/ Spoiltchild Design discusses connecting with creative peers over the internet
or

Firstys –  Artists Group, Bangor discussing the development of their group and Networking Internationally

15:30

END

There will be questions and answers taken after each speaker