This programme is aimed at creative practitioners, educators and facilitators. It has been developed in response to a specific industry need to align creative practice with facilitative interactive learning methodologies for alternative, community-based and expanded learning environments. The course explores how creative teaching can open up new ways of learning and working together. You’ll gain practical tools to design and facilitate collaborative learning experiences, drawing on your own practice and knowledge.

Duration: 24th Jan – 7th March 2025  

Format: Blended

6 x 3 hours on Saturdays 11:30am – 2:30pm, RuaRed + 3 x 1.5 hr online seminars

In-person sessions at Rua Red:

24th Jan – 11:30 – 14:30
31st Jan – 11:30 – 14:30
7th Feb – 11:30 – 14:30
14th Feb – 11:30 – 14:30
28th Feb – 11:30 – 14:30
7th Mar – 11:30 – 14:30

Location:
Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre
Plás Parthalán
Tallaght, D24 KV8N

• Explore models of facilitative, collaborative and experiential learning
• Develop tools for sharing creative processes, practices and ideas
• Expand your understanding of teaching as a creative, critical practice
• Examine the reach and impact of creative learning across diverse contexts
• Make informed judgements about different models of learning and teaching
• Investigate how creative practices can shape and transform learning environments
• Reflect on the role of creative pedagogy in your own professional practice

Guest lecturers will include

Cian Corcoran – Co-founder of Common Knowledge, Self Build

Graduates will be equipped with skills and knowledge that will enable them to build and enact learning practices across educational, community and cultural sectors: supporting inclusive, participatory approaches to teaching through creative practice.

Pre-requisites
All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)

As part of your application, you will be asked to upload the following supporting documentation:

1. A statement framing your reasons for applying to the programme, i.e. how attending the above selected course will benefit you and your practice  (500 words)
2. A recent CV
3. Certified transcripts of previous programmes followed
4. Certified copies of degree / certificates and/or other appropriate third level qualifications bearing the official stamp of the institution.
5. English Language Proficiency certificate 
   • This is only required if English is not your first language. 

You can see the full list of the English Language Qualifications NCAD recognises at this link. 

All new and continuing students will receive information by email on how to register and pay fees. For information on Fee Payment and Grant Eligibility go to NCAD Fees & Grants.

NCAD Students Handbook

The Handbook is available for download here

Continuing students and new postgraduate students who accepted the offer will start receiving ‘Invitation to Register’ emails from the week beginning 19th August.

More on the NCAD website.

Brendan Fox is an artist, curator, writer & Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) facilitator. He holds a BA in Fine Art from NCAD & received the Global Undergraduate Award for his graduate project Biopredation in 2012. In 2020 he received an MFA in Art in the Contemporary World from the National College of Art & Design which focused on the intersection of contemporary arts practice & community.  Fox has curated the work of hundreds of Irish & international artists in a broad spectrum of settings. He was project co-curator at Nag Gallery, Dublin, resident curator at Talbot Gallery, Dublin & is the founder, Director/Curator of Foundation Arts in association with Offaly County Council & the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He has devised numerous gallery & offsite exhibitions & has curated from the national collection at IMMA, Dublin. He has been the invited curator at Limerick School of Art & Design & the National College of Art & Design. 

Fox is the instigator of Games for Artists & Non-Artists at the IMMA in 2020 and is the founder of the Museum of Everyone (MOE), a multidisciplinary platform for artists & community-led initiatives focused on inclusion, diversity & active collaborations. MOE received the Dublin City Council Arts Office Incubation Space Award 2021-2022. 2021 also saw him devising a major exhibition entitled Spectacular Vernacular in association with Offaly Arts Office which received the In the Open | Faoin Spéir: an Arts Council funded programme developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

In 2022 he was invited inaugural curator/facilitator with Creative Futures Academy, UCD. As artists in residence in Galway Arts Centre Fox & Han Tiernan brought the Irish Names Quilt (1989) to be exhibited alongside the Turner Prize winning Array Collective’s ‘Druthaibs’ Ball” exhibition where they also developed a series of talks, workshops and events that explored queer histories in Galway. In 2023 he was invited by Array Collective to devise a performance at The Ulster Museum, Belfast. The same year saw Fox curate a program of events and performances at multiple  locations in Lazio, Italy entitled Paesaggi Affettivi in association with Compagnia Dei Lepini.

In 2021-2022 he held residences at IMMA, Void, Derry, Galway Arts Centre, The Dock, Leitrim, The Lab, Dublin which saw him elaborate on his ongoing research project Games for Artists & Non-Artists. Fox is currently devising projects in association with Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Giulianello, Italy, Chicago, USA and Reykjavik, Iceland.

Fox has facilitated talks/workshops with the Royal Hibernian Academy, IMMA, Void-Derry, Galway Art Centre, Goethe Institute, National College of Art and Design, VTOS Adult Education, Limerick School of Art and Design, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, UCD and Trinity College Dublin at The Innovation Academy. He is a facilitator of Visual Arts Ireland’s Lifelong Learning Program – Working with Curators. Fox is currently on the writing panel reviewing exhibitions for VAN Magazine and is one of the invited judges for the Global Undergraduate Awards 2012 -2023. 2019 has also seen him invited to the Irish national steering panel for – Erasmus+ Project – entitled GO UP – ” Building resilience and Intercultural competencies in refugees and asylum seekers through theatre techniques”