Residencies

The residencies are open to all artform and arts-practice areas and aim to:

Provide opportunities for artists to develop their skills and experience in education settings, and to develop their artistic work in a collaborative and supportive environment
Provide opportunities for teaching staff/lecturers in initial teacher education and early childhood education and care to engage with practising artists in creating bespoke, creative initiatives with and for their students
Support future teachers and early-years educators to engage with practising artists as part of their learning experience
Support future teachers and early-years educators to develop the skills and confidence to facilitate arts experiences for the children in the schools and settings where they work, and to champion the arts in these settings.

The Arts Council aims to support residencies across a diversity of artforms, with a diversity of artists, arts organisations and educational institutions.

For the 2023-2024 academic year, the Arts Council is pleased to support the following Residencies:

Host Institution	Resident Artist/ Arts Organisation	Summary
Atlantic Technological University	Cliodhna Noonan	Inspire and engage ECEC students, lecturers to engage in creative enquiry supporting skills, competence, attitudes. Presentation of creative arts experiences which support and nurture creativity in EY services and communities. Stakeholder collaboration: one academic conference, children's festival 0-6.
Dublin City University, President's Office	Dave Rudden	To allow a practising children's writer to creatively support DCU staff and students of initial teacher and early childhood education. To enable a children's writer to engage with students and staff of schools and arts organisations currently partnered with DCU.
Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education	Vera McEvoy	Froebel Dept will further develop the work of the residency by strengthening their flourishing Visual Art practice, based on the success of year 1, 22/23. Artist Vera McEvoy will deepen connections with staff and students through more planning opportunities and rich arts engagements.
Marino Institute of Education	Duffy Mooney-Sheppard	The playmakers residency invites and provokes the college community to participate in cross disciplinary, fearless play. Delivered through sessions co-led by two artists and accompanying participatory installation work. It fosters creative exchange, stimulating the artists' practices in the YPCE area.
Marino Institute of Education	Colm Ó Foghlú	An interdisciplinary arts exploration where students and staff have a strong voice in mentored collaborative approaches. A continuum of bilingual artistic engagements will strengthen, enliven and embolden existing and new communities of practice in MIE and support educators, students and artists alike.
Mary Immaculate College	Liam Mc Carthy	To champion the arts in MIC by 1) developing existing projects begun in 22/23: 'Unhappy Endings', 'Fergal' and Early Childhood Care and Education arts project and 2) developing a new play for young audiences and scripts/performances with students on a specialist drama education module.
NUI Maynooth Dept. of Education	Colm Keegan	Through collaboration with artist Colm Keegan, using literature and popular media, post-primary student teachers in Maynooth University Department of Education will develop more creative, holistic, cross-curricular approaches to incorporating the Social Development Goals into their subject area methods.
O' Donoghue Centre For Drama, Theatre And Performance, NUI Galway	Galway Community Circus	University of Galway will host Galway Community Circus to: Collaborate on innovative teaching, new research and novel curriculum creation in early childhood education, support the development of circus arts programmes for young children and promote the use of circus pedagogy in Irish children’s education.
South East Technological University - Carlow Campus	Siobhán Jordan	This residency will inspire ecologically sound creative expression among early childhood educators, building confidence in their artistic capabilities to increase their repertoire of nature-based art processes which can be meaningfully applied to climate action within early childhood settings.
TUS (Technological University of the Shannon) ECEC Programme	Joanna Parkes	To embed the Creative Arts in the Early Years programme, encouraging students to acknowledge their own creative impulses. To incorporate and explore how the Principles for Engaging with the Arts in Early Learning and Care can contribute to promoting quality early years learning and care experiences.

A full list of Residencies that have been supported in previous years is available below.

Multi-disciplinary artist Colm Ó Foghlú (Dublin City University Institute of Education)

Visual Artist Mark Joyce (Marino Institute of Education)

Visual Artist Maeve Clancy (Mary Immaculate College, University Limerick)

Traditional Musician Desi Wilkinson (Mary Immaculate College, University Limerick)

Theatre Artist Deirdre Dwyer (Mary Immaculate College, University Limerick)

Storyteller Peter Hussey (Maynooth University)

The following artists-in-residence have also been supported over the period 2012 – 2021:

Visual Artist Kevin Gaffney (Marino Institute of Education)
Composer Anne-Marie O’Farrell (Mary Immaculate College, University Limerick)
Branar Téatar do Pháistí (Mary Immaculate College, University Limerick)
CoisCéim Dance Theatre (St. Patrick’s College, now DCU Institute of Education)
Sheena Wilkinson, Alan Nolan, Claire Hennessy with Children’s Books Ireland (Church of Ireland College of Education, now DCU Institute of Education)
Dance artist Lisa Cliffe (Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education, Maynooth University)
The Fidelio Trio (St. Patrick’s College, now DCU Institute of Education)

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Residencies

YPCE Residencies support artists or arts organisations to spend an academic year in residence in a Higher Education Institution in Ireland that provides initial teacher education (primary, post-primary or further education) and/or a recognised qualification in early childhood education and care.

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