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Generation Seminar: Familial Legacies

As part of DCCI’s Get Ireland Making programme, National Design & Craft Gallery host a two part seminar on Wednesday 20 May, chaired by curators Frances Mc Donald and Muireann Charleton. It will include thematic panel discussions with ‘Generation’ exhibition makers on topics of Reinventing Tradition and Culture of Making. The aim of this seminar is to explore the narratives of relationships, generational influence and commonalities of family craft enterprises.

Bealtaine: Narrative Tools

National Design & Craft Gallery (NDCG) with textile artist Caroline Schofield invite you to participate in a collaborative project: Narrative Tools

We invite you to send us photographs of handed-down tools or inherited hand-made items, and tell us why it is important to you.

Making a Show - in store events for makers, by Eddie Shanahan

Join us on the 15th May at 3pm for ‘Making a Show - in store events for makers’ webinar led by Eddie Shanahan.

Get Ireland Making

Are you a maker, designer or craftsperson who would like to be involved in GET IRELAND MAKING?

Design & Crafts Council Ireland, supported by CreativeIrl, is commissioning online content that will ‘Get Ireland Making’. We hope this will provide inspiration to our friends and families and highlight the talent and skills of you, our makers.

NDCG Open Call for Exhibition Proposals 2021-23 EXTENDED DEADLINE

National Design & Craft Gallery invite innovative, ambitious and engaging exhibition proposals from professional curators, practitioners, galleries, partners and museums. In 2021 Design & Crafts Council Ireland will mark its’ 50th Anniversary, we particularly invite exhibition proposals which celebrate this milestone and look forward to the future of craft and design practice.