Certificate in Eco Arts Practice (Level 9)
Duration: One Academic Year (Part-time. 2-day blocks, once a month)
Course Fee: €1,540
Places on this programme
It is in your interest to apply for the programme as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
What is the course about?
This course invites you to dive deep into your creativity and nurture a more connected relationship with the natural world. It offers a regenerative space to explore, experiment, and express yourself through an embodied process, while developing a wide range of practical techniques for working in and with natural materials. A supportive and nurturing environment will be held for you to reflect on your journey and consider how it might shape your creative practice—and how you might carry your learning into broader contexts, extending creative regenerative practices into your community or professional field.
What will you be doing?
You will explore the use of natural materials, from harvesting, processing and using in creative processes.
You will learn processes such as work with cyanotype, anthotype, phytograms, felt-making, eco dying, eco printing, botanical dyes, making drawing and painting materials from minerals.
You will also explore your relationship to the materials through a critical thinking lens. Themes such as sustainability, life cycle of materials, honourable harvesting, values and ethics with woven throughout the course along-side case studies of contemporary practices and historical context of the materials. The programme will also integrate themes of wellbeing and mindfulness with eco arts practices.
Why do this course?
To learn novel technical skills in working with natural materials
To develop relationship to materials and to thing critically about their use
To gain skills that can be applied to a wide range of contexts including personal creative practices, formal and non-formal learning practices, therapeutic practices, coaching programmes, community and social practices
Career Opportunities
Arts in Social Care • Arts in Education • Arts programming Production Management • Arts programme Developer • Arts in Health programmes • Outreach Education programmes • Artist Engaged in Community Issues • Professional Artist • Gallery/Museum Education • Youth work • Community Education • Second Chance Learning • Community Development Officer • Arts in Health Practitioner
Contact
Course Enquiries:
Jessica Carson, Department of Arts in Health & Education
jessica.marbe@mtu.ie
For more information & to apply:
https://www.cit.ie/course/CRAEAPR9