Art Textile

Overview

This unique course offers a chance to enter Third Level as a part-time student to concentrate on textiles as an expressive medium within an Art College environment. This is a special opportunity to work with senior staff from both textiles studio and academic studies in the BA programme of Contemporary Applied Art. The course is challenging, individualised, but very supportive. It encourages dialogue and group learning, while facilitating each student's individual growth as a textile artist. 

What will I study?

This is a two year course:

Year One integrates lectures and seminars (Mondays) with textiles studio (each Tuesday). Year One is a balance between essays, discussions, and presentations with the technical challenges of the broad range of textile techniques presented (stitch/print/weave/felt/paper/3d/basketry). In the second Semester, studio projects challenge creative investigation and research toward finished works around project themes.

In Year Two only the Tuesday studio course is held, and is grounded in weekly group research discussions and seminars presenting samples and works in progress for feedback and development. Individuality and innovation are encouraged as final works evolve toward exhibition presentation. As a bonus, additional textiles research challenges entered alongside full-time Applied Art students provide opportunities to exhibit both in the city and internationally.

Entry Requirements

By portfolio interview in College.

Fees

Year One: €1,500

Year Two: €800

Please note that applicants will be required to pay an acceptance fee of €300 online if a place on a course is offered. This fee is deductible from the overall course fee. 

Note: You will not be charged for applying for the programme by clicking the 'apply now' button; you are only asked to pay an acceptance fee if a place is offered to you, and you wish to accept it.

Career options

Art Textile gives a grounding in textile culture, history, and an overview of the range of processes and textile languages. Our graduates are teaching classes and workshops, exhibiting nationally and internationally, pursuing further advanced study in CCAD and elsewhere in Ireland. 

Progression

Art Textile:

• provides a structured and thorough immersion in textile making and textile culture, balancing studio and academic challenges.
• nurtures the research development of individual artistic languages in textiles, in the context of contemporary fine art and applied art practice.
• forms a supportive and inspiring peer group of like-minded textile makers, taught by senior lecturing staff of the MTU Crawford who also teach on the fulltime Fine Art and Applied Art Degree.
• offers project involvement and exhibition opportunities shared alongside the fulltime Contemporary Applied Arts Degree, such as recent exchange projects with Estonian and Lithuanian textile departments.
• can be a pathway into full-time Applied Art concentration at Advanced Level. Several graduates have undertaken Masters by Research in CCAD with this certificate and prior BA.