“Digital Art Week 2011″
In April 2011, we had Ireland’s first Digital Art Week for primary schools. Over the course of two weeks schools all over Ireland used digital tools such as Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia and more in order to learn about art and to create their own pieces of work. The idea of a Digital Art week sprang up from a Twitter conversation a couple of weeks before our school was due to start our own Art Week, which we hold every year.
With great support from loads of teachers around the country, there is now a permanent digital art gallery with 365 original images. The report of the event has been published in PC Live magazine and Leadership+, the IPPN’s magazine for principals.
Pamela O’Brien and Bernie Goldbach from the Tipperary Institute came up with a really nice idea for their annual ICT in Education conference. They asked if they could display a sample of the art at the conference and these were printed, framed and displayed in the entrance to the main lecture hall. The frames are now on display in our school. Contact has been made with Éigse, the Carlow Arts Festival, who have shown some interest in working with us next year. Who knows? We might see the frames in a real art gallery next year!