PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN OCTOBER

VAI and Townhall, Cavan in partnership with Cavan County Council are facilitating two workshops to assist artists price their own work and to write about their work.   Catriona O Reilly, arts officer with Cavan County Council encourages artists to attend these workshops "These skills are useful to artists irrespective of discipline or art form.  Visual Arts Ireland consistently support artists and we are deligthed to work with Townhall to bring this opportunity to the County.  Meeting with other like minded individuals can be a great benefit to artists particularly as many artists work in isolation and with a sole focus.   I stongly encourage artists to put the dates in the diary now."    Details below. 

WORKSHOP - Writing about your Work with Joanne Laws here

Saturday October 1,10am - 4.30pm, Venue: Townhall Cavan

Cost E40/20 (VAI Members) Places 10-12.

Professional Development workshop in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland, Townhall Cavan Arts Space and Cavan County Council Arts.

Joanne Laws is an arts writer and researcher based in the west of Ireland. She is curious about ethnographic and archival functions of the arts, as well as the role of arts education and research in generating new forms of knowledge. Joanne Laws is a member of AICA and a regular contributor to The Visual Artist’s News Sheet, where she serves on a panel of exhibition reviewers for the Critiquesection.

She has previously published writing in Afterimage Journal of Media, Arts and Cultural Criticism (U.S), Allotrope (N.I), Art Papers (U.S), Art Monthly (U.K), Axis (U.K), Cabinet (U.S), Enclave Review (IRL), Frieze (U.K),Variant (U.K), and Visual Artists News Sheet (IRL), as well as Irish online publications such as Paper Visual Art Journal and Billion Online Art Review Journal.