Cork DFAS 10th Anniversary Year
The following trips are being planned for 2024, so watch this space for details …
February: Hunt Museum
March: National Museum, Dublin and either IMMA or the Chester Beatty
April: Kilshannig and Annesgrove House
May: National Gallery Dublin: Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer.
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Previous events this year:
18 November 2023: Double Event, On Tour – Hanging Out with Warhol & Lavery
Guided private tours of two major exhibitions
Lavery On Location
National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin
and
Andy Warhol Three Times Out
Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin
19 October 2023: Double Bill Guided Tours Event, Crawford Gallery & The Sculpture Factory
Innovation and Creativity Through the Looking Glass of Time: Past, Present & Future
Through the artworks exhibited in “Site of Change: Evolution of a Building” Dr Tom Spalding guided us through its varying incarnations: from Cork Customs House (built 1724) to present day Crawford Gallery; via Royal Cork Institution, Cork School of Design and Crawford School of Art.
Guided by Elma O’Donovan, a tour of an oft overlooked jewel in Cork’s crown, The National Sculpture Factory followed. A hub of creativity, it facilitates innovation and strives to empower artists within its 16 studio spaces.
30 September 2023: Combined event at the Glucksman and UCC
Aideen Barry Monocopsis Drawings 2020
Guided tour of selected UCC artworks located in the O’Rahilly Building, the Stone Corridor and the new Student Hub building, led by Senior Glucksman Curator Tadhg Crowley.
Creative workshop, Discover the Art of Collage and Décollage, under the guidance of artist Aoife O’Connell in the Works studio in the basement of the Glucksman Gallery.
Joy Gerrard Protest against Brexit in London 2018
13 September – Free Public Lecture
Doomed Inheritance; Two weeks of destruction in North Cork, August 1922, by Mr Bill Power, local Mitchelstown historian
7pm in Cork Central Library in Grand Parade.
28 July 2023 – special visit to Áras an Uachtaráin
We were delighted to commence the celebrations of our 10th Anniversary with a special visit to Áras an Uachtaráin on Friday 28th of July, including a guided tour of the formal rooms.
We presented a gift of committee member Ann Wilson’s book The Picture Postcard: a new window into Edwardian Ireland (pub. Peter Lang).
