Professional Certificate in Creative Learning

Requirements

All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)  - Applicants who do not meet the minimum academic entry requirements for admission may be considered on the basis of a recognition of previous  learning  whether based on prior relevant experience or other relevant credited or non credited or learning (RPL). In such cases each applicant will be considered on a case-by-case basis based on a review of the applicant's CV and other supporting documentation.

Please contact ncad@creativefutures.ie for further information.

Qualifying Examination -  In certain cases the academic team may choose to set a qualifying assignment in order to assess an applicant's suitability for admission.

Candidates may be required to pass a qualifying examination set by the relevant department before being accepted to a Masters degree programme. Attendance at selected undergraduate lecture courses at NCAD, together with related written work may be prescribed.

You may apply for the programme if you are currently completing your Undergraduate Degree. NCAD will review the rest of your application If necessary, we can make you a Conditional Offer. When your degree is completed and you send us final transcripts we will upgrade this to a Full Offer.

Applicants who have not been educated through English must show proof of achieving IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6 in the writing section on the Academic Version) or an equivalent score in another accepted test.

Essential Supporting Documentation

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• A statement framing your reasons for applying to the programme, i.e. how attending the above selected course will benefit you and your practice  (500 words)
• A recent CV
• Certified transcripts of previous programmes followed
• Certified copies of degree/ certificates and/or other appropriate third level qualifications bearing the official stamp of the institution.

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Opportunities and Career

Graduates will be equipped with skills and knowledge that will enable them to build and enact learning practices across educational, community and cultural sectors: supporting inclusive, participatory approaches to teaching through creative practice.

Brendan Fox is an artist, curator, writer & Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) facilitator. He holds a BA in Fine Art from NCAD & received the Global Undergraduate Award for his graduate project Biopredation in 2012. In 2020 he received an MFA in Art in the Contemporary World from the National College of Art & Design which focused on the intersection of contemporary arts practice & community.  Fox has curated the work of hundreds of Irish & international artists in a broad spectrum of settings. He was project co-curator at Nag Gallery, Dublin, resident curator at Talbot Gallery, Dublin & is the founder, Director/Curator of Foundation Arts in association with Offaly County Council & the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He has devised numerous gallery & offsite exhibitions & has curated from the national collection at IMMA, Dublin. He has been the invited curator at Limerick School of Art & Design & the National College of Art & Design. 
 

Fox is the instigator of Games for Artists & Non-Artists at the IMMA in 2020 and is the founder of the Museum of Everyone (MOE), a multidisciplinary platform for artists & community-led initiatives focused on inclusion, diversity & active collaborations. MOE received the Dublin City Council Arts Office Incubation Space Award 2021-2022. 2021 also saw him devising a major exhibition entitled Spectacular Vernacular in association with Offaly Arts Office which received the In the Open | Faoin Spéir: an Arts Council funded programme developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis. 
 

In 2022 he was invited inaugural curator/facilitator with Creative Futures Academy, UCD. As artists in residence in Galway Arts Centre Fox & Han Tiernan brought the Irish Names Quilt (1989) to be exhibited alongside the Turner Prize winning Array Collective’s ‘Druthaibs’ Ball” exhibition where they also developed a series of talks, workshops and events that explored queer histories in Galway. In 2023 he was invited by Array Collective to devise a performance at The Ulster Museum, Belfast. The same year saw Fox curate a program of events and performances at multiple  locations in Lazio, Italy entitled Paesaggi Affettivi in association with Compagnia Dei Lepini.

In 2021-2022 he held residences at IMMA, Void, Derry, Galway Arts Centre, The Dock, Leitrim, The Lab, Dublin which saw him elaborate on his ongoing research project Games for Artists & Non-Artists. Fox is currently devising projects in association with Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Giulianello, Italy, Chicago, USA and Reykjavik, Iceland.

Fox has facilitated talks/workshops with the Royal Hibernian Academy, IMMA, Void-Derry, Galway Art Centre, Goethe Institute, National College of Art and Design, VTOS Adult Education, Limerick School of Art and Design, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, UCD and Trinity College Dublin at The Innovation Academy. He is a facilitator of Visual Arts Ireland's Lifelong Learning Program - Working with Curators. Fox is currently on the writing panel reviewing exhibitions for VAN Magazine and is one of the invited judges for the Global Undergraduate Awards 2012 -2023. 2019 has also seen him invited to the Irish national steering panel for - Erasmus+ Project - entitled GO UP - " Building resilience and Intercultural competencies in refugees and asylum seekers through theatre techniques"

Applications are now open.

There is no application fee for this programme.

The programme fee is €600 and the full fee has to be paid upon registration. 

For information on tuition fees please follow this link.

CFA Scholarship 

A CFA scholarship encourages the participation of learners from sections of society that are significantly under-represented in higher education by offering one free place on all of our CFA short courses.

Find out if you are eligible to apply HERE 

Fill in the CFA@NCAD scholarship application form HERE