Art Schools in Connacht
Visual Arts Guide

Connacht Art Schools

With its rich tradition of visual art, and resident Irish artists, the province of Connacht (which includes the counties of Galway, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo) has a number of fine and applied arts courses, to equip students for a variety of arts-based career options. On completion, successful students may choose a career as an individual full-time artist (eg. in painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics), or as a commercial or industrial designer, curator or art-historian, or pursue a career within Ireland's visual arts industry.

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For details of course-qualifications, course syllabus, course facilities and future artistic career options, please contact the following art colleges, or visit their websites.

County Galway

Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
- Castlebar Campus, Westport Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
- Cluain Mhuire Campus, Cluain Mhuire, Monivea Road, Galway.
Phone: 091-770661; Phone: 094-25700; Website: gmit.ie
Offers BA Degree courses in Fine Art, (eg. drawing, figure drawing and figure painting), Design, Film and Television and Fashion/Textiles.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway
Phone: 091-512469; Website: filmschool.ie
Provides postgraduate programs in Film Studies and Screen-writing.

County Sligo

Institute of Technology Sligo, Ballinode, Sligo
Phone: 071-9155222; Website: itsligo.ie
Offers a National Diploma course in Art and Design.

More Art Courses

Ireland
National College of Art & Design (Dublin)
Other Dublin Art Courses
Crawford College of Art & Design (Cork)
Munster Art Schools
Leinster Art Colleges
Ulster Art Colleges

UK
London
Scotland
England & Wales

• For facts about painting and sculpture in Ireland, see: Irish Visual Art

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