Lines to Illuminate project

Lines to Illuminate project

Lines to Illuminate, an installation in the garden area in the School of Education House, outside Room SE007, Maynooth University. This was unveiled by Laura Thornton, Lecturer, on Thursday 9th March 2023. The Batchelor of Education Year 3 students collaborated with...
BLAST 2022

BLAST 2022

BLAST secondary school project in Navan. Thanks to Ms Linda McInerney for the invitation to work with second year art students from St. Joseph’s Mercy Secondary School, Navan. Ms. McInerney the art teacher applied to the Navan Education Centre for funding for a BLAST...
Glass fusing in school

Glass fusing in school

BLAST Project – December 2021 I am very grateful to Ms Daly in Ratoath College for a BLAST invitation to work with a number of students across 2rd and 3rd years to introduce fused glass imagery and techniques. The students designed and developed individual fused...
BLAST Residency Programme

BLAST Residency Programme

I am delighted to be on the Register of Approved Artists for the new BLAST Arts in Education Residency. For more information on BLAST see here Vera’s brief biography within an Arts in Education context I am a visual artist living and working from my studio in...
Shaping the place of the arts in schools

Shaping the place of the arts in schools

I will be working this year as a Creative Associate (CA) with the Creative Schools project. I am very excited to be given this opportunity and I am really looking forward to meeting the school and all the pupils. This project is an initiative of the Creative Ireland...
Nurturing the creative voice of the child

Nurturing the creative voice of the child

I make a return to university this week, late September 2020 for the forthcoming academic year. I return to an educational campus not as a student but as occasional lecture of Visual Arts in Education. I will be working in Froebel Department of Primary and Early...