Mentoring practices in the arts

Create and the Common Ground will be publishing a research project about arts mentoring practices, as part of the research an number of interviews and exchanges took part at Create

Sean Taylor, artist and lecturer spoke with Megs Morley, artist and curator, about formal and informal mentoring process - exchange and learning in dialogue practices, and current public art practices in Ireland, Megs Morley references The Paraeducation Project and United Nations Plaza

http://www.themetropolitancomplex.com/files/texts/parabook_FINAL.pdf
http://www.unitednationsplaza.org/

Dr John Bisset, Community Development, St Micheals Estate spoke with Mark O Brien Development manager at Axis Ballymun
They spoke about incidental mentoring practices and the future and stress on current arts practices in the current economic climate, John make reference to the recently deceased Howard Zinn

http://www.howardzinn.org/default/index.php

Paul Johnson Director of Dance House and Dr Paul Roe, Musician and Composer
Spoke together about their experiences of being mentors and the process and meaning of mentoring with particular reference to their respective artfroms - but also its potential pitfalls

The research findings and outcomes will be published in March and edited interviews can be found on the create website then