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Mediators & Guided Tours
Process Room
Response Room
Artists’ Panel
Education & Community Publications

MEDIATORS & GUIDED TOURS

The Mediator Team
Gallery access is facilitated by the Mediator Team who are the main point of contact between the Museum and the public. The Mediator Team are based in the gallery spaces. They lead gallery tours and are available to discuss work in the galleries. They also provide input into the Education and Community Department’s programmes and the National Programme.

Guided Tours
Guided tours are led by the Mediator Team. There are free guided tours of the exhibitions every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 2.30pm. These tours are designed for individual visitors and small groups. No booking is required.

• It is also possible to book a guided tour for larger groups. Guided tours are free of charge and are available from Tuesday to Friday at 10.00am, 11.45am, 2.30pm and 4.00pm.
• The maximum size group is 32.
• There is a minimum of three-weeks notice to book a tour, early booking is advised.
• Guided tours have no practical art-making component but it is possible to bring paper, sketchbooks and clipboards into the gallery spaces. Only dry materials are permitted in the galleries and some exhibitions may be restricted.
• Supervision of children is required at all times.

To book a tour please contact the information desk at tel: +353-1-612 9967 or email: frontofhouse@imma.ie

For details of Current Exhibitions at IMMA please follow the link to Current Exhibitions

PROCESS ROOM

The Process Room is located in the gallery space on the first floor. The purpose of the Process Room is to reveal processes in the creation, exhibition and consideration of contemporary art, which are often hidden from the general public. Examples of work-in-progress from programmes, such as the Artists’ Residency Programme, and aspects of the Education and Community Programme, can be seen in the Process Room.

For further information on the Artists’ Residency Programme in the Process Room please follow the link to ARP: Public Access

RESPONSE ROOM

During your visit to IMMA, drop into the Response Room. Tell us about your experience of the artworks on exhibition, draw or write on a Respose Card and pop it into the special post box. Make an artwork with the materials in the room (pencils, markers, paper and fabric) or have a look at what other visitors have pinned on the display boards in response to their experiences at IMMA.

ARTISTS’ PANEL 2009/2010

APPLICATION TO THE IMMA ARTISTS' PANEL 2009|2010 IS NOW CLOSED.

Call for Applications
Become part of the IMMA Artists’ Panel 2009|2010
Every two years, the Irish Museum of Modern Art calls for applications from professional artists, critical writers, curators and/or art historians to become part of the Artists’ Panel.

IMMA is committed to creating opportunities for the public to engage with modern and contemporary art works, concepts and practices.  To do this, IMMA utilises the knowledge, skill and experience of artists on the Panel to contribute to, and implement, its programmes.

Artists on the Panel may be invited to facilitate workshops, projects, talks, lectures, etc., depending on their areas of expertise and interest, and the needs of the IMMA programme. Inclusion on the 2009|2010 Panel may encompass working on once-off, short-term and/or long-term initiatives within the overall IMMA programme.

Artists on the Panel may also be involved in those aspects of the IMMA programme which take place in various locations throughout Ireland, such as the IMMA National Programme. IMMA is particularly interested in new and innovative approaches to engaging the public with modern and contemporary art.

Closing date for application: Friday 14 November 2008
Notification date: Approximately two months from the application date.

All applications must be accompanied by an application form.
Application forms can be sent to you by post, if you request them before 6 November 2008.

For more information please contact:
Mark Maguire, Curator: Education & Community, IMMA
tel: +353 (0)1 6129912  email: mark.maguire@imma.ie

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS

The price of post and packaging (p&p) is listed with a + sign for Ireland, UK/ Europe and the Rest of the World (RoW). All prices are listed in Euro. Please send a cheque, postal order or bank draft for the total amount when ordering.

For further information or to order, please contact the Education and Community Department at tel: +353 1 612 9919 or email: jen.phelan@imma.ie

1. Title: A Space to Grow: New Approaches to working with Children, Primary School Teachers and Contemporary Art in the Context of a Museum
Price €19.00
Plus p&p: Ireland: + €3.00,
UK/ Europe: + €7.50,
RoW: + €11.00
This publication outlines primary school projects from IMMA’s first ten years, and the book discusses good practice and offers teachers practical advice. An important aspect of this book is the ‘Teacher to Teacher’ section on each project, where teachers discuss their experience of contemporary visual art and talk about their own practice in the classroom.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1999, ISBN 1873654502
128 pages, illustrated, soft cover

2. Title: A Space to Grow: Teacher’s Resource Pack
Price €3.80
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UK/ Europe: + €2.95,
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This pack gives descriptions of recommended art materials and associated processes for use in the primary school classroom, including drawing, paint, print, clay, etc.(junior infants to 6th class). The pack is presented in the format of twelve unbound, individually coloured sheets.
12 pages, unbound, in a transparent plastic cover

3. Title: Mapping Lives, Exploring Futures: A record, a catalogue, a manual
Price €20.00 
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UK/ Europe: + €10.50,
RoW: + €10.50
This publication documents the artists, youth workers and young people who worked together to develop a model for young people’s engagement with the visual arts. With a text by Charlie O’Neill, Mapping Lives, Exploring Futures is about the developmental art project – the Mapping Art Project – which involved young people from three youth projects in Dublin’s south inner city - St Michael’s Parish Youth Project, Rialto Youth Project and Bluebell Youth Initiative. Based in the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the respective youth projects, the Mapping Art Project provided opportunities for young people to look at artwork, to meet and work with artists and to create artwork in response to their experiences.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006, ISBN 1-903811-68-6
236 pages, illustrated, hard back, dust cover
There is a free sample pdf to download at Projects & Research under the Mapping Art Project 1998 – 2006.

4. Title: IMMA Artists’ Panel
Price €4.99
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UK/ Europe: + €2.95,
RoW: + €2.95
This book provides a brief overview of the 2005/ 2006 Artists’ Panel at IMMA: what it was, how it came about, who was on it and what purpose it served. The book includes a number of short texts by Clíodhna Shaffrey, Mick Wilson, Christine Mackey and Lisa Moran, Curator: Education & Community, IMMA. The texts are intended to stimulate debate and discussion about the role of the artist in a public museum and gallery context.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006, ISBN 1-903811-67-8
52 pages, b&w illustrated, soft cover

5. Title: Yours and Mine: Thoughts on Collecting and Collections
Price €4.40
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This small book, written by Alison McArdle, offers ways for young people to explore a museum’s collection, like the one at IMMA.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1998. ISBN 1-873654-6-26
22 pages, stapled, soft cover

6. Title: Red Lines between the Fingers: a Review of the IMMA Breaking the Cycle Project 
Free
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RoW: + €4.30
This report, written by Eibhlín Campbell and Anne Gallagher, presents the results of research undertaken as part of the Breaking the Cycle/ IMMA project of the Department of Education & Science and IMMA. The project ran from 1997 to 2001, working with a number of schools designated by the Government as disadvantaged.  The report explores the impact of the project on children, teachers and artists. It proposes a framework for collaboration in arts education partnerships, and it makes recommendations for future initiatives.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2004, ISBN 1-903811-30-9
137 pages, soft cover 

7. Title: even her nudes were lovely: toward connected self-reliance at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Price €10.00
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This isa research report from 2000 by Ted Fleming & Anne Gallagher for IMMA on its programme for older people.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2000, ISBN 1-873654-85-5
76 pages, b&w illustrated, soft cover

8. Title: Celebrating a Decade
Price €10.00 
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Celebrating a Decade documents the first ten years of IMMA’s existence. Among the book’s many texts, there are pieces by Aidan Dunne, art critic from the Irish Times, and by three Senior Curators of IMMA - Brenda McParland, Catherine Marshall and Helen O’Donoghue - who look back over IMMA’s programmes from the previous decade.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2001, ISBN 1-903811-05-8
94 pages, illustrated, hard back

9. Title: "… and start to wear purple"
Price €3.80
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This publicationby Helen O’Donoghue, Senior Curator: Education & Community, IMMA,documents one of IMMA’s past programmes, with the St Michael’s Parish Active Retirement Art Group, Inchicore.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
ISBN 1-873654 -72-3
36 pages, b&w illustrated, soft cover

10. Title: Come to the Edge
Price €2.50
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This is a catalogue prepared by members of St Michael’s Parish Active Retirement Art Group, Inchicore, on the occasion of their curation of an exhibition from IMMA’s Collection.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1999. ISBN 1-873654-77-4
10 pages, accordion-style
 
11. Title: The Sparkling Seven: The Art Group
Price €4.40
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This is a study written and researched by Majella Perry, documenting the Art Group Project, a collaborative initiative between St Michael’s Youth Project and the Irish Museum of Modern Art over a two-year period between 1997 and 1999.
34 pages, b&w illustrations, soft cover

12. Title: Equivalence
Price €4.00
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This is an exhibition guide, with a text by Siún Hanrahan, to accompany the exhibition of work arising from two residencies with artist Terry O’Farrell – one with members of St Michael’s Parish Active Retirement Art Group, Inchicore, and the other with children from the Muslim National School, Clonskeagh, as part of the 2002 Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office Artists-in-Schools scheme.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2002 – 2003, ISBN 1-903811-13-9
12 pages, accordion-style

13. Title: Multimedia Maps: The Exhibition 
Price €2.50
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This publication refers to an exhibition of artwork from a project that explored the possibilities of using new technologies in the classroom. Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership worked with artists and teachers to mediate shared visions of what was possible in combining artistic integrity, classroom practicalities and curriculum concerns. The exhibition was in IMMA’s East Ground galleries from 16 April to 20 July 2003.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, ISBN: 1-903811-18-X
14 pages, accordion-style

EXHIBITION GUIDES
IMMA published the following Gallery Guides to accompany its past exhibitions and programmes.  The Guides are usually 4 – 6 page, single – double fold format.

14. Title: Mapping 1997
Price €2.50
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This is an information sheet on a past arts project with local youth groups.

15. Title: Once is Too Much
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This is an exhibition guide to accompany the exhibition of work by women from St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, Once is Too Much, from November 1997 to February 1998.

16. Title: A Sense of Place
Price €2.50
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This is an exhibition guide to accompany an exhibition of work by St Michael’s Parish Active Retirement Art Group A Sense of Place, May to June 1996.
 
Unfortunately some publications are in short supply. Here is a list. If you require further information on these publications please contact IMMA using the details below.

17. Title: Unspoken Truths
This is acatalogue of an exhibition of work from a long-term collaboration between 32 women from Lourdes Youth and Community Services Project, Sean McDermott Street, the Family Resource Centre, St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, artist Ailbhe Murphy and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1996. ISBN 1873654 340

18. Title: Intersections Testing a World View: A Review of the Education & Community Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Intersections Testing a World View in 1996, this publication provides an overview of the Education & Community Programme of the Irish Museum of Modern Art during its first five years.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1996. ISBN 1873654 243

For further information please contact the Education and Community Department at tel: +353-1-6129919 or email: jen.phelan@imma.ie