Go kids:Today is National Drawing Day and it's an easy and entirely enjoyable one for children to celebrate. One of the best places to do so is in the beautiful National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny.
Artist-in-residence Mick Minogue is leading a series of drawing activities for children and families, and the idea is to create your own large-scale site-specific wall drawings in the style of Bruce Metcalf.
Metcalf is an American jeweller who currently has an exhibition in the gallery – a look at his amazing work will open anybody’s eyes to the possibilities of shape and colour, and he says that he “got involved in making through drawing”. The workshop runs from 2pm-4pm. See ccoi.ie.
Most of the national museums, which have great outreach programmes for children, have come on board to mark the day.
The brilliant Don Conroy will be in the Dead Zoo (or the Museum of Natural History) in Dublin from 11.30am-12.30pm today – and it’s worth going along there anyway, now that it has reopened to the public. Conroy will be sketching in the Discovery Zone and showing children how to draw animals.
At the Museum of Decorative Arts History at Collins Barracks there’s a free drawing pack for you to pick up and a drawing workshop for families. See museum.ie for more information.
