Kalpana Shankar and I were thrilled to play hosts to a gorgeous bookbinding workshop with Eilis Murphy of Folded Leaf Press today. We thought about bringing creative processes and energies into our research.
Guilty
May the turn into 2026 be sweet for you all
Happy Christmas, Ireland.
A photo collage of hand carved stamps and images from a challenge. Themes include: lush, heart, home, age, soft, bent
The first five days of the #carvedecember2025 Lino stamp cutting challenge. Daily prompts lead to small hand carved stamps!
Trying out a modest lino challenge this December. One small stamp a day. Lets me leave little handmade gifts around the house too.
A black and white print of a little girl in butterfly wings
This week a colleague and I learned about intaglio and dry point. A first effort.
Attendees at an event in the James Joyce Library, UCD. Book cover shown, titled Creative Pedagogies in Practice.
Wonderful to host the launch of "Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at University College Dublin", with essays reflecting on how creative pedagogies foster critical thinking in teaching & learning.
@artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @creativefutures.bsky.social
A pen and an ink drying over a painted background, shows a factory behind a brick wall
Enjoyed City Lines walk as a part of #openhousedublin today. We thought about sensing and recording the city, then and now. A quick outdoor sketch of the Liberties, outside Guinness
(This made possible by a sustainability grant from UCD)
Hands creating a print of a fern
Group shows their printed artworks
Teacher holds up print gel with plant images
Busy table with printmaking supplies and colourful prints
I really enjoyed running a local printmaking workshop with @sarahcomyn.bsky.social
this week in honor of Bloomin’ Crumlin who do so much for their community with cleanups, programming, and plant giveaways. A talented bunch of artists too!
Brightly colored hand made flag books with handwriting
Had a great time visiting with old friends and colleagues in St. Louis to consider the challenges of creative practice as research. We made flag books to work through practices of collaboration.
Had a great time with the team working on creative practice in research culture at UCD.
Our workshop used the rotation of paper flexagons to explore our own goals and hopes for, and barriers to creative collaboration.
Off to a great start!
The Dublin Small Press Fair (2025) is now open to applications from publishers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, experimental literature, literary journals, artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, broadsides, and more!
dublinsmallpressfair.com
At today’s “Permacrisis and Polycrisis” conference at UCD, @sarahcomyn.bsky.social and I spoke on our shared experiences of “Crafting Against Crisis.”
Intrepid participants then constellated conference keywords by making flexagon and flag books.
Library Assistant roles in @ucdlibrary.bsky.social Perm & Fixed Term plus panel. Closing date is soon so get the application in if you're interested! 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 14/05/2025
More info: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
#LISjobsIE
Renews MLA membership…
May it bring you inspiration!
Celebrating the first time bookbinders from the English, Drama, and Gender Studies MA courses, who spent patient, joyful hours learning something new during finals.
Just dismayed to hear from colleagues that these crucial NEH grants and summer fellowships were awarded and are now being yanked. NEH funding shaped my career in essential ways. This is just enraging.
DOGE is reportedly rescinding grants that have already been awarded, thwarting the will of Congress and upending worthwhile projects that improve our lives. It’s yet another authoritarian move to control what people in our country see, say, and think.
10/10 would take ;)
Great idea!! Urban appetites or something by Ruth Reichl?
This was a really meaningful end to the week. Doubly delighted to share this with so many fantastic colleagues, including my “Crafty Women” teaching partner, @sarahcomyn.bsky.social
Spring has decided to arrive in Ireland
#jobklaxon #academicjobs University College Dublin is seeking to recruit 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme - including in Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences & Law www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Yes. Go for it
Excellent secret santa pull