School Tours and Workshops

Tours and workshops will be available this season at VISUAL for all ages from primary school to third level. 

Groups will visit all exhibitions, featuring sculptures, drawings, and found material. This season our exhibitions are about architecture, light, sculpture and drawing. The workshops and tours explore the broad theme of looking and framing images of the world, and foreground reflection, light and drawing as essential learning tools: a way of knowing our world and our place in it.

Dates and Times: 

Tuesdays-10:00 – 11:30 or 12:00 – 13:30

Wednesdays-10:00 – 11:30

Primary School – 90 minutes, €50 per group (up to 30 students)

Tours and workshops are suitable for junior infants to sixth class.

Following a tour of the exhibitions, children will work in groups at a largescale, collaboratively making drawings together. These drawings will be based on the exhibitions that take salvaged architectural materials and consider the beauty and particularly the handmade elements of our built environment. 

Secondary School Tours - 90 minutes, €50 per group (up to 30 students)

Tours and workshops are suitable for 1st - 6th year. Groups visit all exhibitions and respond through philosophical enquiry and conversation. 

Leaving Cert workshops are available, giving a broad intro to the building, the gallery, and addressing the Leaving Cert Gallery Appreciation question with reference to the new curriculum and art in the wider world.
 

Third Level Tours - 90 minutes, €50 per group (up to 30 students but larger groups can be accommodated).

Groups of third level students from all subject areas are welcome to visit the galleries for tours or workshops. Varied workshops including drawing and philosophical enquiry sessions in response to the exhibitions can be tailored to a group's needs. These workshops are facilitated by experienced artists.

Book online or contact box office 
 

boxoffice@visualcarlow.ie, or call (059) 917 2400