Donor Report | WISDOM
ART IN ACTION
Assisting the Curator of the College Art Collections
Each year pictures from the TCD Art Collections are made available for hire to students and staff who have residential rooms or offi ces on College campuses. The scheme is administered by the Curator of the College Art Collections with the assistance of the multidisciplinary volunteer Student College Gallery Committee. In 2009 four interns were paid to assist in the ongoing cataloguing of the modern art and portrait collections in order to prepare for increased access to this aspect of College heritage as a resource for research, searching and outreach. The Art in Action internship was funded by the TCD Association & Trust.
“Working as one of four Assistants to the Curator allowed unprecedented access to the work in and history of the collection. Transferable skills like database work, fi ling, scanning, researching, writing and cataloguing fi lled the time between aiding in photography sessions, restoration projects (cleaning sculpture!), the redistribution of artworks around College and preventative conservation. The summer placement improved my career prospects and allowed me to make lasting connections with Trinity College. Being a team leader this year in the Art Loan Scheme has shown me how far I’ve come.”
Kirsten Southard, English Literature/ History of Art
TRINITY ARTS FESTIVAL
Celebration of the Arts in Trinity
Each year the Trinity Arts Festival inspires an interest in the Arts and an awareness of what’s on offer inside the College and in the greater Dublin area. It aims to celebrate the Arts in all its forms as they already exist and thrive on campus. In 2008/09, the TCD Association & Trust provided the festival with the means to run jewellery-making, beat-boxing, clothes customising, balloon making and make up for fashion/fi lm workshops which were enormously popular. It contributed towards Campus Canvas which encouraged Trinity students of all academic backgrounds to spontaneously create live art. It also allowed the Festival to run Carnival Catwalk event, in which students designed outfi ts from recyclable materials with the winning design being displayed in Urban Outfi tters, Temple Bar Dublin.
The support received ensured that the festival was immensely successful in 2009 and contributed to it winning the best event of the College year – the fi rst time Trinity Arts Festival has achieved such recognition.
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TWEEDY LECTURE SERIES
The Hilda and Robert Tweedy Lecture Series was set up recently by Dr Jean M. Tweedy Walker, a Trinity alumna, former Trinity lecturer (in Microbiology), and daughter of Hilda and Robert.
The Series consists of biennial
lectures alternatively addressing peace, gender and human rights, and environmental issues. These topics refl ect long time interests of Hilda and Robert Tweedy.
“In setting up this lecture series,
I not only wished to honour my parents’ memory but also to honour all those people who care about peace, gender and human rights, and environmental issues and to encourage more people to work on these issues in the future. I also wished to acknowledge the high calibre of the Sciences in Trinity (in particular the Microbiology Department’s undergraduate curriculum) during my undergraduate years, and the excellent reputation of Trinity in general.”
Dr Jean M. Tweedy Walker
Pictured (l-r): Dr Jean Tweedy and Dr Mary Robinson
The conservation of ‘Cactus Provisoire’ by Alexander Calder donated by a graduate in 1978 will now be made possible by the generous donations of alumni. It will commence during this, the 50th anniversary year of modern art at Trinity, and honours the launch of the newest member of the square, The Long Room Hub.”
Catherine Giltrap, Curator of College Art Collections
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