CURRENT PROJECT:
‘HOME-WORDS-BOUND’ Community Art Project 2020
An ‘Open Call’ to the women of Ireland to write about their experiences of living with Covid-19 in 2020 in collaboration with the National Collective of Community Based Women’s Networks for exhibition and publication with Paintings of selected text by Barbara O’Meara Artist. https://www.facebook.com/Home-Words-Bound-112052247292624/
ALL-IN ALAINN ART
SIMPLE FREE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS BY BARBARA O’MEARA ARTIST TO MAKE ARTWORK IN PRINT, PAINTING, WEAVING…. SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES AND NO ART EXPERIENCE NECESSARY https://www.facebook.com/All-In-%C3%81lainn-ART-107930257531807/
‘WAYS OF WEAVING’ BARBARA O’MEARA ARTIST -ALL-IN ALAINN VIDEO LINK:
https://www.facebook.com/All-In-%C3%81lainn-ART-107930257531807/videos/588749075325536/…
FESTIVAL OF FEMINISM S 2019
RUA RED ARTS CENTRE – SORT OUR SMEARS CAMPAIGN ART INSTALLATION
Sort Our Smears Campaign
2019 ‘SORT OUR SMEARS’ CAMPAIGN Open to All submission ‘Art as Activism’ project to highlight the tragic consequences on women’s health in Ireland as a result of the Cervical Smear Test Scandal. Facebook page ‘SORT OUR SMEARS CAMPAIGN
PREVIOUS PROJECTS:
2019 ‘STITCHED WITH LOVE’ 2017 to 2019 a collaborative community art project to make ‘ THE COVERING’ The Tuam Baby Blanket, with 796 white handcrafted squares created by hundreds of women from Ireland and abroad to commemorate the 796 missing babies and children thought to be buried at Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Celtic Healing Ceremony performed by Karen Ward, Moon Mna, where the blanket was placed over the burial site by survivors and families on a public memorial day in 2018. This blanket will now travel to KOLO Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration International Summit in Sarajevo in June 2019
FACEBOOK page ‘STITCHED WITH LOVE’
‘NA LEANAI’ – CHILDREN OF 1916
2016 ‘NA LEANAI’ CHILDREN OF 1916 – Creative workshops designed and facilitated to coincide with Solo Exhibition ‘Na Leanai’ for Primary children of Dublin 1 – Five Lamps Arts Festival
‘KOIMETERON 1’ Irish Georgian Society,Keening Ceremony Moon Mna Women’s Celtic Circles.
‘KOIMETERON 1’ KEENING CEREMONY
2014 ‘ALT ENTS’- Children’s Art Festival Tallaght Music & Landscape Art Workshops in 8 Primary School classes designed and facilitated by the artist in 2014, 2015 & 2019
2015 ‘REFLECT, RELEASE, REBIRTH’ NATIONAL GRIEVING DAY WORKSHOP DESIGN & FACILITATION www.nationalgrievingday.ie
NATIONAL GRIEVING DAY
2012 ‘OPEN DOOR’ Rehabilitation Centre Co. Wicklow – Artists Talk & Presentation.
2011 ‘ADVIC’ (Advocates for Victims of Homicide) Reg. Charity Organisation – DESIGN & FACILITATOR 12 WEEK CREATIVE WORKSHOP PROGRAMME FOR ADVIC MEMBERS
‘ADVIC’ MEMBERS EXHIBITION A.G.M. Teacher & Exhibition Curator – Dublin Teachers Club
2010 ‘ADVIC’ Creation, Design & Facilitation of 6 /week Creative Workshops Programme for Members
2009 ‘Making Senses’ Parent &Toddler design and facilitation of 6 week Art Programme- Annaghshee Community Centre Co. Tyrone
2009 ‘Art on the Hill’ Dungannon Arts Festival – Facilitator of Interactive Community Art Day
‘Artist’s Retreat’ Day- Organiser & Facilitator at Knockrose Studios Dublin
2008 ‘Artist in Schools’ &’ Poetry Now’ Programmes. Post Graduate Placement Higher Diploma Community Art Education-Dun Laoghaire Co. Council Arts Office. 4 months
2006 ‘PORTRAITS OF PAIN’-6 months project collaboration with patients suffering from Neuropathic Pain resulting in an exhibition Film Base Dublin sponsored by Pfizer Healthcare
2006 Primary School Art Teacher – St Laurences Co.Wicklow Summer Camp
2005-2006 Public Art Placement Programme N.C.A.D. & Coolmine Addiction Rehabilitation Group
Barbara O’ Meara Artist 