We are delighted to announce Orla Kelly as Guest Editor for Jan-Feb 2013, to kick off our special year of Early Years focus.
Orla Kelly is a visual artist and creative educationalist. Her own education includes a diploma in psychology, a degree in fine art and a masters in arts management. She has worked with children for over a decade creating work in Dublin, and mainland Europe, with and without a common spoken tongue, using creative understanding to collaboratively make things. Her work with children aims to explore a naturally intelligent and free imagination, where real creation is almost always an intelligent action, done with concentration and joy to understand the world and to affect our relationship with it.
Early Childhood Creativity is a creative initiative that aims to address a significant gap in provision and shared understanding of what is appropriate, useful and needed in early childhood creative education (0-6 years) in Ireland by delivering quality creative experiences to very young children, their parents/guardians and educators, engaging exceptional creative artists.
It aims to:
- To stimulate creative thinking and support this activity with early years children and their parents
- To support artists and educators to develop specific and creative ways of working with early years
- To contribute to a creative society and a creative future
