The President
Mary Hawkes-Greene,
M.Ed, M.Sc International Business (TCD)
President
Mary's career in education has ranged from teaching in Italy, France
and Israel, to designing programmes for inner city Dublin communities,
to working with government agencies on education policy for itinerant
Irish traveller children. Central to all of these has been her commitment
to the arts in education and firsthand experience of the educational
value of living in diverse cultures. These beliefs were actualised in
setting up the Burren College of Art in 1994, providing an alternative
model of art education for an international audience in an inspirational
setting. A subsequent exploration of creativity and business extended
Mary's commitment to the concept of universal creativity and to broadening
the remit of the Burren College of Art.
