Creative Spark
Creative Spark provides dedicated training and workspace facilities in Dundalk. We welcome and support new and established businesses operating within the creative industries, innovation, technology, and sustainable energy sectors.
Providing dedicated training and ‘learning lab’ facilities and affordable workspaces, Creative Spark offers an environment where innovation and creativity can flourish. Networking, peer-to-peer exchange and connectivity are a daily reality for the business community working, learning and meeting in the centre.
Links with craft sector
Creative Spark exists to support entrepreneurs, designers, makers, artists, and our wider local communities, via space, enterprise supports, access to technology, teaching and expertise. We are enablers and catalysts, working with people to realise their ideas and ambitions.
Our creative hubs includes working, studio space, training and meeting rooms, a fine art print studio, ceramics studio, darkroom, textiles lab and fablab.
Materials
Ceramic handicrafts, Glass craftmanship, Fibre and textile handicrafts, Paper crafts (e.g. origami), Needlework (e.g. crochet)
Engagement
Funding, Promoting / Showcasing, Training / Educating, Collaborating, Mentoring, Advocating, Collecting
Activities
Artist-in-Residence programmes
Projects
Since its founding in 2012, Creative Spark has played a transformative role in reshaping the cultural and creative landscape of Dundalk , County Louth and the wider region. At a time when the region lacked a dedicated hub for innovation and creative entrepreneurship, Creative Spark proved a vital resource for creative entrepreneurs, small businesses, and the wider community. Over the years, the organisation has become a cornerstone of local development, blending economic progress with cultural enrichment.
Networks
Louth Craftmark Designers Network; Design and Crafts Council of Ireland; European Creative Hubs Network; European Creative Business Network / Creative FED.