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Next year will be the year of bringing the arts to schools — that is the intention of Westmeath’s county arts officer Miriam Mulrennan who gave an update on progress in the county’s arts office for this year.

This week sees the Atrium Exhibition space in the County Buildings, Mullingar feature an exciting new exhibition of paintings, prints, and etchings by Westmeath artist Patricia Kavanagh.

Athlone’s new contemporary art gallery has really impressed the arts minister, who said he is blown away by the facility and its contribution to Athlone’s cultural landscape.

After much discussion at Monday’s monthly meeting of Athlone Town Council it has benn decided to name Athlone’s new art gallery the Luan Gallery.

The call has been put out for volunteers to become part of Athlone’s rich art and heritage scene as the town’s newest tourist attractions near completion.

Tourism operators from Athlone and surrounding areas attended a networking event last week, hosted by athlone.ie in association with The Radisson Blu, Athlone.

Abbey Road Artists Studios launch the first of what it hopes will be many collaborations with AIT, starting with IN ORBIT, an exhibition of works by first and second year AIT Design and Visual Communications students.

The newly developed Abbey Road Artists Studios in Athlone was shortlisted for the 2011 Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards, held in association with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

Platform Gallery, Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard will host a new exhibition by visual art collective Exquisite Colab runing from now until December 18.

Local woman Lesley Wingfield has been announced as the first artist in residence at the new Abbey Road Artists’ Studios which will open their doors on Friday September 16. She will be joined by two more artists in the coming weeks.