In its Art & Study Centre, KCAT runs an Arts Council funded studio for artists with special needs and a VEC Art Course open to anybody.

KCAT also organises exhibitions and other events, an annual art summer school, weekend-, holiday-, and evening courses and workshops for children.

KCAT  stands for Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent and was started by the Camphill Communties of Ireland in 1996. It began as an EU Horizon funded project to facilitate the artistic and personal development of seven individuals with a range of disabilities. From this and contacts with other projects in Europe grew the need and inspiration for the permanent centre which is based in a former sausage factory building in Callan, since 1999.

Rather than integrating the one group into the other, the centre seeks to create a new situation: an environment in which artists and students from different backgrounds can work together as creative equals and in which learning is a possibility for everyone.