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OCA students are invited to join tutor Cheryl Huntbach at the Baltic, this Saturday 14 September from 11am.

I’ve been thinking about the senses recently. Kit de Waal claimed  in a Guardian interview about her reading habits that audio books were now...

‘Sounding like yourself isn’t always the effect you want to go for.’

The MA Fine Art course offered by the OCA is a cohort-oriented postgraduate course that results in a group exhibition of work. This year...

Join the OCA London fine arts group in Notting Hill on the 28 September.

I’m guessing that many of you won’t have heard of Eleanor Dark and until I stayed at Varuna I hadn’t either. During my month...

Join us for a day of practical work at Aldeburgh on the East Coast on Saturday 12 October – suitable for all disciplines and...

Congratulations to our Open College of the Arts (OCA), Foundations Drawing student Linda Cassidy, whom is about to embark on the University of the...

We often get asked by creative writing students how they can get their work seen, published, made or accepted. This is particularly in the...

Research is an essential part of the music degree, and appears in various guises throughout all modules. Research points, essays, listening logs etc. all...

I was recently a winner of the Exodus Travel Writing Blog Competition, which had a limit of 500 words, and I have their consent...

In this post Pere looks at textile artists who use collage in their work.

The things which you’re predisposed to notice, and to respond strongly to, are part of what makes you who you are. Everyone’s subjectivity is...

Robin Haigh is a composer from London. In 2017 he became one of the youngest ever recipient of a British Composer Award at the...

If you’re studying creative writing, chances are that the idea of publication has crossed your mind once or twice. Depending on what you write,...

"Her talent lies in combining traditional materials with contemporary techniques and in materialising the ephemeral as she uses new technologies as a research method and...

When writing non-fiction, look for ways to utilise the skills you’ve learned in fiction writing exercises, and ask yourself how you can make your...

OCA students can join tutor Wendy McMurdo in Edinburgh on the 7 September.

10 students met with OCA tutor Andrea Norrington for an afternoon meeting to discuss “The Influence of Curation on the Creative Arts”. With a...

Join OCA Music tutors Carla Rees, Chris Lawry and fellow music students for an informal web chat from the comfort of your own home. The chat will start...