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Work the way you want – why is a lifestyle business right for you? thumb

Work the way you want – why is a lifestyle business right for you?

Whether it’s photography, painting, or even interior design, if you can imagine anything you’ve made appearing on Pinterest, it has the potential to earn you some income. And that means you have the potential to become a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Posting images post-digital

We all use – and therefore copy – artworks to illustrate our own research, but as we have seen taking and using these images is complicated. In this post I am using the primary source of artworks – galleries – as a case study to examine the post-digital shift in how copyright is thought of and applied.

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October was Black History Month… thumb

October was Black History Month…

…and as part of this we asked OCA programme leaders to share some important practitioners to point students towards and remember artists and events in the history of the African diaspora. This is list is just the beginning of a longer one we hope, please add to it in the comments below.

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Less of the ‘same’, more of the BAME thumb

Less of the ‘same’, more of the BAME

The UK publishing industry has not moved fast enough to reflect our current society. And when you’re talking about children’s fiction, it’s particularly white.

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OCA North event – Halifax

The next OCA North will be held on Saturday 17 November 2018 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. OCA tutor and Programme Leader Rebecca Fairley will be facilitating the day.

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What has Hogarth ever done for the digital artist? thumb

What has Hogarth ever done for the digital artist?

The question of copyright is one that has recently perplexed the student forum: a tangle of legal, moral and financial issues. Creative talent occupies quite a rare position in society, one deemed worthy of automatic protection against duplication and exploitation. In a series of blog posts I will attempt to clarify three related issues: the capture of images that may infringe copyright, the use of other people’s images as illustrations and the appropriation and altering of artworks to produce ‘new’ work.

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Scroll free September: Interview with Joanne Mulvihill-Allen, Academic Development Officer. thumb

Scroll free September: Interview with Joanne Mulvihill-Allen, Academic Development Officer.

I decided to be a night owl, because a lot of the time I’m on my phone when the football’s on and it’s just something else to do while my partner is watching that. I thought if I put that away then I could do something else more productive. I thought I’d be good at it!

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Hull International Photography Festival

Interested in attending Hull International Photography Festival this weekend 13 October? Join OCA tutor Les Monaghan.

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