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New Short Course – Discover OCA Creative Education
Posted: 01/05/25 12:00 |
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If you are interested in better understanding the relationships between creativity and education and identifying the opportunities for experiential learning that might already be around you, join us in June for the Creative Education short course.
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What have I learnt from 18 years at the OCA, tutoring hundreds of students?
Posted: 04/04/25 10:04 |
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Like many of OCA’s students, I studied late in life. I didn’t do a degree after school, working for 16 years in computing. However, I increasingly felt drawn to the arts. I got absorbed in thought through creative projects, partly as an antidote to work and everyday life.
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Experience Creative Arts
Posted: 06/03/25 02:56 |
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It wasn’t until a few months into the course when I started integrating different elements into my creative work, that I realised how well-suited the programme was for me. The process of combining disciplines opened up new possibilities and perspectives, making my creative practice far more dynamic and meaningful.
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Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work
Posted: 20/02/25 05:06 |
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Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI for Success” is designed to guide artists through available grants and awards, demystifying the process and showing funding is an option—all while exploring how AI can make applying easier.
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OCA Creative Arts: Review of Turner Prize 2024
Posted: 19/12/24 09:51 |
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The aim of the Turner Prize is to provoke debate around contemporary British art. Each year four artists based in Britain are shortlisted by a panel. The selection is based on projects or exhibitions from the past year.
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Student Stories: Brindusa Burrows
Posted: 25/09/24 09:34 |
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BA (Hons) Creative Arts Stage Two student, Brindusa Burrows, recently delivered a TEDx talk in Geneva, Switzerland, titled What Have I Learnt from Making Art?
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