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OCA is evolving

Posted: 04/08/21 04:41 | 3 Comments

The slideshow below provides an overview of changes to the areas of learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum at OCA.

OCA’s online degree showcase – Live!

creativity sustaining practice

Posted: 30/07/21 06:13 | 4 Comments

I am delighted to announce that our first ever degree showcase at OCA launches this week at https://showcase.oca.ac.uk/. Students from the Creative Arts, Creative Writing, Painting, Photography and Textiles undergraduate degrees are all represented and the work is absolutely stunning.

Student Association study event: Visual Art and Text

cross discipline social

Posted: 28/06/21 09:47 | 0 Comments

Join Bryan Eccleshall for two workshops (each two hours long) to explore how text has been used in visual art and to develop your own way of doing it.

edge zine 11: Catalyst

collaboration creativity cross discipline sustaining practice

Posted: 11/06/21 01:25 | 0 Comments

We are pleased to announce the new issue of edge-zine is available now.

Perception: Where Science and Art Meet. Sort Of.

creativity cross discipline innovation

Posted: 09/06/21 09:26 | 2 Comments

The important point is our brains are wired in a certain way and we invent and build the world in our heads as much as perceive it as ‘truth’. This is important for anyone attempting to represent three dimensions in two. The world is indeed out there but perhaps capturing it requires more intervention than we might initially think.

Motivated to work in Equality and Diversity

Equality & diversity

Posted: 30/10/20 09:28 | 10 Comments

The motivations for my becoming the OCA student representative for Equality and Diversity are deeply embedded in my personal experiences of racial and social class based injustices. I felt that this personal context was important to illustrate my interest and commitment to the role. But equally I wanted to add a real life dimension to the discussion on equality and diversity.

OCA wellbeing: On self-care

cross discipline wellbeing

Posted: 13/08/20 09:47 | 6 Comments

Increasing online presence may result in online fatigue with visual and somatic symptoms. To Self- care and to be aware of changing habits and maladaptive behaviour patterns may overcome not only chronic ‘online’ disease but also negative impact on concentration, mood and emotions.

OCA wellbeing: Community in lockdown

cross discipline wellbeing

Posted: 23/07/20 09:15 | 3 Comments

Miranda shares what she has found helpful during the pandemic so far. Miranda is new to the Student Services Team at OCA, and has had the challenge of joining the OCA ‘virtually’ during the lockdown period!

OCA wellbeing: Pets

cross discipline wellbeing

Posted: 16/07/20 09:51 | 3 Comments

I have settled reasonably well into life in lockdown and I think it’s largely to do with my furry companion. I’ve kept my normal routine of getting up and walking to work, which currently means taking Enzo out and looping back home to log on.

OCA wellbeing: Photography

cross discipline wellbeing

Posted: 02/07/20 09:51 | 6 Comments

I’d started up an Instagram account a while back, but I’d fallen into posting very sporadically, going months without and not making much of a contribution. So I decided to try out the whole ‘post an image a day’ and use some hashtags to get the message out that although we were in lockdown, we were still here.