Arts & Environment events and e-meets

Posted: 27/03/19 09:03 | 2 Comments

Update

Arts & Environment themed study events and online meets are continuing to develop with tutors Dan Robinson and Melissa Thompson. In this blog post, Dan shares info and a call out for interest for upcoming visits.

In the next post, he reports on their recent participation in Radmin, a festival in Bristol about art and exchange.

Call out for interested students – events / online Art & Environment programme:

We’re looking for OCA students from any discipline to meet up at a some interesting off-the-beaten-track venues, loosely connected by themes of site, environment, nature, outdoors, microbiome and anthropocene.

The purpose of the visits is to share ideas, creative exercises and methods of creative process across disciplines and to develop peer support networks face-to-face and online. Together we aim to cultivate ideas to take home and nurture.

Between site-based visits, we propose a series of online meetings to open these themes to students who wish to participate remotely.

Visit lesser known projects and non-art venues (not the big galleries)
Meet other creative people and share ideas across disciplines
Think about ecology in relation to creative arts and design
Recording experiences and processes (image, sound, text…)
Share creative tools
Challenge your creative thinking; generate ideas and new ways of working
Co-learn with plants, micro-cultures, art & design and science
Nurture a peer support culture

This is a pilot program and we are inviting interested students to come forward and help us shape this.

Get involved:

Register your interest in attending upcoming events on site and online here.
See the study event diary for confirmed events.
Interested to volunteer or contribute ideas to help shape future Arts & Environment program? Contribute to the forum discussion.

Read what we got up to previously

OCA Phytology visit blog
OCA South London Botanical Institute visit blog

Glasshouse at Darwins House. Image credit: Dan Robinson

Glasshouse at Darwins House. Image by Stefan Schaffeld.

Upcoming events

Join Dan and Melissa on the 27 and 28 April 2019 in South London. Attend one or both days, we will be drawing outdoors, using microscopes and sharing work in progress amongst other things. Events are open to all students and we encourage a cross disciplinary approach.
Sat 27 April: Will take place at Darwins House.
Sun 28 April: Will take place at the South London Botanical Institute.
To register an interest in attending complete the booking form here.
Please note there will be a £10 booking fee for this event.

To be confirmed

E – meet – 1 hour online session
Last week of May 2019 tbc
Register interest via Doodle poll
June 15 & 16 2019
Art & Environment Weekend 2: (2 x tutors)
Kings Cross area. Venues tbc:
https://www.artscatalyst.org
http://calthorpeproject.org.uk
https://wellcomecollection.org
Skip Garden https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/reserves/camley-street-natural-park

Then:

Autumn — Winter 2019
Alternate months: Visit & E-meet. Including return visits to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Phytology, South London
Spring — Summer 2020
Alternate months – Visits & E-meets, including return visits to Kings Cross: Welcome collection / arts catalyst / Calthorpe and South London Botanical Institute
To help shape the rest of the programme please go online on the student forums and get involved in the discussion.

Posted by author: Dan Robinson

2 thoughts on “Arts & Environment events and e-meets”

Patricia Howepatr says:

14th January 2020 at 2:27 pm

Am trying to register an interst in this group, but link goes to page not found.

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Joanne says:

15th January 2020 at 11:07 am

Hello Patricia,

As the post is from early last year, unfortunately the links will be out of date.

The study event diary can be found here https://www.oca.ac.uk/weareoca/oca-study-visits/ where you can register your interest in attending events.

If you email studyevents@oca.ac.uk we can add you to the Arts & Environment mailing list and to the online resource should you wish.

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