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It’s easy to look at a painting, for example, Van Gogh’s yellow bed and chair,, and respond with words. You might write a short...

Wood may be one of the oldest and most commonplace materials, long used in African, Pre-Columbian, and Oceanic artwork to create groundbreaking forms, but...

Continuing from May’s Ask the Librarian blog that discussed how to find the right content online, lets next discuss what you should do once...

Join the next meeting of OCA North at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester on the 15 June with OCA tutor Rachel Forster.

It might seem obvious whether a book is a novel or a collection of short stories, yet I keep coming across books that seem...

Come and join us for a talk about “The Influence of Curation on the Creative Arts” with OCA tutor Andrea Norrington on Saturday 27 July.

Parentheticals in a script are mini descriptions put into dialogue (in brackets), usually to describe emotion, or what the character is doing while talking,...

As a new textiles tutor at OCA I have been invited to introduce myself on the #weareoca blog. I am a sculptural installation artist...

The session focused around making a mini-concertina book and each student successfully made their book.  In the session, students were shown how to cover...

Join OCA Midlands Photography students for a day with artist Stephen Burke on Saturday 22 June at Blast Festival of Photography in the West...

Conversations amongst friends evolved into artworks, artworks resonate conversation, new knowledge and understanding, things I find to be at the core of art practice.

Having Emma and the students talk around my project, helped me consider it from other viewpoints and look at other options. This has greatly...

Making individual page layouts is an essential part of the book planning process. Play around with the sequencing of images. This stage can take...

These events are part of a program of Art & Environment visits taking the context of climate change as a backdrop for explorations of...

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

While modernism and contemporary music are often thought of as very mathematical, numbers and ratios are in fact central to all western music. In...

In our discussion about trial and error and finding the right working conditions to be able to experiment as part of the creative process,...

If you are new to bookmaking, then experimenting with making artist style books is a fantastic learning experience.  They are a great way to...

At ‘Don McCullin’ you’re not supposed to think so much as feel. But the other function of an art gallery, besides educating us, is...

Do you like books? Do you like tea? Then join the OCA’s new online Book Group