creativity Blog Posts- Page 3 of 25 - The Open College of the Arts

Explore #WeAreOCA

Browsing Category:

creativity

In conversation with: Julian Broadhurst

artist interview creativity Enterprise sustaining practice

Posted: 06/12/22 09:40 | 1 Comments

I want people to post about their musical lives, about composition, there works, about the nuts and bolts. I encourage people to think of themselves as part of music history. To take documentation seriously.

Writer’s Block (From the Perspective of a Composer)

creativity sustaining practice

Posted: 16/11/22 11:09 | 4 Comments

The creative process and the editorial process are completely different things. When you are creating things, encourage the editorial part of your brain to take a nap, so you can work fearlessly, with no inhibitions. Then, when it is time to edit what you have done, make amendments, and focus on the detail, wake the editorial part of your brain back up.

Student stories – Jane Murdock

creativity Enterprise MA Fine Art sustaining practice

Posted: 06/10/22 10:42 | 4 Comments

The grant, by enabling the partaking of this exhibition, has produced some long-term affects including personally increasing my confidence in exhibiting and engaging with an audience directly but also an understanding knowing that the subject matter is one that is of societal and cultural interest and needs to be continued.

Student exhibition: Beverley Williams

creativity digital assessment innovation sustaining practice

Posted: 30/09/22 10:14 | 14 Comments

OCA Textiles Student Beverley Williams will be culminating her studies with an upcoming exhibition Linking the Circle at The Battle of Britain memorial in Folkstone. Beverley has studied with OCA for 10 years.

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

creativity exhibition sustaining practice

Posted: 27/09/22 11:43 | 2 Comments

Last week I was lucky enough to have tickets for the Open House Festival, to pay a visit to what will be the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.

A PDF-to-print zine as engagement for Creative Arts: Gesa Helms’ A/Folder: an instructive glossary

creativity cross discipline engagement sustaining practice

Posted: 12/08/22 09:16 | 0 Comments

This blog explores a distributed and self-printed form of engagement in my recently completed Creative Arts practice. A/Folder: an instructive glossary is a downloadable PDF-to-print zine. Each zine offers a prompt, a set of instructions, a method to explore. I want to unpack a little what this form allows for in terms of engagement as key modality of Sustain your Practice, and, should you be interested, invite you along.

Tutor News: Farewell and thanks to Peter Lester

creativity Education sustaining practice

Posted: 10/08/22 09:33 | 4 Comments

After almost five years with OCA Graphic design Department, and many more in design education, notably Nottingham Trent University, as head of Masters Studies in Visual Communications, Peter Lester is to retire.

Collaboration: Cherished Child or Frankenstein’s Monster?

collaboration creativity cross discipline

Posted: 08/08/22 12:06 | 4 Comments

We are five students studying Undergraduate Degrees on Drawing, Painting and Fine Art at levels one and two with OCA. We have been meeting for a number of years to support each other with our studies. Last year we agreed to work together on a collaboration project, none of us had tried this before.

To find out more details about the transfer to The Open University see A New Chapter for OCA.