Black female textile artists
Posted: 11/08/20 09:35 | 14 Comments
This post will focus on three incredible Black female artists who create exciting, contemporary and thought-provoking work using traditional textile techniques.
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Virtual study event: ‘Unravelling Unconscious Bias’
Posted: 24/07/20 12:24 | 0 Comments
Join Dr Pragya Agarwal on 31 July.
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‘Do the Trod’
Posted: 26/06/20 09:48 | 0 Comments
The past couple of weeks have found us in the middle of a culture war around statues and TV but, as Ash Sarkar reminds us, ‘the context of a work – film, telly, whatever – is bigger than that piece of content on its own. Meaning is what happens when a work is in conversation with its audience’.
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Revealing the gaze in Vince Staples’ ‘Señorita’
Posted: 19/06/20 09:55 | 1 Comments
In a time when we’re saturated with images of race and violence, reading an image should also involve thinking about how it positions me, the viewer, in relation to it.
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Addressing the gap – What and why are there gaps at OCA?
Posted: 15/06/20 11:02 | 16 Comments
Last year OCA launched an ambitious new 10-year strategy, available on our website, that talked of closing equality gaps, and making a curriculum that is ‘sensitive to global and cultural contexts’. But how to get there? How do we make a curriculum that is reflective of the work and perspectives of people all around the world? How do we ensure that there are no equality gaps?
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Equality doesn’t mean treating everyone the same
Posted: 10/06/20 09:51 | 13 Comments
Like many, I’ve been reflecting on the recent protests following the killing of George Floyd, and the responses to the #BlackLiveMatter, in particular across Higher Education. These have ranged from the extremely thoughtful and sensitive to the very corporate and hollow. This has forced me to take a long hard look at myself and the organisation that I’m very proud to lead the Open College of the Arts and consider are we doing enough to live up to our values of diversity and inclusion?
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