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Student Work: Suzette Hussey thumb

Student Work: Suzette Hussey

Although writing for an educational series is very different from creative writing, my course at OCA has impacted my work. It has given me the strong foundation and the confidence that I needed to achieve this milestone.

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Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work thumb

Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work

Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI for Success” is designed to guide artists through available grants and awards, demystifying the process and showing funding is an option—all while exploring how AI can make applying easier.

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Student Work: Trine Wade ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’ thumb

Student Work: Trine Wade ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’

As part of my final unit in Stage 3, I staged an exhibition of my major project. Over four weekends in January 2025 I exhibited my work in a building adjacent to my house. Entitled ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’, the exhibition was the curation of a project I conducted in August 2024 when I brought my grandad home to a small coastal town in Norway.

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Can Constraints Improve Our Creativity? thumb

Can Constraints Improve Our Creativity?

The romantic idea of the divine nature of artistic inspiration still commonly influences the way artists are perceived today but has very little to do with how most creativity happens. Most of us have jobs and personal commitments that make living a life of artistic freedom impossible.

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