Join OCA tutors Derek Trillo and Helen Warburton in Derby 15-17 March 2019. Spread over three days you could choose one or two days, but would get more from the weekend and a greater sense of community and cohesion with fellow students the more days you can attend.
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OCA North event: Thinking through art – a workshop
Join OCA tutor and Programme Leader Emma Drye in Halifax on the 30 March.
LGBT artists
February is LGBT History Month – a national initiative focused on recognising lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, their lives and experiences, and promoting equality. Marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the modern Pride movement, this year a number of galleries and museums, from London to Liverpool and Birmingham to Brighton, are running talks, exhibitions, film screenings and workshops to highlight previously hidden or unknown LGBT histories in their collections.
Critical thinking skills workshops for textiles students
In response to the high demand and the positive feedback received I will be rerunning the critical thinking skills workshops for textile students again this spring.
What I learned writing an LGBT film
LGBT History Month is all about promoting equality, diversity and education. If you are writing or making a film with an LGBT theme, there is a responsibility on the artist to be truthful when dealing with topics that – for many – are delicate, if not life changing.
The knitting & stitching show
Join OCA tutor Priscilla Edwards on 2 March in London.
The nature of temporary site specific art
I make artwork which is connected to place. According to the Tate the term ‘site-specific’ refers to a work of art designed specifically for…
Study event: Sometimes I Disappear
Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo on 2 March in Edinburgh.
Poetry with a Cause: Writing a Poetry Manifesto
What does a poem stand for? What is a poem? What is a poem for? What should a poem be? What should it feel like? What should a poem do? How should it do that? How does a poem relate to the world? Why do you want to write it? What is writing like? Is poetry political? Is all poetry political? How can poetry change the world? How will your poetry change poetry?
Regional group: OCA SW event review
Our first OCA SW study day of 2019 was led by Matt White, OCA tutor and former Programme Leader for Moving Image, who led a session on research and critical review. Thirteen OCA students attended across a range of disciplines, including painting, sculpture, textiles, creative writing.
Target Practice
My body of work Target Practice developed from my interest in LGBTQ hidden histories. I became focused on the experience of gay men in Nazi concentration camps when I read about the biography of Josef Kohout, a Nazi concentration camp survivor.
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