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Upcoming Events

  • Women Artists Through Their Words - 10. Barbara Hepworth
    Women Artists Through Their Words - 10. Barbara Hepworth
    23 Jun 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join writer, editor and curator Anna McNay to learn about a selection of better- and lesser-well known women artists, from across the ages and working in different mediums, by listening to them talk about their art - and their lives more generally - in their own words.
  • OCA Music Lunchtime Concert: Deborah Marshall (voice)
    OCA Music Lunchtime Concert: Deborah Marshall (voice)
    24 Jun 2025, 12:30 – 13:15
    Online Concert
    Join us for the next OCA Lunchtime Music Concert with Deborah Marshall.
  • Speed Portrait Drawing to Music
    Speed Portrait Drawing to Music
    Wed 25 Jun
    25 Jun 2025, 19:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join Kirsty Lockhart, an artist and illustrator from Dundee, for an OCA x Pencils4Tea collaboration hour of speed portrait drawing to music.
  • SoS25 -  Tataki-zomé
    SoS25 -  Tataki-zomé
    Fri 27 Jun
    Online Event
    27 Jun 2025, 13:00 – 16:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Jenny Udale for this workshop in Tataki-zomé, also known as 'flower pounding' or 'plant bashing.' This process uses plants to create a print onto material like fabric or thick paper.
  • OCA Europe - Student Talk
    OCA Europe - Student Talk
    Sat 28 Jun
    28 Jun 2025, 09:00 – 10:30
    Online Talk
    Join the OCA Europe and student Steve Meyfroidt for his talk Crossing the Digital-Physical Divide.
  • SoS25 - Terrarium Making
    SoS25 - Terrarium Making
    Tue 01 Jul
    Online Workshop
    01 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 19:30
    Online Workshop
    Join OCA's Katrina Whitehead in this workshop to make your own mini ecosystem.
  • Keeping up Momentum: Kin: Bloodlines and Beyond
    Keeping up Momentum: Kin: Bloodlines and Beyond
    Multiple Dates
    Wed 02 Jul
    02 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Keeping up Momentum: Kin: Bloodlines and Beyond- With OCA Tutor Diana Ali and Helen Rosemier.
  • SoS25- Climate fiction for Children and Young People
    SoS25- Climate fiction for Children and Young People
    09 Jul 2025, 13:30 – 16:30
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Rab Ferguson for this workshop exploring Climate Fiction for young people.
  • SoS25-  Exploring ideas of a circular economy in interior design
    SoS25-  Exploring ideas of a circular economy in interior design
    10 Jul 2025, 09:30 – 11:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Catherine Byrne in this workshop exploring ideas of a circular economy in interior design.
  • SoS25- Crown Book Workshop
    SoS25- Crown Book Workshop
    Fri 11 Jul
    11 Jul 2025, 10:00 – 13:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Andrea Norrington for this workshop on how to make a Crown Book.
  • So25 - Where I am: exploring a site or place, natural or built environment.
    So25 - Where I am: exploring a site or place, natural or built environment.
    12 Jul 2025, 12:30 – 14:30
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Liz Cashdan in this workshop exploring place.
  • Kahlo Collective
    Kahlo Collective
    Multiple Dates
    Tue 15 Jul
    Online Workshop
    15 Jul 2025, 17:00 – 18:00
    Online Workshop
    The Kahlo Collective is a group for students at all levels who are living with long term health conditions and/or chronic pain. Sessions are supported by Drawing Programme Tutor, Helen Rousseau .
  • Women Artists Through Their Words -  Zanele Muholi
    Women Artists Through Their Words -  Zanele Muholi
    21 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join writer, editor and curator Anna McNay to learn about a selection of better- and lesser-well known women artists, from across the ages and working in different mediums, by listening to them talk about their art - and their lives more generally - in their own words.
  • SoS25 - Paper flower making
    SoS25 - Paper flower making
    Tue 22 Jul
    22 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
    Online Event
    Join artist Jennifer Collier to make use of your old drawings, prints and any scrap paper you may have lying around. In this session Jennifer will show you how to make Paper Roses and a 5 point Origami Flower with participants making alongside each stage with our host.
  • Speed Portrait Drawing to Music
    Speed Portrait Drawing to Music
    Wed 27 Aug
    27 Aug 2025, 19:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join Kirsty Lockhart, an artist and illustrator from Dundee, for an OCA x Pencils4Tea collaboration hour of speed portrait drawing to music.
  • Speed Portrait Drawing to Music
    Speed Portrait Drawing to Music
    Wed 29 Oct
    29 Oct 2025, 19:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join Kirsty Lockhart, an artist and illustrator from Dundee, for an OCA x Pencils4Tea collaboration hour of speed portrait drawing to music.
  • OCA's Big Draw 2023 - Ongoing & Open
    OCA's Big Draw 2023 - Ongoing & Open
    Time is TBD
    Time is TBD
    Online Activity
    Drawing With Senses online short course,
  • OCA Technology Support Workshops
    OCA Technology Support Workshops
    Time is TBD
    Technology Workshops
    Time is TBD
    Technology Workshops

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