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Upcoming Events

  • SVF25: Senior Leadership Open Forum
    SVF25: Senior Leadership Open Forum
    Mon 14 Jul
    14 Jul 2025, 12:30 – 13:30
    Online Event
    Join members of OCA's Senior Leadership Team in this open forum session.
  • SVF25: Analysing Art
    SVF25: Analysing Art
    Mon 14 Jul
    Online Workshop
    14 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 15:30
    Online Workshop
    In this interactive workshop, Adam Thompson, OCA Senior Academic Manager, will introduce a range of approaches to art analysis, offering a structured framework for examining meaning, context, and interpretation of creative practices.
  • SVF25: Getting Started With Printmaking At Home Without A Press
    SVF25: Getting Started With Printmaking At Home Without A Press
    14 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA student Jenny Bailie for an at home printmaking demonstration and join in if you wish!
  • SVF25: OCA’s Cabinet of Curiosity – A Collaborative Workshop
    SVF25: OCA’s Cabinet of Curiosity – A Collaborative Workshop
    15 Jul 2025, 10:30 – 11:30
    Online Workshop
    Telling Stories Through Objects: Sign up now for this inspiring 60-minute workshop with OCA's Katrina Whitehead.
  • SVF25: Getting Started With the OU Library
    SVF25: Getting Started With the OU Library
    Multiple Dates
    Tue 15 Jul
    15 Jul 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA Librarian Richard Cleverley for this session about getting started with the OU Library
  • 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 .
  • SVF25: Researching Creativity
    SVF25: Researching Creativity
    Tue 15 Jul
    Online Workshop
    15 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
    Online Workshop
    Join OCA Student Helen Rosemier for this session for all students of any discipline to explore how research can fuel your creativity.
  • SVF25: Using Objects To Tell Stories
    SVF25: Using Objects To Tell Stories
    Wed 16 Jul
    16 Jul 2025, 10:30 – 11:30
    Online Workshop
    Join OCA's Louise Cunningham and Rachel Smith for this workshop.
  • SVF25: Who’s Really Helping Me? Navigating Support in Creative Study
    SVF25: Who’s Really Helping Me? Navigating Support in Creative Study
    16 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 14:30
    Online Event
    Studying at a distance doesn’t mean going it alone, but finding support that actually helps can be messy. Join OCA Student Peter Hungerford in this reflective session.
  • SVF25: The Story of Making Transient - E.A. Tofte, student story
    SVF25: The Story of Making Transient - E.A. Tofte, student story
    16 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
    Online Talk
  • SVF25: A space for Imagination: Working with/from/through objects
    SVF25: A space for Imagination: Working with/from/through objects
    17 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
    Online Event
    Fine Art Programme Tutor Hayley Lock invites you to bring one or more curious objects to this workshop to work with, through or from.
  • SVF25: Bonded Textiles
    SVF25: Bonded Textiles
    Thu 17 Jul
    Online Event
    17 Jul 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA alumni Ailish Henderson - narrative artist and recently published author to learn how to develop the skill of bonded textiles.
  • SVF25: Material Thinking - Threads and Dialogue
    SVF25: Material Thinking - Threads and Dialogue
    18 Jul 2025, 10:00 – 11:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Caroline Wright and Kimberley Foster for this event.
  • SVF25: Multilingual Writing
    SVF25: Multilingual Writing
    Fri 18 Jul
    Online Workshop
    18 Jul 2025, 11:30 – 12:30
    Online Workshop
    Join Stage 3 Creative Writing student Ally Thomas for this workshop.
  • SVF25: Giving and receiving feedback on creative works
    SVF25: Giving and receiving feedback on creative works
    18 Jul 2025, 16:00 – 17:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA tutor Rab Ferguson in exploring the best ways of giving and receiving feedback on creative works.
  • SoS25- Crown Book Workshop
    SoS25- Crown Book Workshop
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    Sat 19 Jul
    19 Jul 2025, 10:00 – 13:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Andrea Norrington for this workshop on how to make a Crown Book.
  • 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.

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