Fran’s learning log is a refreshing and straightforward reflection on the development of her work. As a Drawing one student she is clearly just finding her feet in terms of writing about her work, and searching out things that inspire her and give her the opportunity to ruminate and respond to. I...
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Almost eight months into the four year part time masters degree in Fine Art, James Kowacz, one of OCA's current MA students, is embarking on a fascinating participative project, ‘A Seat in the Memory’. He is looking for people to contribute t
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In a series of meetings with Goethe, the great poet and dramatist in the 1820s, the young Mendelssohn engaged the aging poet, then in his seventies, in discussions of great depth regarding the importance of hearing and creating music as the continuat
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I am delighted to announce that we now have a nominee for the position of Student Representative, Visual Communications, on the OCA Student Association Committee, and it is a recent ‘star’ of WeAreOCA’s ‘Blog of the Week’, Pam Wright. A
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John Robertson is a level two sculpture student at OCA. John showed promise as a boy making 3D objects and a teacher recognized this and gave him the materials to start a carving project. John worked after school to chip away at the block provided
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Photography tutor Robert Bloomfield with his first post for WeAreOCA
I've just had a few days in Tokyo and took the opportunity to check out the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. This impressive building in Ebisu in Western Tokyo covers fo
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Had Jacob Riis been born in the age of the Internet he may well have invented crowd funding. As a photographer committed to bring about social change, as Miles Orvell noted in his book American Photography, the late-19th-century photographer us
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