The Cooper Gallery’s What I am Reading Now … is an ongoing online publication. In 2022 Black practitioners and practitioners of colour are invited to share, with a preface, a selection of five readings that are shaping their current thinking, research…
Friday 3 December 2021 – Saturday 19 February 2022: Preview 3 December book on Eventbrite. An exhibition and event project navigates experiments in art education and alternative pedagogical initiatives from the early 20th Century to the present. Declaring that our…
The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation Sit-in #1: Ruth Ewan We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted to Be and It’s Not Too Late to Change Sit-in Curriculum #1: Autumn Term: 3 September – 23 October…
Enjoy delving into the digital copy of Lifedown Lockdrawing! Accessible here this open, generously spirited, and intimate publication marks a snapshot of DJCAD art and design students’ experience of life drawing and creating a drawing community during the recent sensibilities…
Join DJCAD Alumni Rose Hendry and Dr Maria Maclennan on the 17th of June at 7pm, when they will be discussing their collaboration on the short documentary “THE DEAD ARE JEWELS TO ME”. The Filmmakers Rose Hendry is a filmmaker from…
Students from DJCAD will reinterpret the work of Joan Eardely, an artist famous for her representations of everyday Scotland in the 20th Century, to celebrate the centenary of her birth. The free, online symposium will also include contributions from DJCAD…
Save the date alert! Hundreds of Art, Design and Architecture students will showcase their creativity in this year’s Graduate Showcase which will take place between the 11th and 21st of June. The online live launch will be held in the…
Interested in finding out what inspires Dr Kieran Baxter of DJCAD to highlight the melting of the world’s glaciers? Have a listen to one of the latest BBC Earth podcasts, “finding what doesn’t want to be found”, to hear how…
Jade Montserrat takes us through her top five books in the newest instalment of “What I am Reading Now…”. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD at IBAR UCLan, and the development…
The Cooper Gallery are getting ready to launch their new exhibit, The Ignorant Art School: Sit-in Curriculum #1. At the heart of The Ignorant Art School is a Sit-in Curriculum, a packed timetable of actions, workshops and gatherings facilitated by…