Blue Monday is supposed to be the saddest day of the year – but it doesn’t have to be. Instead, it can be a designated day each year to take some time out and take care of your own mental wellbeing. Immerse yourself in some of our creative activities.
Category: Community
Independent Gift Guide
Whether you’re looking for something pretty, practical, or just plain fun – find the perfect selection of gifts, all sourced from independent artisans, artists, and small businesses.
In celebration of community centres
Celebrate the past, present and future of community spaces with us as a part of our exhibition Boundary Encounters.
Discover hidden gifts across the city with this year’s Indie Oxford Egg Hunt
From 1-18 April 2022, we are very happy to be taking part in the Oxford Egg Hunt along with other independent traders in the city! From free gifts, discounts, drinks and more, download the map to discover all the amazing offers hidden around Oxford. Here’s a hint: pop into the Modern Art Oxford Café anytime… Continue reading Discover hidden gifts across the city with this year’s Indie Oxford Egg Hunt
Earth Day 2021: Four creative ways to get involved
This year’s Earth Day theme is ‘Restore Our Earth,’ encouraging us all to learn, support and share the natural processes, green technologies, and innovative thinking that can help restore our ecosystem. As we continue to explore the links between visual arts and climate change action and awareness, we’ve put together some quick tips towards a more… Continue reading Earth Day 2021: Four creative ways to get involved
My Friend the Sea: A creative breath exercise for children
“How do we promote the importance of breath awareness and self care for young people?” Breathworks was Modern Art Oxford’s digital participatory project by Lucy Sabin, which invited people to creatively respond to their breath online. Put to us by an audience member during one of our Breathworks live events, the timely question written above has been… Continue reading My Friend the Sea: A creative breath exercise for children
MAO Assembly: Follow our creative wellbeing season
Little creative strategies can make a big difference in the darker months. This new season of MAO Assembly comes armed with creative tips and honest conversations about our own, and each other’s wellbeing during this time. Beginning on Blue Monday (18 January) and running through to March, follow #MAOAssembly on Instagram and here on the blog to… Continue reading MAO Assembly: Follow our creative wellbeing season
Creative Connections: let’s stay connected through creativity
Get creative at home and connect with us online! Over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing tips on how to get creative from home; from “how tos” from our staff and volunteers, to sharing what other creative institutions, groups and people have been up to from in and around Oxford. If you’re getting creative in… Continue reading Creative Connections: let’s stay connected through creativity
Participant call out: Activating our Archives
Modern Art Oxford seeks participants for a project about how we represent ourselves and our communities online. Activating our Archives offers a set of free workshops with Oxford-based artist and curator Sunil Shah and will use photographs, documents, found materials and objects to revisit history through artistic expression. The project will include sharing images via social media… Continue reading Participant call out: Activating our Archives
Data Studio: Environmental Change
As part of the Future Knowledge exhibition, designer/artist Lucy Kimbell will host a practical workshop called a Data Studio. Building on other activities including cross-disciplinary data sprints, hackathons, co-design workshops and jams, this ‘studio’ will apply creative techniques to models and data and translate them for other contexts and publics. Working in collaboration with the Environmental Change… Continue reading Data Studio: Environmental Change