What a year! We’re taking a look back at 2024 and the highlights of our programme. With three spectacular exhibitions, a summer packed full of off-site workshops and performances, and our grand reopening, we’ve loved looking through our favourite photos and memories of the year. Discover the 2024 Round-up below.
Category: Community
Situated Ecologies: Summer 2024 Round-Up
This summer, we took our creativity to the streets. Across workshops, drop-in sessions, residencies and more, we spent time with the people of Oxford with one important key question: what makes our city special? The answer? It’s right here in the video.
Common Ground, Commoning Communities by Sam Skinner
Sam Skinner takes us through a brief history of the Enclosure Acts and the radical power of allotments.
Blue Monday: 5 Tips for Creative Wellbeing
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.
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