Open Arts Journal @openartsjournal

Open Arts Journal

@openartsjournal.bsky.social

Open-access journal for arts scholarship, @openuniversity.bsky.social. https://openartsjournal.org/ Banner image: Detail from a view of the studio at the Barbara Hepworth gallery in St Ives, Cornwall. (Photo: Ed Clews / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Photograph of trees, foliage and flowers in walled garden

Photograph of a walled garden with black gateposts at entrance

Photograph showing memorial plaques on a brick wall

Last month, Jenny from the #Archive team led her first OU campus tour with some of our amazing alumni.

A highlight? Visiting the Legacy Garden, which honours OU donors.

Explore more in our Historical OU Campus Tour: www.open.ac.uk/library/digi...

#MiltonKeynes

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Table and display board with maps.

With @amyjanebarnes.bsky.social and Veronica Davies, our Objects, Collections and Museums Research Group table is all set up for the @openarc.bsky.social festival. Looking forward to showcasing our work today!

13.05.2025 08:58 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

For those in the Glasgow area this coming weekend @tannahillcentre.bsky.social @paisleymuseum.bsky.social

12.05.2025 12:29 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies

Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

02.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 28 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 6

Submissions We warmly welcome responses and proposals for future themed issues at: FASS-open-arts-journal@open.ac.uk Guidelines for contributors Please download the Open Arts Journal Style Guidelines for Contr…

We warmly invite responses and proposals for future themed issues. For more information, please visit our Submission page: openartsjournal.org/submissions/

04.04.2025 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Issues Issue 1: Cosmopolitanism as Critical and Creative Practice(Summer 2013) Issue 2: Pavilions (Winter 2013-14) Issue 3: Disturbing Pasts: Memories, Controversies and Creativity (Summer 2014) Issue 4: …

All of our back issues are online and accessible to all: openartsjournal.org/issues/

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Open Arts Journal Open and diverse arts scholarship

Welcome to our brand new Bluesky account. We're delighted to be here! OAJ is a peer-reviewed platform for arts scholarship, publishing research by practitioners and historians of art, architecture and design, curators and arts policy-makers, and researchers in the arts and heritage sectors.

04.04.2025 11:04 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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The Open University in Scotland
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@jillharrison1

FSA Scot, Social art historian/Fifteenth-century Scotland, Flanders and Burgundy. Research Associate, Open University. Leads the Trinity Network and Adornes Network. https://profiles.open.ac.uk/jill-harrison

POLIS
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paulftremlett
@paulftremlett

Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.

Katie Ault
@katieault

Art historian (PhD, The Open University), artist, musician www.katieault.co.uk

Centre for Open Thanatology
@openthanatology

The Centre for Open Thanatology is the Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study & education of death, dying, loss, & grief across the life course & in diverse contexts. Directors: Prof Erica Borgstrom & Dr Joanne Jordan.

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@benwwk

Lecturer in Art History; Doctor of London's murals & 'the Left', 1975-86; Socialist; Trade unionist; Free Palestine 🇵🇸 https://profiles.open.ac.uk/ben-wiedel-kaufmann

Art and Ecology
@artandecology

Art, Ecology, and the occasional zebra. Managed by Samuel Shaw, art historian, OU

Dr Amy Jane Barnes
@amyjanebarnes

Senior Lecturer & Staff Tutor in Art History, OU. Museums, heritage, visual culture, Chinese things. Thoughts are my own. She/her open.ac.uk/people/ajb2863

Dr Amanda Sciampacone
@asciampacone

Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.

Debbie Parker Kinch
@debbieparkerkinch

Senior Lecturer in English and Staff Tutor @ The Open University. Interested in 19/20C writing by women and the history of feminism. Writing a biography of writer & feminist Bessie Parkes Belloc (1829-1925). Views my own.

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@drgillhistory

Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.