Happy 2026 everyone! If you would like to start the year with a sustainability-related resolution why not fill in the OCASA Sustainability: Project Audit Form.

For the last three years OCA's Joanne Mulvihill-Allen and Graphic Design PT Dr Emma Powell have organised a series of tutor-led sessions and activities as part of OCASA’s Summer of Sustainability. But in 2026 we are planning something a bit different...

OCA Creative Arts student Brindusa Burrows is exhibiting (H)Être - a body of worked conceived in dialogue with a 268-year old beech that was felled a year ago in her mountain village in alpine Switzerland.

Eleanora Alis and John are both students at the Open College of Arts. Despite never having met in person, they are now collaborating on their fourth project together.

We're excited to announce our Summer of Sustainability 2025 event series.

Did you know? — OU Carbon Literacy Training can be accessed (free) by all OCA staff and students!

"I live and work between Estonia and the Cayman Islands. I'm a mother, a wife, and a visual artist."

Do I still believe a story can change the world?

This post provides a summary of the final two recorded sessions that are available from OCASA’s Summer of Sustainability 2024

This post provides a summary of two of the recorded sessions that are available from OCASA’s Summer of Sustainability 2024.

Three more students who answered our Summer of Sustainability 2024 callout were; Julie Bancroft, Lyndsey Ciarcia and Matt Lewis.

If you haven’t accessed the Arts, the Environment and Sustainability VLE Resource yet here’s a brief overview of its intent and content.

Featured in this post, Evie Godfrey, Jane Robb and Sophie Mirfield who submitted work as part of our Summer of Sustainability.

Some more student work as part of our Summer of Sustainability. Thanks to Eleanora Alis, Elizabeth and Emily for sharing.

The ArtLab23 Artists Collective is a made up of OCA Alumni whose group exhibition is opening at Willesden Gallery, London on the 9 July.

We asked students working within the theme of the environment or the climate crisis to share their work with us.

Since I can remember I have been making books. Folding pieces of paper up to make a structure.

At the end of November a study visit was held at FutureScapes 2023 - a free two-day landscaping event held at EXCEL in London. For the...

We both started the Creative Arts degree in 2021 and have been working at a similar pace so reached the collaboration exercise in unit 3...

Over the course of the summer the OCASA has hosted a number of online and in-person sustainability activities. This has been our first...