Several organizations have come together with the Community Arts Center to form unique partnerships. These Partner Organizations work to enhance and promote OCAC and in turn the Arts Center helps to facilitate their purpose and mission.

The Oxford Area Community Theatre, serving Oxford and surrounding communities since 1980, is dedicated to providing the community with the highest quality amateur theatre possible. This group, from which many of OCAC’s original board members were drawn, also provided "seed" money, encouragement and a strong belief in our mission in those early days. Today, OxACT makes its home in the theater at OCAC and continues its strong support while producing quality community theater and mentoring the Oxford Youth Theater and the Oxford Cooperative Theater, two local children’s theater groups. To find out more about OxACT, visit http://www.oxact.org/.

The third floor of the Community Arts Center houses 24 studios for local artists. These artists have joined together to form the Artists’ Collaborative. The Collaborative is an affiliation of visual, literary and performing artists whose mission is to coordinate and promote the work of its members through open studios, exhibitions, performances, and other appropriate events.  Their mission is to work cooperatively with the Oxford Community Arts Center and other arts organizations to promote community support of the arts.

Several times a year, members of the Artists’ Collaborative join together with other local artists to present special Art Events at OCAC and throughout the community.



Des Fleurs Garden Club joined the OCAC family in 2005. This dynamic organization was founded in 1960 and through the years has made significant contributions to the Oxford community including the design, planting and maintenance of Inloes Gardens on the corner of High Street and Locust Ave. In 2006 Des Fleurs facilitated the landscaping along the entire front of the Arts Center. With the expert assistance of local landscape designer, John Devore, garden club members provided ideas, design, labor and all of the funding for the project.

While continuing to maintain and fund the first phase of the OCAC gardens, Des Fleurs Garden Club, with the generous support of Margarette Beckwith of Beckwith-Chapman Associates Landscape Architecture, began building a children’s garden in the spring of 2007. The Children's Garden at OCAC offers hands on gardening experience for children attending the annual Gardeneering Camp.



The Miami Film Association (MFA) is a non-profit organization created to support new and upcoming independent filmmakers in the Miami Valley region (Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Eastern Indiana). The Miami Film Association supports the cinematic arts locally, nationally and internationally through a number of comprehensive new programs including Project Support (helping filmmakers develop and produce their own new films), Filmmaking workshops (Given by industry professionals, often directed towards new student filmmakers in High-School & College), MFA Cinema Weekly (a new weekly program which screens new un-released short and feature-length independent films for the public), Indie Reel (a new online indie-film review publication), and MFA’s flagship program, the annual Oxford International Film Festival (see below for details). For more information about the Miami Film Association and programs visit: www.miamifilmassociation.com.

The Oxford International Film Festival is held annually in Oxford, Ohio each April. This globally recognized event received over 500 film entries from 41 countries on 6 continents in its inaugural year alone. The 4-day long festival regularly features over 100 new independent films from around the globe, including local, national and world-premieres, along-side filmmaker panels, workshops, nightly receptions, an opening night gala and closing night awards-ceremony. Both new filmmakers and industry-professionals from Hollywood attend the event, which has been hailed by the Cincinnati Enquirer as “Sundance without snow…” For more information about the festival visit: www.oxfordfilms.com.