This speaker series is a part of a larger HORIZON research project exploring and supporting the needs of emerging artists and designers at OCAD University. Open to all students, guest speakers will explore several topics in a round table discussion and invite students to participate, to better understand and address these needs in sustainable social, and financial ways.
Join us for connection, networking and opportunities for learning and sharing.
The exhibition, Marinating In Our Surrealistic Land discovers the works of art which emphasize on what cultural resonance means to the spirits that embody us.
This policy roundtable will explore the cultural policy implications of GAI-fueled shifts to Canada’s creative industries.
In this interactive session, adé abegunde shares her insights into the dynamic world of making independent publications.
Gibraltar Point, A Living Lab, is a unique interdisciplinary course open to students in all program areas including graduate studies.
Student Information Session on Wednesday, March 27th at 330 Room 650
Design Abroad Nepal 2024
Design Abroad is an exciting course at OCAD University offering students a unique opportunity to work internationally with a local community to co-design solutions that have a meaningful impact.
Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm
Inclusive Design Research Centre presents Accessible Canada -- Accessible World, an inclusive French/English language, international conference that aims to advance accessibility and inclusive design in various domains.
Inclusive Design Research Centre présente Canada accessible -- Monde accessible, une conférence internationale inclusive en français et en anglais qui vise à faire progresser l'accessibilité et le design inclusif dans divers domaines.
Animation Histories: Cultural Bridge between the Philippines and Canada
In this experimental animation studio course, students will work collaboratively with animation students from iAcademy in Manila on a research project and exhibition looking at how the Philippines and Canada have been connected throughout their respective animation histories.
Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm
Preservation and perseverance: Cultural heritage and contemporary practice in Thailand
Using the historical and contemporary context of Chiang Mai, Thailand, this course examines how expressions of cultural heritage are transmitted, revitalized, and expanded in contemporary practice.
Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm
Experiential Photography – International Collaboration
Experiential Photography taught by Ursula Handleigh and partnered with Professor Jay Javier from De La Salle-College of St Benilde in Manila, explores expanded and alternative photographic processes within the Philippine landscape.
Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm
A celebration of the studio work of Class Assistants from across the studios at OCAD.
January 24 to May 18, 2024
Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith
power offers artworks that challenge dominant capitalist and state capitalist worldviews. These Toronto-based artists use their eloquent sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, and video practices to inspire and reflect equitable worlds that reposition the meaning of power to be grounded in respect, cooperation, and emotional intelligence. through multiple contexts including non-Western worldviews, feminist and queer perspectives, Afrofuturism, spirits and myths, a human library and more.
Guest curated by Linda Grussani
As part of the Mawadishiwewin (visits) series
Special Projects Gallery
January 24 to May 18, 2024
Taqralik Partridge: ᐳᓛᖃᑎᒌᑦ (Pulaaqatigiit) is the first of two solo exhibitions in the series Mawadishiwewin (visits) that delve into the connections formed through visiting, creating, and sharing.
Join OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers and the International Students Support Office for a workshop and panel on starting your own business as a newcomer to Canada.
The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a new partnership with Whippersnapper Gallery to create the Whippersnapper Gallery OCAD U Storefront Career Launcher.
The PULSE Editorial Board invite you to attend the 3rd Print Edition Launch Party
The Faculty Curriculum & Development Centre (FCDC) and the Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives (ODESI) at OCAD University (OCAD U) are pleased to invite you to Sustainability (as) Pedagogy, a research talk with OCAD U’s Sustainable Futures Faculty Fellowship (SF3) program.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Ignite Gallery have partnered to co-create a Career Launcher for emerging Curators. The opportunity will select one (1) emerging curator to curate an exhibition at Ignite Gallery for the 2024 program cycle from Ignite’s annual call for artists.
The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to announce the return of the Parks Canada Career Launcher for technically savvy students with photography and videography skills. Students are invited to apply for this opportunity.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a call for artists in partnership with Slate Asset Management. Slate Asset Management is seeking proposals for a rotating public art exhibit that will animate the lobby of 2 St. Clair West in the Yonge St. + St. Clair Avenue West community.
In partnership with Inuit Art Foundation, join us for an artist talk with Glenn Gear at Onsite Gallery.
OCAD University’s 109th Annual Graduate Exhibition, Toronto’s largest free art and design exhibition, takes place May 1 to 5, 2024, featuring the work of more than 800 emerging artists and designers.
This event offers registered participants the opportunity to embark on an enchanting journey through the neighbourhoods of Toronto where Rocky Dobey's public artworks can be found, all while being guided by power exhibition artist, Rocky Dobey.
Building Beyond: An Instructional LEGO® Workshop w/ Ekow Nimako a three-hour workshop that delves into the realms of forward-looking storytelling, creativity and cultural reflection, intertwining Lego artistry with Afrofuturism and speculative reclamation of African legacies and dynasties. Spaces are limited with priority given to self-identifying Black and African OCAD U students and alumni.
In partnership with the Inuit Art Foundation (IAF), Onsite Gallery presents Up Front, a series of commissioned digital murals by Inuit artists.
Vincent Depoivre: Boy Toys
Curated by Lauchlin MacQuarrie
Crossing Fonds will explore trends in digital archival practice, including the Crossing Fonds platform for collaboration between archives; critical digital archives practices including an ethics of care; Indigenous data sovereignty; collaborative tools and methods, community-centered collections created for and with equity-deserving communities; media arts conservation and archives.
Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau used Kay tout moune (pronounced KAI TOOT MOON) to describe a world without walls that embraces movement, difference, and change. We use it here as a speculative effect of looking at today's societies from a postmigrant perspective, one "that presents and highlights the voice of migration.” Postmigration is a conceptual intervention in current discourses on migration and will frame our activities for that week.
Registration required. Click on each event to register in Eventbrite
鼻觀 Nose Contemplation IAMD MA Thesis Exhibition by Changhao Li
Are You Calling Me a Racist? Book launch and conversation
Join OCAD University and Another Story Bookshop for the launch of the new book, Are You Calling Me a Racist? by Dr. Sarita Srivastava, OCAD U’s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
She’ll talk about her new book in a conversation with Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo, moderated by Dr. Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.
DATE/TIME/LOCATION
Thursday, April 25, 1 to 3 p.m.
Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond St. W., Toronto, Ont.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce the return of our opportunity in partnership with Format for one (1) graduating designer and one (1) graduating artist to each receive a prize.
FIGMA educators are flying to Toronto from the U.S to host a workshop w/ UX STUDENT ASSOCIATION