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July 27, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 26, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 25, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 23, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 22, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 21, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 21, 2022

OCAD U’s Faculty of Art is pleased to announce a paid opportunity for up to 6 artists/designers to participate in the research workshop A Melted Snowman led by the acclaimed British artist, Ryan Gander. The workshop will focus on urban explorations and the production of interventions within the neighbourhoods surrounding the OCAD U campus and is scheduled to run between Wed. September 21 to Tues. September 27, 2022.

July 20, 2022

Join the Student Union and textile artist Kiran Gill for a hands-on workshop on ink-making.

July 19, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 17, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 15, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

July 10, 2022

Come along with our Campus Life Welcome Squad student leaders for opportunities to connect, network, and socialize with other new and current OCAD U students!

May 13 - July 10, 2022

Lii Zoot Tayr (Other Worlds) is the third in a series of exhibitions curated by Amy Malbeuf and Jessie Ray Short exploring the work of Métis artists. In this iteration, the artists—Malbeuf, Suzanne Morrissette, Tannis Nielsen, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, and Short—ground themselves within and move beyond the earth and solar system to ruminate on outer, inner, and deep space. 

June 29, 2022
June 10-24, 2022

OCAD U GradEx Presents Creative Resilience / Resilient Creativity, Chancellor Jaime Watt’s Gallery, this exhibition showcases works by 20 emerging artists that explore themes related to living through a pandemic.  Curated by OCAD U graduate Marilyn Adlington, an OCAD U MFA graduate who was the recipient of the OCAD U Medal and President’s Award for her thesis research project.

June 23, 2022

Members of the OCAD U community are invited to join us online on Thursday, June 23rd from 10:00–11:30 AM to learn more about the projects funded last year through eCampusOntario’s Virtual Learning Strategy (VLS) to develop the future of virtual learning for art, design and digital media education. 

June 22, 2022

The Student Union is hosting a Pride Party in collaboration with the Student Wellness Centre, and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Sustainability Initiatives at OCADU, and PROUD U Collective. Join us June 22 in Butterfield Park between 3pm-6pm. 
 

June 19, 2022

OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a recruited placement in partnership with Art Metropole for the role of Programs, Publications & Shop Assistant.

June 15, 2022

Do not miss Jordan Bennett’s Artist and Curators’ Talk, Mural Launch and Solo Exhibition Launch, all happening on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.

June 15, 2022

Co-presented by the Centre for inter-Media Arts and Decolonial Expression (CiMADE), OCADU and NSCAD Media Arts Division Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, NSCAD Office of Academic Affairs and Research, CiMADE and Anna Leonowens Gallery.

June 1-13, 2022
Onsite Gallery invites all OCAD U Students & Alumni artists who self-identify as First Nations, Inuit & Métis to participate in pi'tawita'iek: we go up river Mural Launch programming.
 
June 9, 2022

Join OCAD U’s Indigenous Student Centre (ISC) and the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) for a special in-person edition of Coffee Chats with Jordan Bennett on Thursday June 9, 2022 1-2 PM EDT at Onsite Gallery. 

June 9, 2022

Learn about Design roles at Royal Ontario Museum!

June 9, 2022

OCAD University Faculty of Arts and Science Speaker Series 

presents

Cats Rule the Internet : OCAD U LiVE ENCORE PRESENTATION (Online: ocadu.ca/live)

Liberal Studies Talk with Naomi Kritzer, Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules & Dr. Sara Diamond

Thursday, June 9, 2022, 12 noon – 1:00 p.m. ET. (Online)

 

June 8, 2022

Join Simon Au, Executive Creative Director at The Kitchen to learn how to break into and succeed the field of content creation when everyone is a ‘content creator’ now.

June 7, 2022

Learn about designing for, and finding careers in, the luxury sector!

June 6, 2022

The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce the inaugural Contemporary Textile Studio Artist Residency Career Launcher for students or recent grads (2021, 2022). One (1) successful applicant will be awarded a 9 week self-directed residency with Contemporary Textile Studio Cooperative ($550 value) which grants them access to the co-op’s studio, facilities and equipment. Mentorship from one to two studio members will be provided throughout the residency. Additionally, the CEAD will provide the selected artist with $300 to support the cost of materials and supplies during their residency. This is an amazing opportunity to become part of a larger creative community and gain access to the excellent multidisciplinary facilities that Contemporary Textile Studio Co-operative has to offer.

May 9 - June 6, 2022

Support OCAD U's 2021-2022 Teaching Awards Shortlisted Candidates. You can submit a letter of support for any of shortlisted nominees by June 6, 2022.

June 6, 2022

OCAD University Senate Meeting

June 6, 2022

The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce the return of the Akin Career Launcher for Drawing & Painting and Integrated Media students in their graduating term.

June 5, 2022

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. Slate welcomes Drawing & Painting students graduating in 2022, working in all mediums to submit proposals. Slate is seeking medium to large-scale pieces to be displayed on two walls in the lobby. Slate’s rotating art program will occur two times a year. 

May 24 - June 5, 2022

A Tapestry Opera production in partnership with OCAD University, R.U.R. A Torrent of Light was inspired by Karel Čapek’s 1920’s science-fiction play Rossum’s Universal Robots (which introduced the word “robot” to the English language). 

March 26 - June 5, 2022

72 Days of Free Contemporary Art 

May 3 - June 3, 2022

The Faculty of Art at OCAD University presents the “Together,” exhibition empowering the cross-disciplinary process of contemporary publications, celebrating diverse publics and channels for creative experimentation. This event is hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives (ODESI).

June 3, 2022

We're all about the birds and the bees!

May 24 - June 3, 2022

Free virtual student housing information sessions for new and returning students.

January 10 - June 1, 2022

Have you ever wished you could have some time for advice and conversation with an established alumni from your program?

March 25 - May 30, 2022

Join us for these exciting final thesis exhibitions by our graduating students ! 

April 1 - May 29, 2022

Longtime OCAD U Professor, Gord Peteran featured in upcoming exhibition at the historic Campbell House Museum at 160 Queen St. W.

May 25-26, 2022

The SFI Innovation Forum showcases the diverse, creative, and innovative work of our most recent graduates.

May 26, 2022

A panel discussion about pandemic and post-pandemic arts engagement hosted by the Criticism and Curatorial Practices graduate program at OCAD University with Allison Yearwood (Plug In ICA), Godfre Leung (The Bows), Tarah Hogue (Remai Modern) and Parker Kay (Pumice Raft). Moderated by Amish Morrell, Assistant Professor OCAD U .

May 26th, 3:30pm EST

May 25, 2022

Table and the CEAD are excited to be hosting Millie Chen (Class of 2019) for Session 2 of ‘Pull Up A Chair’. “Pull Up A Chair” is a virtual conversation series hosted by Table  featuring OCAD U industrial design alumni. The conversation will explore their journeys through the university program and beyond - diving deep into matters of representation, equity, and inclusion.

May 25, 2022

OCAD University Senate Meeting

May 24, 2022

Fenton Jagdeo is a startup executive, civic leader, board director, speaker and investor.

May 20, 2022

Free screening of Woodwriter: The Wordless Art of George A. Walker, a film by Jeff Winch (OCAD U Alumni, graduating class 2008)

Friday, May 20 at The Royal Cinema on College St. Begins at 7 PM. Tickets or reservations are not necessary. Simply show up if you are interested!

Woodwriter is a 68-minute documentary that explores George's process - both analogue and digital - as well as his ideas and a flirtatious relationship across time with Hollywood superstar Mary Pickford.

May 16, 2022

Onsite Gallery is excited to be working with Mi’kmaq artist, Jordan Bennett on two upcoming projects.

May 15, 2022

OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to announce the inaugural Colour Code Publishing Career Launcher, an opportunity for one OCAD U student or one OCAD U student group to publish a risographic book project with Colour Code Publishing & Printing.