Fable for Tomorrow presents the first survey of Wendy Coburn's artwork, exploring representations of gender, sexualities, everyday objects, material culture and human/animal relations.
Inspired by Wendy Coburn’s life and practice, Jess Dobkin welcomes you to a performance activation exploring what art works are for, how we engage with and take care of them, and what goes into creating them.
OCAD U’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers invites you on May 10th to celebrate and scout out new creative talent at GradEx 107!
Inspired by Wendy Coburn's video practice and concern with authorship and its manipulations, join artists jes sachse and Rea Sweets for a time and space of slow content, silent protest, and social media.
Are you presenting at GradEx107? We want to help you prepare!
OCAD U’s Drawing and Painting Thesis/Advanced Studio Catalogue Committee presents Emerge, an online, student-run, art auction that raises critical funds for the annual Drawing and Painting catalogue.
Dr. David Griffin (Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Art, and Chair of OCAD U's Research Ethics Board [REB]) will be speaking at the International Art Research Conference in Music, Visual Arts, Design, Cinema, Contemporary in Dance and Choreography, in Riga, Latvia, May 5-7th at Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija / Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (www.jvlma.lv).
Discover Wendy Coburn’s exhibition through a dyke lens with a democratize-the-docent polyvocal tour open to the 2SLGBTQ+ community at Onsite Gallery followed by an afterparty at Sweaty Betty's with DJ's Sasha Van Bon Bon, Zab and other special guests.
Complete your Studio Safety Training to gain access to Fabrication Studios and Equipment!
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a recruited placement in partnership with Secret Planet for the role of Studio Assistant. This is a great opportunity for artists and designers interested in screen printing, stationary, learning more about how to run a print studio, and working with local artists. Working closely with Secret Planet Print Shop, the Studio Assistant would gain hands on knowledge around the day-today workings of running and managing a print shop with their team.
OCAD University Faculty of Arts and Science Speaker Series presents the Indigenous Visual Culture Program Talk
Dancing with Horses: Contexts and Embodiments
A Talk with Kelsey Dayle John, Ph.D. (Diné) in conversation with Megan Feheley
Date: Friday, April 29
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Letters at the End is an exhibition of CROS Thesis Students
Join us at the end, the end of Thursday, April 21, 6 pm
At the end of thesis, at the end of the year,
At the end of disaster, or at least the end of a voyage,
At the end of memes, at the end of masochism,
At the end of faith, or its institutional variety,
At the end of homophobia, at the end of the exotic,
At the end of gendered and racialized expectations,
At the end of consumption and its longings,
At the end of CO2, at the end of breath
Unfortunately, not quite the end of Covid, so masks will be required.
Do you have a business idea, but wonder how to get it started? Join the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designer and entrepreneur Jaymin Luces-Mendes for a 3-part series exploring how to start a business. These workshops will feature structured working time, live coaching, and a chance for you to ask questions.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a recruited placement in partnership with SwissVBS for the role of Illustrator Intern.
Join our upcoming info session with SwissVBS Illustrator Lisa Collins to learn more about SwissVBS and resources for putting together a strong application.
Khadija Aziz , Brandon Celi , Katie Kotler , Calvin Zhang
March 21 to April 25
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce the return of the Parks Canada Career Launcher for technically savvy students with photography and videography skills.
SiteLines is an exciting partnership between the Faculty of Art and Office of Research and Innovation at OCAD University and the Canada Council for the Arts, promoting and supporting the creative work of BIPOC artists and writers.
IAMD 1st Year Exhibition: Part One of Two
Nominations are now being accepted to fill Faculty Area and Faculty At-Large vacancies on the 2022/2023 OCAD University Senate membership.
Do you have any clothes you’re not wearing anymore? Those items that have been stuck in the back of your wardrobe for ages and never make the cut? Perfect clothing pieces to swap!
Join us at a new exhibit that highlights the profound ecological threats of climate change by focusing on bees and other pollinators.
As the 2022 school year comes to a finish, the FCDC at OCAD U is working with first year students to showcase their best or favourite work as part of The Last Draw, a hybrid exhibition. The work will be exhibited physically and virtually on screen at 115 McCaul Street, and we invite you to celebrate with us at a small reception being held on Thursday, April 21st from 12-2pm.
Nominations are now open for OCAD U's 2021-2022 Teaching Awards. The awards recognize and celebrate teaching by dedicated faculty, instructors and teaching assistants. Students, staff and faculty are all invited to submit their nominations by Monday, April 18, 2022 at 11:59pm.
Toronto-based artist-filmmaker Esery Mondesir describes the impulse that fuels his art practice as “a search for kinship.” At the heart of his work is Mondesir’s connection to the Haitian diaspora, based on his own experience of migration: the artist left Haiti, his country of birth, at the age of 28.
Mondesir mines personal archives, institutional collections, music, and oral histories to chart and connect people and places with links to Haiti. The film footage, score, passport photographs, and text presented here are expressions of his search. They reflect an extended family he has found, across decades, and connecting Toronto, Havana, Montreal, Port-au-Prince, and the Oti region of Ghana.
The Digital Futures (DF) graduate program at OCAD University invites you to "Dual Exposure” our annual graduate thesis exhibition. Events include a physical exhibition of thesis projects (MDes, MFA, and MA) as well as nightly panel discussions which can be attended in-person or online via Zoom.
Please join Wapatah Centre for a very special Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Contact Zones as part of the Arctic / Amazon project and in support of the upcoming publication – Arctic /Amazon Networks of Global Indigeneity. Co-authors Dr. Gerald McMaster and Dr. Nina Vincent will be joined in conversation by contributing author Tanya Lukin Linklater to discuss the Reclamation of Traditional Knowledge and the notion of the Museum as a Contact Zone. The workshop will also touch on the Knowledge that exists in cultural belongings and the extensive Land Based Artwork of Lukin Linklater with her community in the Alutiiq villages of the Kodiak Island archipelago of southwestern Alaska.
Pandemic Design: Reflections and Paths Forwards. Sharing experiences of Pandemic related challenges, interventions, resilience, and success.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce the return of the 401 Richmond Illustration Studio Career Launcher for graduating Illustration students. Graduating ILLU students are invited to apply for this opportunity and four (4) successful applicants will be awarded one year of free studio space in 401 Richmond in from June 2022 to May 2023.
Join our upcoming info session to learn more about Secret Planet Print Shop and resources for putting together a strong application.
Liberal Studies Talk with Naomi Kritzer, Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules and Dr. Sara Diamond
OCAD U is hosting a cross institutional Thesis Pitch event with Emily Carr University, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University and Alberta University of the Arts Elevate/or Thesis Pitch event. We are inviting students to present their thesis “elevator pitch”. To attend as an audience member, RSVP to the calendar invite sent to your student/faculty email.
Coffee Chats is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted virtually in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating an online community.
Jesjit Gill is an artist based in Toronto, ON. He runs Colour Code Printing, a Risograph & Screenprinting studio established in 2011 alongside his wife, Jenny Gitman.
The School of Graduate Studies at OCAD University in Toronto is pleased to be hosting Studio Connections: Artist Networks, a series of artist, designer and curator talks to inspire and support the OCAD U Graduate community. Please join us to welcome Tania Willard, April 5th, 2pm.
Join us for the 3rd Annual OCAD University Gallery Crawl!
Free guided tours of seven exhibitions, featuring hundreds of artworks by over 70 artists including students and professionals.
Call for Submissions - 2021-2022 Partial Gallery OCADU Artist Showcase
Partial Gallery and OCAD U's RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers are excited to announce the return of our partnership which provides an exceptional career opportunity for OCAD U student artists and recent alumni (2020 + 2021). 40 selected artists will be given complimentary 1 year Pro Accounts on Partial and inclusion as featured artists within the OCAD University Artist Showcase on Partial’s online platform in order to showcase their works, and administrate artwork sales and rentals.
Peer Wellness works to de-stigmatize conversations on mental health in our community through Brave Spaces and Anti-Oppressive Programming. We will be discussing how we approach important events during the pandemic.
Peer Wellness will be leading a discussion on the celebration of milestones, the fear of missing out, and navigating young adulthood in a time of virtual learning and isolation led by volunteers Jessica Zhu, Pauline Aksay, and Cocolena Fong on Tuesday March 29th from 3-5pm on Teams.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a recruited placement in partnership with Gallery TPW for the role of Programs Assistant.
OCAD University is pleased to present a thesis exhibition from the Life Studies students at Gallery 1313. Tracing the boundaries of the intangible, the irrevocable, and at times the ethereal, Proximities: OCAD U Life Studies Thesis Show is about life and visual languages utilized to investigate its less tangible realities. Amongst the five artists, overlapping themes of memory, history, communication, categorization, language abstraction and oppression rise to the surface.
Join to learn more about CEAD’s Membership Career Launchers which award membership and studio access and/or equipment rental at one of four organizations, including Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (G44), Trinity Square Video (TSV) or Toronto Tool Library Makerspace (TTL). Learn more about each organization and tips for putting together a strong application!