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Events Archive

July 24, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
July 20-21, 2019
The cigar box guitar (CBG) is the perfect entry level instrument for the aspiring musician. The significance of playing a musical instrument you have made with your own hands is not a small thing. In just two days you will learn to build a fretless, 3 string cigar box guitar.
May 13 - July 19, 2019
Students, faculty, staff and alumni: volunteer to help with orientation and welcome new students to the OCAD U community.
May 31 - July 19, 2019
The exhibition in the Foundry Art Centre, Missouri, marks Campbell’s first international show and comprises a range of sculptural installations, photographic works, and video projections
July 17, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
July 10, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
July 9, 2019
Come share your story of community-building and place-making.
July 9, 2019
Hands-on workshop where participants create their own oil infusion
July 4, 2019
The 6th annual Artscape Youngplace Career Launcher is geared towards graduating OCAD University Photography students. This year, students were offered the opportunity to participate in an extended group exhibition in the Hallway Galleries of Artscape Youngplace. We're excited to announce the finalists for the Artscape Youngplace Photography Career Launcher. Please join us for the opening reception.
July 4, 2019
Jumpstart your creative career! Attend this comprehensive four-part series covering all aspects of finding meaningful employment – from the initial search through to the interview process. Each session provides valuable guidance and strategies to help you land your dream job.   
July 3, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
July 3, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
July 2, 2019
OCAD U's Safety & Security Services department is pleased to offer OCAD U employees or students a one-day Working at Heights training course. 
June 1-30, 2019
Join OCAD U in celebrating Pride month with a full month of programming and events. 
April 30 - June 30, 2019
Icons of the Blues, by Professor Terry Shoffner.
May 16 - June 30, 2019
Homage, by Skip Dean, Photographer and OCAD U instructor.
May 30 - June 29, 2019
Pride Month is around the corner! Celebrate with OCAD U!
June 4-29, 2019
Celebrate Pride 2019! #DisplayYourPride at OCAD U.
June 27-29, 2019
OCAD U Faculty of Design is collaborating with Ryerson's the School of Fashion and the Suzanne Rogers Fashion Institute and Groupe Sensation Mode this summer to host the Student Zone as part of the 2nd edition of URBANI_T, a large-scale free outdoor celebration of creativity and local talent.
June 27-29, 2019
OCAD University Faculty of Design is collaborating with Ryerson's The School of Fashion and The Suzanne Rogers Fashion Institute, and Groupe Sensation Mode this summer to host the Student Zone as part of the second edition of URBANI_T, a large-scale free outdoor celebration of creativity and local talent.
April 4 - June 28, 2019
This site-specific installation uses imagery from Francois Millet's 1857 painting, The Gleaners, to represent the 77 sessional instructors currently employed at the Faculty of Art.
June 26, 2019
Room 615 100 McCaul Street Toronto On M5T 1W1
June 26, 2019
Aba Bayefsky, CM (April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was a Canadian artist and teacher. Bayefsky was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother. He studied at the Central Technical School. During his teens, he attended classes at the Children’s Art Centre of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he was encouraged by such artists as Arthur Lismer, Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, and A. Y. Jackson. He later studied at the Académie Julian. Bayefsky enlisted in the RCAF in October, 1942, and was made a Flight Lieutenant. He was appointed an official war artist in December, 1944, assigned to depict airborne operations over north-west Europe. He made several paintings of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, he was an instructor at the Ontario College of Art.
June 26, 2019
Free talk and interactive experience that will explore the symbolism of flowers
June 25, 2019
Join Alex and Emma at Journaling Club for a Pronoun Workshop in celebration of PRIDE. Materials provided and free to all community members.
June 25, 2019
Design Wo/ManifesT.O. 2020 is an ongoing research project that asks how innovative methods for placemaking emerge at the community level through creative practice and the social impact of their outcomes
June 11-23, 2019
The Peer Wellness Educators are a diverse team of students at the OCADU Health and Wellness Centre who have come together to install a series of portraits that celebrate living queer icons.
June 22-23, 2019
RESCHEDULED: The Distillery District is hosting THE BIG DRAW Create-A-Thon on June 15–16, 12pm–6pm. OCAD U students/alumni are invited to bring their sketchbooks, canvases, easels, or more to work, create, and get inspired in the space. FREE BBQ lunch for all participants! Enter your work by posting on Instagram using #OCADUxDistillery
May 22 - June 22, 2019
Derek Sullivan‘s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This new body of work is comprised of several new additions to the Poster Drawings series as well as a new bookseller sculpture. 
June 21, 2019
Preliminary Exhibiton of Individual MDes Major Research Proposals (MRPs) Bringing together diverse expertise from careers in design, education, finance, publishing, and film
June 20, 2019
Come celebrate 25 years of Inspirations Studio:  Providing transformative ceramics programs for women impacted by poverty trauma and homelessness. Cash bar and snacks.Silent auction of contemporary ceramic sculpture by: SHARY BOYLE, LISA CRESKY, MARC EGAN, HEATHER GOODCHILD, LINDSAY MONTGOMERY AND JULIE MOON
June 19, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
June 19, 2019
A conversation with Sha Hwang about design, government, and public benefit.
June 17, 2019
This workshop will support you in improving your English communication skills, and is open to all year levels, programs, and students.
June 17, 2019
OCAD University’s Faculty of Art is looking for a Junior Managing Editor to support the upcoming Faculty of Art’s publication celebrating the history of the Nomadic Residency. Reporting to the Associate Dean, Outreach & Innovation, the Junior Managing Editor will assist in research, edit, and production activities to ensure timely delivery of a quality publication.
May 16 - June 14, 2019
Moving and still images created by OCADU students defy or define borders.
June 13, 2019
Join us for a Spotlight on Contemporary Indigenous Filmmaking! The evening begins with a talk featuring curator Suzanne Morrissette (OCAD University) and artists Lisa Myers and Fallon Simard, followed by stunning outdoor projections of short films against the walls of the historic Jacob Stong Barn at sundown. FREE + open to the public!
June 13, 2019
Tour of Onsite Gallery's exhibition, T.M. Glass: The Audible Language of Flowers
June 12, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
June 12, 2019
Legal Intersections is a four-part series addressing legal issues of importance to artists, designers, and cultural workers. The series is presented in collaboration with the Artists’ Legal Advice Services, the Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers at OCAD University, and the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
June 10, 2019
Honouring and celebrating LGBTQ2S+ activist knowledge during Pride Month 2019. Drop by ODESI to pick up a poster!
June 10, 2019
This workshop will support you in improving your English communication skills, and is open to all year levels, programs, and students. 
June 9, 2019
A special visit to T.M. Glass’ traditional Arts & Crafts Garden
June 8, 2019
PMBL Collective Summer ExhibitionPainters Make Better Lovers invites artists and makers from the OCADU community to submit works for an upcoming group show in the summer of 2019. We ask that submissions thematically fall in line with PMBL’s values, following Molly Zuckerman Hartung’s “95 Theses on Painting”, and be of a painterly practice (work that tugs at the boundaries of painting but are not necessarily limited to traditional media). Submissions are open to all OCADU students, alumni, and Toronto artists with ties to the school.
May 7 - June 8, 2019
OCADU Illustration students have outdone themselves this year with 7 works of art accepted into the 2019 Student Scholarship Exhibition!
June 5-7, 2019
Help raise funds for students attending Florence in fall 2019
June 5, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 24 - June 4, 2019
OCAD U Instructor Skip Dean is part of Scotiabank 'CONTACT' Photography Festival , a Fine Art photography exhibition and competition1
June 4, 2019
June is Bike Month! Get on your wheels and ride with OCAD U!
May 10-31, 2019
Students and faculty of the International Collaboration Studio (INTAC) present “A Thousand Words”. The exhibition brings together the collaborative projects made by students in 7 countries over the past 8 months on themes related to language and communication. Part of the 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.