On Friday, September 29, 2023, classes are cancelled and the community is encouraged to refrain from booking meetings, where possible. The university is open and active with programming related to the commemoration.
INVC 10 years: Swimming with Nigig
Location: OCAD University Auditorium, MCA 190, 100 McCaul Street
Date: Thursday, September 28th
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
In this workshop, artist and DIY organizer Petrina Ng will demystify the process of applying for grants.
Onsite Gallery presents 2023 Nuit Blanche at OCAD University on Saturday, September 23 to Sunday, September 24, 7 P.M. to 7 A.M.
This year’s traditional trip to Awenda Provincial Park is taking place on September 23rd.
Each fall, students from OCADU make this trip to the park to draw, take photographs, paint and relax in the beautiful atmosphere of the park.
Register by Friday, September 15th, 12 PM
We will celebrating what you have accomplished and learned through the peer to peer and community sessions that have been running throughout the year.
International and collaborations office presents "Global Designs and ARTchives, Volume I"
International Experiences 2023 Student Exhibition
Reception: Tues., Sept. 12 from 3-5 p.m. in Ada Slaight Gallery. Speeches, Live Performances, and Refreshments will be provided.
Exhibitions Dates: Sept 5 - Sept 18, 2023
You’re invited to view this online exhibition of student artwork! Select works that are the culmination of the six-week English for Art & Design pathway program at OCAD U.
“AS IS” Exhibition
Disability Community & Culture Group
“AS IS” challenges the notions of a product-based-model oriented gallery space by asking for the radical acceptance of artists’ unique and diverse processes as makers. Our goal is to challenge audience expectations of what it means to be Disabled, to be an ‘artist,’ and to bring marginalized identities into a gallery space.
COVID-19 has been a shock and a challenge to all. But to disabled folks, the pandemic and its aftermath have activated waves of burnout, executive dysfunction, fatigue, chronic pain, and much more. Partnering with OCAD’s Disability Community & Culture Group (DCCG), the ODESI Gallery holds a space which invites artists to come as they are. This intimate gallery offers a place of respite, encourages audiences to let go of expectations, welcomes non-conforming bodies, and recognizes others’ lived experiences.
We want to honour ‘Disabled’ methods of working by being inclusive and by understanding how time constraints, the pandemic, and various other factors may have an impact on the access needs of Disabled members. Therefore, rather than continuing the harm of asking Disabled bodies and minds to be restricted to the confines of traditional gallery standards, we are building a space that represents a continuum of multiple Disabled bodies and minds.
Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal-winning authors Jillian Tamaki (Boundless) and Mariko Tamaki (Cold).
Thursday, September 14, 2023,
7 to 8 PM (Door Open at 6:30)
A book signing will follow
No RSVP, first come, first serve seating.
Masks are requested.
For many creatives, intellectual property (IP) is often described as “a really uncomfortable thing”. It can be stressful, overwhelming, and every situation is unique. Join us for an interactive workshop that explores how to leverage IP assets (copyrights, trademarks, and patents) to protect and foster a creative practice, navigate collaborations and contracts with more confidence and have difficult conversations about needs and wants for your practice
Nominations are now being accepted for Faculty At-Large Senate Positions
In this Busy Bee Working Session, you will be able to work alongside peers to practice and prepare how to present yourself and your work. We encourage that you bring any work, merch, marketing materials, display items, etc. if you are able to, so that you can practice tabling and set up.
Nominations are now being accepted for Sessional Faculty postions on Senate.
Urban Futurities – Guest Curator Ilene Sova
August 23 – September 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 24, 5 – 8 pm
Curator & Artist Talks: Sunday, September 10, 3 pm
Join the exhibition curators on an in-depth curatorial tour of On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging. Curators conduct the tour in English.
Join Analays Álvarez Hernández and Colette Laliberté on an in-depth curatorial tour of On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging.
Rejoignez Analays Álvarez Hernández et Colette Laliberté pour une visite guidée de l’exposition Sur l’américanité et autres expériences d’appartenance.
Únase a Analays Álvarez Hernández y Colette Laliberté en esta visita comentada a la exposición Sobre la americanidad y otras experiencias de pertenencia.
Are you a new, first-year student in Faculty of Art?
Are you a new, first-year student in Faculty of Design?
Create a self-portrait and introduce yourself to the OCAD U community.
"QUEERIOUS: the Politics of Gender Identity"
Curated by Julius Poncelet Manapul (they/them)
Curated by Julius Poncelet Manapul (they/them)
June-August 2023 Online Exhibition
Celebrating Pride Month June 2023 Online Exhibition
Works by students in "IMAGINING QUEER ASIAN FUTURITIES" 2023 Summer Class, Art, and Social Change Program, OCAD U.
These bodies of work were done by students at the “Performance by Artists” 2023 Class at OCAD U in the Integrated Media Program. Each creator tackles a sense of capturing acts of resistance and belonging within spaces and ideologies in cultural and political confines. They have embodied not only the tangible self but the politics that comes with the vessel to act, move, stillness, and sound. These diverse narratives evoke the new generational struggles of what it is to exists within gender, race, existence, and kinship, while some tackle cultural flights of displacements, and others reflect on diasporic narratives that transcended duality of experiences. These chosen 17 creators not only tries to push notions of actions, sound, space, and happenings but how the documented act of archival residue becomes the platform for a voyeuristic experience for these elusive acts that maybe harder to pin down tangibly.
These body of work and experiments done by the students in "FORM & TIME" 2023 course at OCAD University, tackles a multimedia approach and experiments, allowing the students to expand their knowledge in mark-making that evokes themes of SPACE, FORM & TIME, while exploring, sculptures, collage, 3D work, installations, video art, animation, stop-motion, photography, projections, the ready-made, and performance to further one’s knowledge beyond ideas on drawing & painting. Rethinking the possibilities of what artmaking can be and challenging one’s concepts of making. Linking through lived and cultural experiences that each of the students tries to unravel through a multimedia of experiments and exercises to give first year students a broader sense of how ideas can manifest in art-making process.
The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce a recruited placement in partnership with LIFT for the role of Designer-in-Residence.
Alumni Relations: Summer life drawing series
Are you a first-year student in Creative Writing, Digital Futures, Indigenous Visual Culture or Visual & Critical Studies?
All OCAD U students, faculty and staff are invited to OCAD U's Academic Year Welcome keynote presentation, entitled, Advancing Black Disability Justice in Post Secondary Contexts by Dr. Sami Schalk, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alumni Relations: Summer life drawing series
Join us for “The Yes + Nos of Invoicing” a workshop covering the comprehensive journey of a well crafted invoice, from creation, packaging, delivery, to getting paid.
Monday, August 21, 11am – 12pm
online via Teams
Alumni Relations: Summer life drawing series
Spill the Tea is a series that aims to bridge the gap between emerging artists and established professionals. We bring together three guest speakers from a variety of different stages of their practice to hold a casual conversation to share advice and experiences. By having an opportunity for everyone (including you!) to share stories, questions, and lessons learned, this series hopes to inspire and empower each participant!
In this workshop, artist Kendra Yee will go over important considerations and common questions for packaging and shipping artwork as she has learned from her own professional practice.
Alumni Relations: Summer life drawing series
Join Us for an Unforgettable Creative Journey at the OCADU Artist Alley Summer Social Workshop co-presented by OAA, Fineline, and the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers!
"Becoming and moving" is a plant-based movement improvisation workshop in response to Alexandra Gelis' installation "Migrant Superpositions: convertirse en." Participants will explore themes of migration, discrimination, transformation, and the control of both humans and plants, in a collaboration with dancer and choreographer Victoria Mata, artist/designer Maxyne Baker, and Alexandra Gelis.
*Please note the plant-based movement will include partial nudity.*
In partnership with OCAD University's RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and FINELINE, and hosted by The Habit Factory, this workshop will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to build a website that truly represents your brand to help grow your business.
Artwork, historical objects and documents reflect artist JJ Lee’s Chinese Maritime family’s immigration experience in this new temporary exhibition. The mixed media installation tells the remarkable story of her family’s multi-generational emigration from China, between 1916 and 1957.
Banner: Chinese Head Tax Certificate issued to Lee Wong, 1916. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 collection, R2021.48.6