Events

Convening Toronto’s most creative and influential minds in the art and design sector, OCAD University is excited to launch Toronto’s newest signature event! 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

This presentation introduces Being There, a virtual reality museum that highlights the stories of migrant women from Latin America, created through a COIL project.

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus.

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Artist Talk: Sylvia Whitton, Drawing and Painting Associate Professor.

This presentation is a collaboration between Daniel Wildberger and Erik Páez, sparked by a central question: How might a former student and teacher co-design a talk that weaves their histories in design and education together?

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

OCAD University Senate Meeting

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

This term, experience the OCAD U Winter 2025 Design Charrette, leading into OCAD U’s Design Week! Join the workshop and design new Affordable, Transitional, and Supportive Housing solutions across Ontario! Work directly with leading Ontario community associations to develop concept designs for future housing projects that are desperately needed. We are looking for students and professionals from multiple programs and disciplines, as the Design Charrette is a collaborative and creative process that brings together diverse groups of students, professionals, and community stakeholders over an intense period of brainstorming to imagine, plan, and implement a collective future. 

WHAT IS INVOLVED? Interdisciplinary teams tackle a complex and wicked challenge, thus being encouraged to take a systematic perspective to the problem at hand. The projects are related to real life challenges and therefore engage community stakeholders and professional advisors and experts to help enrich the examination of the problem at hand. The approach to the problem involves co-creation, not only with the charrette teams but with the project stakeholders and the community at large and the general public and planet in general which have to live with and use the solutions that are being developed. Concepts are then developed into working prototype solutions, culminating in formal presentations to the larger group, forcing the teams to learn how to effectively communicate these solutions to others.

WHAT:

On behalf of the Dean of Design, Lesley-Ann Noel, we invite you to make a meaningful impact in this exciting, intensive design workshop event.

THE PROBLEM: 

Ontario faces a critical shortage of affordable and supportive housing, leaving many vulnerable populations without adequate shelter. Addressing this issue requires innovative, interdisciplinary solutions.

THE SOLUTION:

This Design Charrette brings together students, professionals, community stakeholders, and experts to collaboratively develop concept designs. 

THE BENEFITS: 

• Collaborative Innovation: Participants gain hands-on experience tackling complex, wicked challenges.
• Real-World Impact: Solutions address pressing housing needs.
• Prototype Creation: Concepts are developed into actionable designs and presented to stakeholders.
• Certification: Receive recognition from OCAD U for participation.
• Professional Development: Work alongside community leaders including Homes First, The Gathering Place, The Neighbourhood Group, St. Stephens Community Apartments, Catholic Children’s Aid Society Toronto, and the Boys and Girls Club.

Taking place in person February 20-24, 2025, at the OCAD U Waterfront Campus, 130 Queens Quay East Tower. For more information and to register, sign up at this link: https://forms.gle/PkP2r5grQmuUdw5Z6 .

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

A Faculty of Art student-oriented regular critique meeting. 

Onsite Gallery is thrilled to announce its annual Black History Month guest lecture featuring esteemed curator eunice bélidor. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

A symposium where students and the community discuss the work done by book artists, from the concept to the production methods.

Directed by b.h. Yael

A 97-minute film screening follows with filmmaker Q&A

This call invites proposals to exhibit multimedia, installation, digital, social practice and/or performance artworks at the opening night of DXC and lead a complimentary workshop on the theme of Counterbalance, which explores growing suppression and censorship as a site of artistic innovation and democratic possibility. 

Selected artists will participate as delegates for the summit's duration and represent the role of the arts in strengthening democracies and civil societies.

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Take part in an insightful curatorial tour of the exhibition Fortitude/Fragile with guest curator Magda González-Mora.

Kafka's Metamorphosis animation is a modern classic that examines a family and societial reaction towards a decent young man's tragic fall of transforming into a large insect. It combines horror, emotional appeal and an underlying black comedy. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

The Office of Research and Innovation invites you to attend Research Talks featuring Dr Haru Ji, recipient of the 2023-24 OCAD University Research Awards.

Please join us in celebrating research excellence at OCAD University!

Isabel Machado will discuss the challenges and positive results of building inclusive classroom communities through public-facing collaborative projects by applying her research methodology to her course design.

Come and learn about CARFAC Ontario from the artistic director, Flora Shum, and how CARFAC advocates for artist rights, provides one-on-one support, and creates resources to help guide, inspire, promote opportunity, and contribute to empowering artistic endeavours.

Afrocurrences is an exhibition/art show presented by the Almeda Collective (OCAD University’s Black Student Collective). Curated by Wuliyah Hankey, this exhibition will showcase artworks in multiple mediums by Black students at OCAD University. With the theme of community, students were asked to reflect on how the inherent connection among Black individuals in various spaces influences their creative practices.