Events

OCAD U and St. Benilde students are invited to join a 6-week collaborative course exploring the intersections of photography, sustainability, and cultural practice. Through studio work, discussions, and gallery visits, participants will examine photography’s role in addressing global issues. The course runs from July to August, with mandatory in-person sessions from July 7–17 (9 AM–4 PM). Students will earn 0.5 credit (GLBE-3001) and engage in a final exhibition, critique, and reflection.

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

A Faculty of Art student-oriented regular critique meeting. 

Join the Welcome Squad and Campus Life for dinner and bingo!

A Hybrid Event: Sabbatical Presentations by Two Faculty Members.

Check out these upcoming exhibitions from OCAD U graduate students – all free and open to the public.

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

A Panel Discussion Hosted by Lesley-Ann Noel

Wednesday February 26th, 2025 @ 6:30pm

From our Point of View: Encounters with Artists is supported through the generous support of Lady Elizabeth (Pixie) Mudge Massey Shaw.

A Hybrid Event: Public Talk by Two Faculty Members.

Kelly Ross leads a workshop for OCAD U Students and Alumni on how to do taxes as an artist or designer.

Join OCAD U Alumni Relations and Barbara Gilbert from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) to learn more about the Media Artists Creation Projects program. 

Nominations are being accepted to fill Faculty Area and Faculty At-Large vacancies on the 2025/2026 OCAD University Senate membership.

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 the Welcome Squad and International Student Support Office on Feb. 19 for a hip-hop dance class at the Art Gallery of Ontario! 

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

Celebrate Valentine's Day... or Anti-Valentine's Day... with OCAD U Student Clubs and the Welcome Squad!

OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create the Critical Distance Exhibition Essay Career Launcher.

OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create the Critical Distance Public Art Billboard Career Launcher.

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. 

Make: Wearable Electronics, Second Edition Book Launch

Join the Welcome Squad and International Student Support Office on Feb. 12 for a hip-hop dance class at the Art Gallery of Ontario!

An exciting opportunity is here for GradEx students! The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is working with the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair to provide those participating in GradEx an opportunity to showcase their work at this year’s Toronto Outdoor Art Fair.

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.

Partial 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 (2023 + 2024).

Gallery reception of Awenda Inspired! exhibition