Events

Are you considering graduate-level studies? Join us on October 10th for the annual Art & Design Graduate School Fair at OCAD University to meet with representatives from top art & design universities, including OCAD University, to learn more about MFA, MDes, MA, and PhD programs throughout Canada or internationally.

Evidenced in collaboration, Shoes Off Collective (SOC) curates an interdisciplinary exhibition that weaves movement and texture to compost fixed logics of entrenched ideology. Plural and complex relations are translated through time-based media, paintings, and sculptures. Embodying queer futurities, members of SOC share and create works that envision identities flourishing in nonlinear paths towards collective liberation.

Have questions about grad school? Join us on Oct 9th for our Expert Panel series to learn about graduate funding and building a strong application!

This October, Alumni Relations is pleased to be working with Elizabeth S. Dipchand to present our upcoming Lunch & Learn: Legal Corner series. Elizabeth sits on the OCAD University Board of Governors, and practices intellectual property law and litigation. All sessions are *FREE* with registration.

New Sonic Poetries

Organized by Lillian Allen and Gregory Betts, this conference will serve to address a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary literary, musical, and sound poetry heritage across a variety of cultures. We intend to assemble a diverse collection of leading poets, sound artists, and musicians in a collaboration of diverse experimental energies. By foregrounding the work of authors who have broken through the binding silence of the page to produce astonishing and essential contributions, and engaging emerging voices in the field, we will reimagine the role of literary sound poetics in a society where silence is a luxury item, where culture is truncated by ideologies and the legacies of overlapping colonialism, and the cadence of our environment is overwhelmingly shaped by culture and capital. In a spirit of contestation to address climate change and colonialisms, we want to make noise together to expand the possibilities of contemporary performance experimentation and literary-sound scholarship. We will draw together sound poets, dub poets, digital and sound artists, and scholars of various sonic poetries in a focused exploration of the possibilities of our auditory imagination.

Come to OCAD University’s student-run OCAD Artist Alley! You'll find a wide variety of artist-made posters, prints, zines, stickers, greeting cards, ceramics, fashion, jewellery, and more from local creators. Support 50+ OCAD students and alumni as they set up shop! 

Get ready for this year’s Nuit Blanche! Onsite Gallery and The Metipso Portal International are thrilled to present a live, 12-hour experimental broadcast—CONNECTION—linking Metipso, Kenya, and Toronto, Canada!

<p><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:black;font-size:13.5pt;">Alumni Relations Life Drawing returns this October for the Fall 2024 semester!&nbsp;</span></p>

Join us for an exclusive Artist / Curator Talk with Jean Marshall and Linda Grussani!

Alumni Relations Life Drawing returns this October for the Fall 2024 semester!

A Learning Exchange presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Ontario College of Art & Design University Library. Continuing the long-lasting tradition of DIY print circulation, the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) partners with Ontario College of Art and Design University Library to present a “Learning Exchange” through a selection of shared resources. 

This October, Alumni Relations is pleased to be working with Elizabeth S. Dipchand to present our upcoming Lunch & Learn: Legal Corner series. Elizabeth sits on the OCAD University Board of Governors, and practices intellectual property law and litigation. All sessions are *FREE* with registration. 

Part of OCAD U's programming for the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. 

OCAD University community members read the 94 Calls to Action.

Join us for a screening and Q&A session with the producers and directors of the documentary, Rather Be Ashes than Dust.

OCAD University
100 McCaul Street, MCA 190 (Auditorium)

2:00pm

Join us for a talk with Elaine Gold about the Canadian Language Museum!

OCAD University Senate Meeting

On Sat., Sept. 21, celebrate the history and community of the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts as it opens its doors to the public to mark its 25th anniversary as an arts centre and home to year-round artist residency programs, events, and community programming. Coinciding with the event is the launch of an online auction to help raise funds for the centre, open until October 10.

Join us for the Teaching Awards Brown Bag Lunch Panel featuring recipients of the 2023-2024 Teaching Awards:  Ayumi Goto, Ian Keteku, Ranee Lee and James Knott. This event is a chance for the OCAD U community to celebrate the award recipients and learn about their unique pedagogical insights and strategies that have made such a significant impact on students. Panelist will be in conversation with each other and panel moderator, Laura Thrasher (FCDC).

Intramural opportunities to OCAD University students

Curated by Lauchlin MacQuarrie, with artist Dr. Pam Patterson and designer/author Mel Rapp, this exhibition explores tensions between visual distortion as generative and desirable, and the medical mapping that seeks to contain and define such distortion.