Events

Alumni Relations Life Drawing

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

You will have the opportunity to discuss shifts in the creative sector, learn about the WAAC’s history, ask questions, and network with contemporary artists and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Looking for some feedback on your work, career path, or life after OCAD U? Book a one-on-one career mentorship session with our Fall 2024 Creative Professional-In-Residence, Tiah Khuu! Tiah will be present at the CEAD every Thursday from 12 - 4 PM during the Fall semester.

Sankofa Square (formerly Yonge-Dundas Square) and the Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers are excited to announce the return of the annual Black History Month Digital Exhibition Career Launcher providing an exhibition opportunity for artists from the OCAD U community to exhibit their work on the square’s digital screens.

The OCAD U Creative Professionals-In-Residence program is back once again! Join us for a design talk with Tiah Khuu to learn more about his practice and ways he can offer feedback and career development support this semester.

The opening reception is taking place on October 25 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Ada Slaight Gallery, second floor, 100 McCaul St., followed by an artist from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in room MCA 230.

Unfinished and Impermanent is a workshop designed to reflect upon notions of impermanence and purposeful incompleteness as catalysts for creativity and imagination. The workshop is composed of a lecture, film screenings and tool kit development. 

Join us for the second edition of our speaker series with artist and professor, Natalie Majaba Waldburger (OCAD U) and curator and author, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez.

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

Between Ashes and Dreams engages with the urgency of the global climate crisis, oscillating between imagination, reality, and future possibilities. Drawing on the intertwined narratives of climate change, migration, and overconsumption, works in the exhibition raise questions about human agency and responsibility. They examine our symbiotic relationships, entanglements, and coexistence with the environment, asking how we might move beyond destruction. 

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

Alex Sarian (author, The Audacity of Relevance) speaks to Elamin Abdelmahmoud (host of CBC's Commotion) about the future of Canadian culture.

Join OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers and the International Students Support Office for a workshop and working session on starting your own business.

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. 

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OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to partner with the Writers Guild of Canada to create an exclusive call-for-submissions from members of the OCAD U community.

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

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!