Coffee Chat w/ Gracia Lam
Date/Time: Thursday, March 21, 2024, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: CEAD, 115 McCaul St., 3rd Floor
RSVP: https://bit.ly/CoffeeChatGraciaLam
Coffee Chats is a series of casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating a community.
Gracia is an award winning illustrator born in Hong Kong and raised in Toronto. She specializes in editorial and commercial illustrations with clients including Nike, Google, YouTube, and Adobe. She also runs a passion project making and selling bottled Hong Kong milk-tea, has co-founded a coworking space for creatives in 401 Richmond, and works on pro-bono projects for the LGBTQ community.
General themes for the talk:
• How to get clients
• Turning passion projects into paid work
• Is an Illustration Agent worth it (I have one)
• Money: Fees & Negotiations
Website: https://www.gracialam.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smalilams
This event will take place at the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (115 McCaul St, Level 3). This event will not be recorded to preserve the conversational nature of the series.
115 McCaul St is located at the corner of Dundas St and McCaul St on the southeast side. All levels of the building can be accessed via elevator or stairs. The building is wheelchair accessible. There are gendered washrooms on level 3 and gender-neutral private washrooms on levels 1 & 2.
Spots limited. RSVP Required
If you are no longer able to attend, please change your RSVP status for us to open the event to others.