Building Your Creative Business
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OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) invites you to join Kelcy Timmons Chan for Building Your Creative Business, a workshop designed to help artists and designers take their creative practice to the next level.
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Building Your Creative Business
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Location: CEAD, 115 McCaul Street, 3rd Floor
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) invites you to join Kelcy Timmons Chan for Building Your Creative Business, a workshop designed to help artists and designers take their creative practice to the next level.
Whether you’re struggling to expand your business, find your audience, or improve your marketing, this session offers practical, real-world strategies to support your growth. Participants will learn how to:
- identify their ideal buyers
- strengthen and personalize their marketing
- network more effectively
- invest intentionally in their goals
- build a recognizable creative brand
Hear Kelcy share how they built their own creative practice and walk away with tools you can use throughout your career.
About the Speaker
Kelcy Timmons Chan (they/them) is a Cantonese Canadian American queer pop artist and mural painter based in Toronto. Through their lens as a biracial, gender-fluid immigrant, Kelcy explores belonging, cultural pride, and food as a universal love language. Their work amplifies stories of family-owned restaurants and queer spaces, depicting how community and place shape our sense of home. Featuring their signature “little purple people,” Kelcy’s art creates bustling, intricate scenes that invite viewers to reflect on how community and food shape belonging.
Access Notes
- Open to OCAD U students and alumni
- Stim toys will be available for in-person participants
- Light Ssnacks and refreshments will be provided
- Masks are optional on campus; please respect varying comfort levels. Masks are available in the CEAD
- Accessibility information
- For accessibility questions, contact Andrea Rodriguez at entrepreneurship@ocadu.ca
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