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# Drawing Out: Art Now
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A three-day Art festival curated by James Olley and Amy Swartz marking OCAD University's 150-year legacy through performance, participation, and expanded approaches to drawing.
The Great Hall 100 McCaul St.
October 27 - 29, 2026
Department OCAD U 150, Faculty of Art, The Great Hall
Faculty Faculty of Art
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The Great Hall 100 McCaul St.
October 27 - 29, 2026
Department OCAD U 150, Faculty of Art, The Great Hall
Faculty Faculty of Art
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## ***Drawing Out: Art Now***
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### OCAD U 150 Celebration
***Drawing Out: Art Now*** is a three-day Art festival curated by James Olley and Amy Swartz marking OCAD University's 150-year legacy through performance, participation, and expanded approaches to drawing. The program foregrounds contemporary art practices in which gesture, movement, and live action intersect with mark-making. In this context, drawing is an act of movement: a way of thinking, understanding, and making through the body, becoming both process and trace.
- #### Tuesday, October 27: Drawing Disco
6:00 - 9:00 PM
- #### Wednesday, October 28: Drawing in 4 Parts
1:30 - 4:30 PM
- #### Thursday, October 29: Drawing to a Close
5:30 - 8:30 PM
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### ***Drawing Disco***
#### A party-meets-performance drawing event.
Erin Finley's drawing practice demystifies traditional drawing, viewing mark-making as an accessible, therapeutic human action. Ultimately, her work transforms drawing into a community-centered performance, fostering neuroplasticity, shared resilience, and collective joy.
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- Tuesday, October 27, 6 to 9 PM
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Space limited!!!
- 19+ event
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### ***Drawing in 4 Parts***
A series of performances and installations exploring drawing through paper, sculpture, material transformation, and durational processes.
- Wednesday, October 28, 1:30 to 4:30 PM
- Free Admissions
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### Natalie Waldburger
Natalie Majaba Waldburger's art practice engages the complexities of collaboration and institutional critique within anti-colonial research. At OCAD, Natalie teaches in Life Studies and is the current Associate Dean in the Faculty of Art. As a mixed-race Filipinx/Swiss artist, Natalie engages with diasporic narratives within the context of environmental responsiveness and bio-material practices.
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### Cybèle Young
Cybèle Young is a Canadian artist and author based in Toronto whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, kinetic installation, book arts, animation, film, performance, and participatory projects. Working with Japanese paper for more than thirty years, she creates poetic works that explore transformation, movement, ritual, play, and the animacy of handmade forms.
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### Sophie Dunkley
Sophie Dunkley is a queer Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist pursuing a BFA in Integrated Media at OCAD University. Working across installation, performance, and soft sculpture, their practice explores agency, collaboration, and the interplay between body and technology. Dunkley's work is currently featured in the national touring exhibition Textures of Canada.
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### TooPink
TooPink is an interdisciplinary emerging artist based in Toronto. She works with many mediums including film, installation, drawing, paint-ing, performance art, and experimental photography. She is a student at OCADu in the Integrated Media program where she explores mark making and performance as methods to connect and collaborate with audiences.
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### ***Drawing to a Close***
#### Performance-based works exploring identity, memory, gesture, storytelling, and social exchange through expanded drawing practices.
- Thursday, October 29, 5 to 8 PM
- Pay what you can
#### ***Honouring Cathy Daley: Performance by James Knott***
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### James Knott
James Knott is a Toronto-based artist, member of the 7a\*11d Toronto Performance Art Collective, and graduate of OCAD University Their practice spans performance, music, and moving images to explore themes of queer and trans identity, and how archetypes of femininity and masculinity can interrogate the politics of desire.
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### Pixel Heller
Pixel Heller is a multidisciplinary artist, international performer and the founder of Northern Jumbies Inc. based in Toronto, Canada.
Her work spans performance, photography, textiles, ceramics and painting. Influenced by her Afro-Caribbean heritage, her practice engages with themes of Black identity, cultural preservation and carnival masquerade
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### Francisco-Fernando Granados
Since 2005, his multidisciplinary practice has traced his movement from convention refugee to critical citizen, using abstraction performatively, site-specifically, and relationally, to create projects that challenge the stability of practices of recognition.
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Special thanks to Aiyana Alzamora and Celine Fu for the design.
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