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Events Archive

June 12, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
June 12, 2019
Legal Intersections is a four-part series addressing legal issues of importance to artists, designers, and cultural workers. The series is presented in collaboration with the Artists’ Legal Advice Services, the Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers at OCAD University, and the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
June 10, 2019
Honouring and celebrating LGBTQ2S+ activist knowledge during Pride Month 2019. Drop by ODESI to pick up a poster!
June 10, 2019
This workshop will support you in improving your English communication skills, and is open to all year levels, programs, and students. 
June 9, 2019
A special visit to T.M. Glass’ traditional Arts & Crafts Garden
June 8, 2019
PMBL Collective Summer ExhibitionPainters Make Better Lovers invites artists and makers from the OCADU community to submit works for an upcoming group show in the summer of 2019. We ask that submissions thematically fall in line with PMBL’s values, following Molly Zuckerman Hartung’s “95 Theses on Painting”, and be of a painterly practice (work that tugs at the boundaries of painting but are not necessarily limited to traditional media). Submissions are open to all OCADU students, alumni, and Toronto artists with ties to the school.
May 7 - June 8, 2019
OCADU Illustration students have outdone themselves this year with 7 works of art accepted into the 2019 Student Scholarship Exhibition!
June 5-7, 2019
Help raise funds for students attending Florence in fall 2019
June 5, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 24 - June 4, 2019
OCAD U Instructor Skip Dean is part of Scotiabank 'CONTACT' Photography Festival , a Fine Art photography exhibition and competition1
June 4, 2019
June is Bike Month! Get on your wheels and ride with OCAD U!
May 10-31, 2019
Students and faculty of the International Collaboration Studio (INTAC) present “A Thousand Words”. The exhibition brings together the collaborative projects made by students in 7 countries over the past 8 months on themes related to language and communication. Part of the 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
May 2-31, 2019
Join us for the opening reception of Text • ure: woven words.: a nest exhibition of text-based works by OCAD U undergraduate students, curated by the 2019 Editorial Board.
May 30, 2019
The Birth of Venus launch. Participanting in the event will be: Rei Misiri, David R. Carlson, Beatriz Hausner, Luciano Iacobelli, Natasa Krsmanovic, Dexter Benson-Barnett
May 30, 2019
On May 30, 2019, Hallwalls presents an art auction featuring approximately forty internationally and regionally acclaimed artists. Every artwork will be auctioned live.
May 29, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 29, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 29, 2019
The works of the exhibition’s 12 artists approach textile through creative exploration, technical mastery and a bold new approach to materials. They create a diverse outlook on the possibilities of textile in the interface between contemporary art and design, with the exhibition placing a new frame on textile’s ancient role as a bearer of stories, information and culture
May 29, 2019
Sent on behalf of the 2018/19 residents of the CAREER LAUNCHER ILLUSTRATION STUDIO  It's the end of our wonderful stay at 401 Richmond and we're celebrating with a final show & sale!   
May 13-27, 2019
An exhibition of works exploring pan-Asian Canadian foods: recipes developed from hybridity, alienation, assimilation, survival, and poverty.
May 27, 2019
June is Bike Month! Get on your wheels and ride with OCAD U!
May 25, 2019
General(s) Labour, a performance by ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee), conflates the domestic and the larger notion of women’s labour with the “work” of an artist.
May 22, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 21, 2019
Register to have your digital photography portfolio reviewed by professional lens-based artists Kotama Bouabane, April Hickox and Meera Margaret Singh
May 8-19, 2019
ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson & Leena Raudvee) as performance company has, for over 30 years, engaged in practices that are both time-based and that produce objects.
May 12-18, 2019
Issues Magazine is a biannual-ish risograph printed magazine celebrating modern-day issues, as a way of dealing with—and not succumbing to—the mundane annoyances that affect us all. Each issue is dedicated to a different "issue" and the various ways it manifests itself in our lives.
April 10 - May 18, 2019
The solo exhibition, titled Running out of ink, will take place from April 10 to May 18, with an opening reception on Saturday April 13 , 2019,  from 3 to 5 p.m., at Birch Contemporary. 
May 17, 2019
You are invited to the inaugural event of Asia-Global-Cultural-Studies-Forum (AGCSF) (Toronto based) in May 17 (room 115, 205 Richmond St West). The event poster is also attached in this email. Please pass on this to anyone who might be interested in this event, and also to be presenters (in the future event) and/ discussants. If you are a faculty member and want to be invited as a member of its advisory board, please let me know. This forum aspires primarily to be a young researchers-artists-designer-activist-strategists-oriented research platform. Yet it is also an integrated fora aiming to facilitate a lively intellectual conversation between students, professors, and professionals in the field.  Read the vision statement at the bottom of this email and also on our website.  https://asiaglobalculturalstudiesforum.wordpress.com
May 17, 2019
AGCSF is a forum of a lively discussion of Asia and Asia Global-related art, design, culture, media, creative strategy, and research.
April 22 - May 17, 2019
Public opening on May 5th from 1-4 pm
May 16, 2019
Creative practice as a catalyst for placemeaking in Scarborough.
May 15, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 15, 2019
Open life drawing session offered by the OCAD U Alumni Association
May 15, 2019
Join the Drawing and Painting Programme at OCAD University for a Celebration of John Scott's Retirement from OCAD University
May 14, 2019
Impulseb launching Impulse Interviews 1978-1990 with Nick Haramis and Eldon Garnet interviewing each other
May 2-12, 2019
Nuit Blanche Toronto is seeking applications to the part-time Community Engagement Assistant position. Supported by the Career Launcher program, the position will include a full integration into the professional environment of the City Cultural Events Team at the City of Toronto.
May 10, 2019
Collective City is proud to present three new documentaries that chronicle the rich and vibrant history of Toronto-based visual arts collectives at the MOCA, Friday May 10, at 7 pm. This is a free event. Please RSVP on the link as seating is limited:
May 9, 2019
Fashion Studies is publishing its second issue this upcoming May 9th, 2019 and we invite you to celebrate the launch with us @ The Catalyst! Fashion Studies is an open-access, academic journal in fashion that celebrates multiple ways of knowing and sharing knowledge.  
May 8, 2019
Free public reception of Onsite Gallery's newest exhibition, T.M. Glass: The Audible Language of Flowers
May 1-7, 2019
The White People Problem is a series of experimental works that seek to engage white settlers on issues of colonialism, inequity, and white privilege. Grounded in Boyce’s personal experiences, this work is her response to conversations within her own family and social in groups in Northern Ontario. Rather than bringing bar graphs to Christmas dinner, she uses a multiple fabrication techniques to create pieces that seek to reverse and subvert the white gaze.
May 1-5, 2019
More than 800 promising young artists and designers are exhibiting at OCAD University's 104th GradEx! This year, GradEx is a five-day exhibition spread across several buildings on campus including the iconic Sharp Centre for Design. The university will throw open its doors, inviting the community to see works by the creative minds of OCAD U’s Class of 2019.
April 4 - May 4, 2019
Feeding Fish is a new body of work by Scott Everingham, which explores painting as shipwrecks – both in their ultimate ending and in their potential for discovery.
May 1-3, 2019
An international symposium to release the findings of the StudentDwellTO research partnership and discuss alternatives to the housing (un)affordability crisis.
May 3, 2019
Please join the Journal of Visual and Critical Studies in celebrating the unique approaches to art history and visual culture that are being explored by students at OCAD University. The new volume of the Journal of Visual & Critical Studies comprises critical essays, exhibition reviews, and thesis abstracts, and will be available at the launch. Snacks, refreshments, and cake will be provided.
May 3, 2019
Students in the BA (Honours) Program in Visual and Critical Studies will present their thesis projects in a public symposium. Friday, May 3rd, 2019; 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m; 100 McCaul St., Room 325.
May 1, 2019
Toronto Queer Film Festival  (TQFF) is showcasing student work again this fall! We are seeking film + video work under 20 minutes in length. Preference for work created in or after 2017.
April 23-30, 2019
An MFA Thesis Exhibition by Kirstie McCallum
April 29, 2019
Xpace Cultural Centre welcomes applications for the Career Launcher position of Programming Coordinator. 
April 22-28, 2019
Please join us for an end of year social and celebration of our First Year Drawing and Painting Student Self Portraits!