Events

Join us for the Teaching Awards Brown Bag Lunch Panel featuring recipients of the 2023-2024 Teaching Awards:  Ayumi Goto, Ian Keteku, Ranee Lee and James Knott. This event is a chance for the OCAD U community to celebrate the award recipients and learn about their unique pedagogical insights and strategies that have made such a significant impact on students. Panelist will be in conversation with each other and panel moderator, Laura Thrasher (FCDC).

Intramural opportunities to OCAD University students

Curated by Lauchlin MacQuarrie, with artist Dr. Pam Patterson and designer/author Mel Rapp, this exhibition explores tensions between visual distortion as generative and desirable, and the medical mapping that seeks to contain and define such distortion.

A group exhibition, curated by Phil Anderson and assisted by Madeleine Young, showcases a diverse range of traditional and contemporary sculptures by various artists, revisiting the gallery's rich history with the medium.

Join us for the Teaching Awards Brown Bag Lunch Panel event featuring recipients of the 2023-2024 Teaching Awards.This is an in person event in 113 McCaul St., Level 5, Room 512.  Light refreshments will be provided, bring your lunch and enjoy the conversation between the panelists and moderator, Laura Thrasher (FCDC).  

All OCAD U faculty, students and staff welcome!

Don't miss out on an extraordinary durational performance with Natalie Waldburger—join us for an unforgettable experience!

Dream Machines: The Expanded Future of Moving Images and Immersive Storytelling

Make a difference in the governance of OCAD U!

Join us for an in-person welcome to Graduate Studies at OCAD University!

Blanket Fort City is a landscape that explores the works of Mel Bleecker, Ernesto Cabral, Callum Donovan-Grujicich, Emma Ducharme, Carmen Mahave, Bianca Nam, Byori Seo, Carson Van Vliet, and Sohyun Yoon. 

New undergraduate students (studying in our bachelor programs) are invited to join us on the campus to kick off the academic year!

Fall Orientation 2024

Join us for a guided tour of OCAD University.

<p><span style="color:#212121;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;">OCAD U’s Faculty of Art is pleased to announce an opportunity for up to 16 students to participate in </span><em><span style="color:#212121;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;">From Our Point of View: Encounters with Artists</span></em><span style="color:#212121;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;">, a year-long visiting artist project running until Spring 2025. The student participants in </span><em><span style="color:#212121;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;">From Our Point of View: Encounters with Artists</span></em><span style="color:#212121;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;">, will work together to host 4 established senior Canadian artists across the year.&nbsp;</span></p>

Join us on a visit to one of the greatest art museums in North America!

<p style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;"><strong>Modelling International Collaborations&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><strong>Book Launch and Public Symposium</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;">Date: Thursday, August 29</span></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;">Location: MCA 240, 100 McCaul St.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;">Time: 9:30 – 12:00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;">All are Welcome, No RSVP</span></li></ul>

<p>Nominations are now being accepted for student Board of Governors and Senate positions.<br>&nbsp;</p>

OCAD U students have access to GMSSP; learn more about this free mental health resource accessible 365/24/7! 

Engaging in Brave and Compassionate Conversations.

OCAD U’s Academic Year Welcome (AYW) brings together all faculty and staff to celebrate the beginning of a new academic year and to reflect as a community on shared commitments and priorities. This year's AYW explores the theme of Engaging in Brave and Compassionate Conversations in Art and Design Education through a keynote panel discussion and facilitated Q&A. A presentation of the 2023-2024 Teaching Awards recipients follows. The event concludes with a social/reception at Onsite gallery. 

Learn more about your health and dental benefits plan! 

Make plans to attend CONNECT U, a social/connection opportunity for Peer Mentors, Student Mentees and any other first-year students interested!

Join us to learn about working on campus through the Campus Employment Program for International Students (CEPIS)!

Learn about accessibility, counselling, health and other services provided at the SWC. 

In this tour, we are going to show you grocery stores, pharmacies, restaurants and shopping malls near the campus.

The 2020 Alumni of Influence Awards Ceremony & Reception will be held online the evening of TBC.

New and first-year undergraduate students are invited to join us to kick-start the fall term!

This casual, drop-in event is a great way for international students to learn about OCAD U support and services!