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[2025 Trinity Square Video Vitrine Career Launcher Call for Media Artists](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3556) August 4, 2025 # 2025 Trinity Square Video Vitrine Career Launcher Call for Media Artists ![Artworks left to right: Kwesi Adabie, A Legacy of Tradition and Spirituality, 2024; Aidan Cowling, A Place To Put Things, 2022; Maalik McCoy, The Botanist, 2022; Sarah Koekkoek, Future Living Room, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-06/2025%20TSV%20CL_Banner.png.webp?itok=2mwP7zcX) Artworks left to right: Aidan Cowling, A Place To Put Things, 2022; Maalik McCoy, The Botanist, 2022. rgb(255,255,255) #### **2025 Trinity Square Video Vitrine Career Launcher Call for Media Artists** **Application Deadline: Monday, August 4, 2025, 11:59 PM** [**Click here to learn more about this opportunity.**](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/2025-tsv-vitrine) [**Apply via Typeform here!**](https://ocadu-cead.typeform.com/2025TSV-vitrine) **Trinity Square Video** (TSV) and the **RBC** **Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers** are excited to announce a Career Launcher providing an exhibition opportunity for one (1) media artist from the OCAD U community to exhibit their work at Trinity Square Video’s Vitrine at 401 Richmond St. throughout the month of September 2025. The successful applicant will receive an **exhibition fee of $600 (provided by TSV) plus a material and installation fee of $600 (provided by CEAD).** Trinity Square Video (TSV), one of Canada’s leading artist-run centres for media arts, invites applications from currentOCAD students and recent alumni to **exhibit existing work** in our VitrineSeries. This is a paid opportunity to showcase **time-based, new media, or conceptual work** in our visible 24/7 display case that connects TSV’s programming to passersby and gallery visitors. We are prioritizing submissions from artistswho identify as Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled, and/or from equity-deserving communities. Measurements of Vitrine: 54" wide x 77" height x 17 1/2" depth \[image below\] #### **RESPONSIBILITIES & TIMELINE:** The selected emerging artists will: - Work closely with TSV staff to ensure artworks are delivered and installed according to the timeline below. - August 20, 2025: Artists selected and notified by this date - September 2, 2025: Install artwork - September 4 – 30, 2025: Exhibition Dates #### **SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:** Please provide the following information in **one PDF document**: - **Full contact information** (Name, phone, and email) - Current **resume** or **CV** - **Website** and/or **social media** - Artistic **statement/bio** (150 words max) - **Project Description** (ie: about the artwork and how you plan to install it in the TSV Vitrine (300 words max) - Up to **5 - 8 support materials** – images, links, or PDFs (Link to videos or images proposed for the project (Vimeo, Youtube, Google Drive, or your website). Please do not send more than 2-3 videos or 5-8 images. - A **corresponding list for the support images** including: artist name, title, year, medium, size, and duration (for time-based work). - **Technical needs** – A/V equipment, monitors, lighting, etc. #### **PARTNER:** **Trinity Square Video** [www.trinitysquarevideo.com](https://trinitysquarevideo.com/) 121–401Richmond St W Toronto, ON #### **ELIGIBILITY:** - Current OCAD U undergraduate students in any discipline who have completed a minimum of 15+ credits graduating in 2026 - **or** current OCAD U Master's students - **or** recent OCAD U Alumni who graduated in 2025 or 2024 \*Collectives and groups are welcome to apply as long as the group consists only of eligible OCAD U students/grads. Please note: one (1) exhibition fee per group or collective (rather than each individual member). \*Priority may be given to applicants who have not previously received a Career Launcher opportunity \*\*If you have already received this opportunity in a previous year, you are not eligible to apply #### **RATE:** - $600 Artist fee (provided by TSV) - $600 Material and Installation fee (provided by CEAD) #### **SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION:** [**Apply via Typeform here!**](https://ocadu-cead.typeform.com/2025TSV-vitrine) --- For more info about this and other Career Launchers visit [www.careerlaunchers.format.com](http://www.careerlaunchers.format.com/) ## Other Recent News [### 2027 Critical Distance Centre for Curators Projections Program Call for Artists OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. 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