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[Announcing Anoosh Mubashar, Gabby Golec, Mark Krzepis, and Nik October-Clydesdale as the recipients of the 401 Richmond Illustration Studio Career Launcher!](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/2625) May 24, 2024 # Announcing Anoosh Mubashar, Gabby Golec, Mark Krzepis, and Nik October-Clydesdale as the recipients of the 401 Richmond Illustration Studio Career Launcher! ![](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/assets/media/401%20richmond%20-news.jpg.webp?itok=77gsR9_j) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce [**Anoosh Mubashar**](https://anooshm.myportfolio.com/), [**Gabby Golec**](https://gabbygolec.format.com/), [**Mark Krzepis**](https://www.instagram.com/krzepism), and [**Nik October-Clydesdale**](https://nikoctober.com/) as the recipients of the [**401 Richmond**](http://www.401richmond.com/) **Illustration Studio Career Launcher**. ![](/sites/default/files/inline-images/Artboard%201.jpg) [**Anoosh Mubashar**](https://anooshm.myportfolio.com/) is a Toronto-based artist who enjoys working in many mediums, especially paint and printmaking. She is inspired by the human mind, nature, and expresses art through familial stories of nostalgia and growing pains. She enjoys incorporating graphic street styles with dainty, rendered images to explore the contradictions found in everyday life. Website: [anooshm.myportfolio.com](https://anooshm.myportfolio.com/) Instagram: [@anart45m](https://www.instagram.com/anart45m/) [**Gabby Golec**](https://gabbygolec.format.com/illustration) is a multidisciplinary illustrator and comic artist based in Toronto. Their work often explores the contradictory forms of soft, yet jagged bodies, capturing them with a sense of spontaneity and vulnerability. Gabby also enjoys drawing bugs and people in love. Website: [gabbygolec.format.com/illustration](https://gabbygolec.format.com/illustration) Instagram: [@slugtrain](https://www.instagram.com/slugtrain/) [**Mark Krzepis**](https://www.instagram.com/krzepism/?hl=en) is a Toronto illustrator whose work muddies the line between high and low subject matter. Inspired by literature, music, art history, and the absurd, he draws upon themes of human nature relevant in both fine art and low brow illustration. Through a colourful complementary palette and animated shapes, Mark taps into the rich knowledge of traditional illustration. He has illustrated cover art for Toronto artists such as BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson, conducted interviews with creatives like Wolfgang Tillmans, and exhibited in art galleries in both Canada and the United States. Instagram: [@krzepism](https://www.instagram.com/krzepism) [**Nik October-Clydesdale**](https://nikoctober.com/) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. They graduated from Queen's University in 2016 and Ontario College of Art and Design in 2024, where they were awarded the Illustration program medal for their thesis, "Permeability". Nik works in illustration, ceramics, and painting, with a focus on materiality and intimacy. Website: [nikoctober.com](http://www.nikoctober.com/) Instagram: [@nikoctober](https://www.instagram.com/nikoctober/) Learn more about our Career Launchers at:[ https://careerlaunchers.format.com](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/) ## Other Recent News [### 2026-27 Call for Funding Proposals for Student Groups that Support Creative Entrepreneurship on Campus The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) invites OCAD University student groups with a mandate to support entrepreneurship on campus to apply for funding for student-led initiatives that strengthen and expand the creative entrepreneurship ecosystem at OCAD U. This funding is intended to help student groups create opportunities for entrepreneurship skills development, community building, and revenue-generating activities for students and recent alumni, while reducing barriers to participation for equity-seeking individuals. November 6, 2026 ](/news/2026-27-call-funding-proposals-student-groups-support-creative-entrepreneurship-campus) [### 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. Four (4) to five (5) selected emerging artists will receive $690 to exhibit work in a single channel, projection-based screening program that will be displayed at the CDCC in March 2027. October 30, 2026 ](/news/2027-critical-distance-centre-curators-projections-program-call-artists) [### Call for Vendors: BAM! 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