## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [News and Stories](/index%2Ephp/news) 3. [Announcing Cassidy Alejandria as the recipient of the 2026 Gallery 44 Vitrines Curatorial Incubator Career Launcher!](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/4401) April 28, 2026 # Announcing Cassidy Alejandria as the recipient of the 2026 Gallery 44 Vitrines Curatorial Incubator Career Launcher! ![Gallery 44 vitrines displaying artwork by Philip Leonard Ocampo](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2026-01/G44-Philip%20Leonard%20Ocampo.jpeg.webp?itok=mFcRXa2y) "Philip Leonard Ocampo, Animorphs*, photo documentation by Darren Rigo at Gallery 44 (Toronto), 2025 rgb(255,255,255) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce **Cassidy Alejandria** as the recipient of the [**2026 Gallery 44 Vitrines Curatorial Incubator Career Launcher!**](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/2026-g44) As part of this Career Launcher opportunity, she will curate a project in the Gallery 44 Vitrines, opening in September 2026. ![Recipient of the 2026 Gallery44 Career Launchers](/sites/default/files/2026-04/CL%20Recipient_G44%28square%29.png) **Cassidy Alejandria bio:** Cassidy Alejandria is a Filipina-Canadian art historian and emerging curator based in Toronto, ON. She is a second-year MFA candidate in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice program at OCAD University. Her research interests include feminist curation, Filipina feminisms, embodiment, activist and socially engaged arts, and epistemology. For her thesis exhibition, she explores questions of how incorporating embodied experience in curation can disrupt hierarchies of knowledge and serve as a bridge between historical and contemporary feminisms. [Website](https://portfolio-cassidyalejandria.format.com/) --- Learn more about our Career Launchers at: [https://careerlaunchers.format.com](https://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. 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) [### OCAD U’s Global Centre for Climate Action and EU bring large-scale art to Toronto’s Canada Malting Silos The Light and Melting Temporalities transformed the waterfront into a canvas for climate reflection. October 6, 2026 ](/index%2Ephp/news/ocad-us-global-centre-climate-action-and-eu-bring-large-scale-art-torontos-canada-malting) [### Call for Project Participants: From Our Points of View Encounters with Artists A student-led year-long visiting artist project, under the mentorship of Governor General's Award winning artist Max Dean September 30, 2026 ](/news/call-project-participants-our-points-view-encounters-artists) Related Stories ## Related Stories [### 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) [### 2027 Critical Distance Centre for Curators Projections Program Call for Curators OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create the CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. One (1) emerging Curator will receive $1,700 to curate a single channel, projection-based screening program of work from the OCAD U community. The Projections Program will be displayed at the CDCC for six-weeks in March 2027. September 27, 2026 ](/news/2027-critical-distance-centre-curators-projections-program-call-curators) [### 2027 DesignTO Exhibition Stantec Window Gallery Call for Artists DesignTO, Stantec Window Gallery and the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers are excited to announce a public window gallery exhibition Career Launcher. One (1) exhibition proposal will receive a total of $1,230 to show their work as part of the 2027 DesignTO Festival. September 20, 2026 ](/news/2027-designto-exhibition-stantec-window-gallery-call-artists)