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[Announcing Liz Adler as the recipient and Ash Woolf as the runner-up for the 2024 Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) Residency Career Launcher!](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/963) May 10, 2024 # Announcing Liz Adler as the recipient and Ash Woolf as the runner-up for the 2024 Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) Residency Career Launcher! ![](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/assets/media/Tais-news_1.jpg.webp?itok=yS9eBAkJ) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce [**Liz Adler**](https://lizadler.format.com/) as the recipient and [**Ash Woolf**](http://www.ashwoolf.ca/) as the runner-up for the [**Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS)**](http://www.tais.ca/) Residency Career Launcher! ![](/sites/default/files/inline-images/Liz%20Adler-IG.jpg)**Recipient:** [**Liz Adler**](https://lizadler.format.com/) Liz Adler is a Toronto based stop-motion animator and documentary filmmaker. She studied Experimental Animation at OCAD University, exploring video production, sound design and illustration along her animated practice. Last year, she worked on Birutė Sodekaite’s animated short, *In Perpetuum*, as an intern at Stop Motion Department Inc. She is currently experimenting with a music documentary (Halocline Trance) and building sets/props (Gazelle Automations).Liz’s most recent work visualizes one of her mother’s anecdotes from a childhood in Soviet-era Moscow, in a 2-minute animated documentary. Website: [**www.lizadler.format.com**](https://lizadler.format.com/) ![](/sites/default/files/inline-images/Ash%20woolf-%20IG.jpg)**Runner-Up:** [**Ash Woolf**](http://www.ashwoolf.ca/) Ash Woolf is a Toronto-based artist and animator enrolled in OCAD University's experimental animation program. They explore their creativity through animation and film, their practice focuses on storytelling.Even dabbling in the more abstract variety. By mixing an abstract element into a more serious mood or setting. Website: [www.ashwoolf.ca ](https://ashwoolf.ca/) Instagram: [@fern.goblin ](https://www.instagram.com/fern.goblin/) 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. 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October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026) Related Stories ## Related Stories [### 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. 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October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026)