## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [News and Stories](/index%2Ephp/news) 3. [Announcing Nancy Correia as the recipient of the 2026 VIBE Arts Program Assistant Career Launcher!](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/4357) April 8, 2026 # Announcing Nancy Correia as the recipient of the 2026 VIBE Arts Program Assistant Career Launcher! ![Group of people posing in front of a mural.](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-02/CL%20Banner-Vibe%20Arts.jpg.webp?itok=qbNN_fM5) ESS Mural Project. Photo by Paul Ohonsi courtesy of VIBE Arts. rgb(255,255,255) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce **Nancy Correia** as the recipient of the [**2026 VIBE Arts Program Assistant Career Launcher**](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/2026-vibe)**!** ![Headshot of the 2026 Vibe Arts Career Launchers recipient.](/sites/default/files/2026-04/2026VibeArtsCL_recipient.png) **Nancy Correia bio:** Nancy Correia is a Brampton-based multidisciplinary artist and community facilitator working in illustration, drawing, painting, ceramic and installation to explore narratives within the Maharashtrian diaspora. Her work surrounds navigating personal identity in conversation with her relationship to the body, nature, and discovering the sacred. She endeavors to share her practice that examines personal and collective identity, navigating her own identity as a person of colour in the West to discover how one transcends liminality to inhabit third spaces. She is devoted to sharing her practice of creating intentional, identity-rooted, and emotionally resonant works, seeking to touch hearts and cultivate love in community. ## 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 ](/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)