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[Announcing the recipients of the 2025 401 Richmond Illustration Studio, Dalglish Family Foundation Career Launcher Award!](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3372) May 26, 2025 # Announcing the recipients of the 2025 401 Richmond Illustration Studio, Dalglish Family Foundation Career Launcher Award! ![401 Richmond studio space](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-05/401%20Richmond-CL%20Banner.png.webp?itok=-sRHMz3F) rgb(255,255,255) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce **Brunna Fanticelli, Ezra Humphreys, James Rose** and **Shamika Pierre** as the recipients of the 2025 401 Richmond Illustration Studio, Dalglish Family Foundation Career Launcher Award! ![2025 401 Richmond Career Launchers recipients.](/sites/default/files/2025-05/401Richmond_2025CL%20Recipients.jpg) **Brunna Fanticelli:** [Brunna Fanticelli](https://brunnafanticelli.format.com/) is a Toronto-based illustrator currently pursuing a BDes in Illustration from OCAD U. Her artistic practice centers around organic ink linework, exploring the power of pattern and repetition. Through her illustrations, Fanticelli delves into the intricate nuances of memory and change, employing dark and evocative imagery to capture their complexities. [Website](https://brunnafanticelli.format.com/) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brubni/) **Ezra Humphreys:** [Ezra Humphreys](https://portfolio-ezramire.format.com/) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Their work is attentive to narratives about coming-of-age, relationships, and what grows in the ill-defined liminal areas of life. They enjoy messy, textured paintings and a good ghost story. [Website](https://portfolio-ezramire.format.com/) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ezramired/) **James Rose:** [James Rose](https://jamescao.format.com) is an analog and digital artist with a passion for the macabre, queer, cute, and kitsch. His work draws from experiences, his environment, and the creation of fellow artists. They enjoy working with images from popular culture, body modification, music, and religion. In taking inspiration from the natural world to fiction and horror, he hopes to convey beauty within the grotesque and aberrations in the beautiful. [Website](https://jamescao.format.com) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jamesrosenc/) **Shamika Pierre:** My name is [Shamika Pierre](https://shamikapierre.format.com)[.](https://shamikapierre.format.com) I am an emerging artist based in Toronto. I focus a lot on the experience of my community, using the beauty and richness of ink and watercolour to let the stories unfold. I love experimenting and challenging myself with difficult ideas and craft them into my own perspective. [Website](https://shamikapierre.format.com) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shamiecat/) This award is generously supported by the **Dalglish Family Foundation**, whose commitment to emerging artists and designers makes this opportunity possible. --- 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) [### Call for Vendors: BAM! 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