## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [News and Stories](/index%2Ephp/news) 3. [First Self-Portrait DRPT Student Group Exhibition](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3743) September 21, 2025 # First Self-Portrait DRPT Student Group Exhibition ![Curly hair, black/brown woman portrait with a flower in hand](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-09/Cassandra%20Cunningham_I%20have%20a%20lot%20of%20memorys__Cassandra%20Cunningham.jpg.webp?itok=yzFoA0cU) *Banner Image: I have a lot of memorys, 24x36”, Oil paint on Wood panel, Cassandra Cunningham The First Self-Portrait DRPT Student Group Exhibition showcases the impressive variety, talent, and insight of OCAD U's first-year Drawing and Painting students from the Fall 2024 cohort. The works displayed—a Painting 2 final assignment centred around student lived experience—are the result of a year of intensive conceptual, technical, and personal growth. The exhibition empowers returning students with a reminder of what they accomplished in their first year and motivates new students by showing them what they are working towards. > ***Now to September 19, 2025*** > > **Drawing and Painting Hallways** Exhibition supervisor: Amanda Boulos Shout out to Sonia Esmaeillou and Quinn Holly for assisting the installation ![Colourful semi abstract portrait](/sites/default/files/2025-09/L.M.%20Hall%2C%20The%20Idiot%20and%20His%20Retinue%2C%20A%20Self-_Li%20MacCharles-Hall.jpeg) \*Image: *The Idiot and His Retinue, A Self-Portrait.,* 48x60”, Oil paint and Oil sticks on Canvas, L.M. Hall ## 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! Holiday Art Market 2026 OCAD University's RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to partner again with Wychwood Barns to offer a curated group of OCAD U students and recent alumni the opportunity to share a vendor table at the BAM! Holiday Art Market. October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026) [### 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) Related Stories ## Related Stories [### 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 ](/index%2Ephp/news/call-project-participants-our-points-view-encounters-artists) [### OCAD U students gain hands-on experience in large-scale immersive art projections Students gained experience in animation, visual storytelling and projection mapping through their involvement in projections being shown during SILO NIGHTS at Public Pier. September 22, 2026 ](/news/ocad-u-students-gain-hands-experience-large-scale-immersive-art-projections) [### Call for Events, Exhibitions & Project Assistant On-campus job opportunity: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/mAgM0W3PVh September 18, 2026 ](/news/call-events-exhibitions-project-assistant)