Drawing Out: Art Now

Natalie Majaba Waldburger's art practice engages the complexities of collaboration and institutional critique within anti-colonial research. At OCAD, Natalie teaches in Life Studies and as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Art. As a mixed-race Filipinx/Swiss, Natalie engages with diasporic narratives within the context of environmental responsiveness and bio-material practices.

Cybèle Young is a Canadian artist and author based in Toronto whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, kinetic installation, book arts, animation, film, performance, and participatory projects. Working with Japanese paper for more than thirty years, she creates poetic works that explore transformation, movement, ritual, play, and the animacy of handmade forms.

Sophie Dunkley is a queer Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist pursuing a BFA in Integrated Media at OCAD University. Working across installation, performance, and soft sculpture, their practice explores agency, collaboration, and the interplay between body and technology. Dunkley's work is currently featured in the national touring exhibition Textures of Canada.

TooPink is an interdisciplinary emerging artist based in Toronto. She works with many mediums including film, installation, drawing, paint-ing, performance art, and experimental photography. She is a student at OCADu in the Integrated Media program where she explores mark making and performance as methods to connect and collaborate with audiences.

James Knott is a Toronto-based artist, member of the 7a*11d Toronto Performance Art Collective, and graduate of OCAD University Their practice spans performance, music, and moving images to explore themes of queer and trans identity, and how archetypes of femininity and masculinity can interrogate the politics of desire.

Pixel Heller is a multidisciplinary artist, international performer and the founder of Northern Jumbies Inc. based in Toronto, Canada.
Her work spans performance, photography, textiles, ceramics and painting. Influenced by her Afro-Caribbean heritage, her practice engages with themes of Black identity, cultural preservation and carnival masquerade

Since 2005, his multidisciplinary practice has traced his movement from convention refugee to critical citizen, using abstraction performatively, site-specifically, and relationally, to create projects that challenge the stability of practices of recognition.