Events

Come celebrate with the Digital Futures graduate students! 

Get set for GRADEX 111!

Panelists discuss how their creative work re-constructs histories, rebuilds legacies, and re-imagines Afro/Black/Indigenous futures.

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

A screening of the award-winning documentary film.

Onsite Gallery invites Becoming (in the light of the miracle) artists, Alex McLeod, Camille Jodoin-Eng and Zev Farber to share not only their professional pathways, but also the creative and personal journeys that have shaped who they are.

Join us for fascinating research talks with Faculty of Arts and Science faculty members Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Kelsey Pugh & Anna Stielau!

Join us for a fascinating talk with artist and curator Jaimie Isaac!

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Guest Speaker Dr. William Paris: The Antinomies of Emancipation in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom.

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

OCAD U Drawing and Painting Thesis Art Benefit

This session explores the many ways creative professionals build sustainable income streams. Students will hear diverse approaches to creative entrepreneurship, including income streams, facilitation, freelancing and financial decision-making.

We invite you to reflect on how you generate income today, how that has evolved, and what lessons you wish you had known earlier in your career.

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Join us for fascinating Research Talks with Faculty of Arts and Science faculty, Ian Clarke, Angus Mok, and Ashar Mobeen!

Join us for fascinating talk with curator Claire Shea!

Guest Speaker Dr. Delaney Glass on The Sawa Project (Now: March 9)

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Book Launch:

The Cat, the Clock and the Rock: Eighteen Fables

An idea for a book by Ryan Gander

A Hybrid Event: Sabbatical Presentations by Two Faculty Members.

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

A year-long research project that explores the practices of established Canadian artists through three in-depth interviews, led by upper-year OCAD U students. The project creates a safe space for students, established artists, and cultural advocates to ask questions and share knowledge.

Join us for the March edition of Research Talks, featuring Suzanne Stein. In this talk - Evolving Foresight: Designing Futures of Care, Creativity, and Civic Imagination - Professor Stein talks about rapidly shifting foresight scholarship and practice —and how OCAD U researchers are helping drive this evolution.

Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 

Tricon is visiting the CEAD to introduce its Social Media Summer Internship! 

Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 

Onsite Gallery presents its inaugural Black History Month annual guest lecture with curator, Andrea Fatona