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Filipino-Canadian alums among artists being showcased at new exhibition

From Aug. 17 to 20, Pagkakaisa explores community, identity and collective unity at the 2026 Mabuhay Festival.

August 13, 2026

Students, faculty members and alums receive 2026 Craft Awards

Annual selection of recipients applauds dedicated practitioners of craft and design.

August 13, 2026

OCAD U earns STARS gold rating for leadership in sustainability

The University received the rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

August 7, 2026

OCAD U mourns passing of Natalie Piper

The OCAD U alum and former teaching assistant was a cherished member of the Prince Edward County community.

July 23, 2026

SFI students receive prestigious international awards

OCAD U students earned top honours and special nominations in the Association of Professional Futurists’ 2026 Student Recognition program, with award-winning projects showcasing excellence in strategic foresight and digital futures.

July 22, 2026

SSHRC funds studies of cultural censorship, and grief and nostalgia through craft

One project maps patterns of cultural censorship during the Nazi era while a second is developing a theory of grief and nostalgia through embodied material practices.

July 21, 2026

Events and exhibitions happening at OCAD U

April Hickox: Vantage Point-Passing

May 1, 2026 12 a.m. - August 31, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Over the last three decades of her life, April Hickox (b. 1955, d. 2025) documented the groyne—a slab of concrete extending perpendicular to the shoreline of Lake Ontario.

Exhibition

Queerious Futurities poster with artist performance

QUEERIOUS FUTURITIES: Transcultural Belongings in the Darkness

June 28, 2026 12 a.m. - August 31, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Online-Only

Works by 14 Makers from the course “Imagining Queer Asian Futurities”

Exhibition

Welcome Day on McCaul St with people visiting booths and the Sharp Centre in the background.

Welcome Day - Fall 2026 Orientation

September 8, 2026 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)

All new students are invited to join us for Welcome Day!

Event

Person standing in a forest with a bright red piece of fabric trailing behind them

Skennen'kó:wa ken? Do you carry great peace?

September 5, 2026 12 a.m. - November 15, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Off Campus

Canada Pavilion at the Lee KangHa Art Museum as part of the Gwangju Biennale September 5 to November 15, 2026

Exhibition

Artist: Rebecca Baird, Designers: Kenny Alvin Baird, Mike Mansor, North Star (Woodbine Casino), 2022, stainless steel, aluminum and custom powder, 15x15x2 feet. Fabrication by Eventscape Inc. Photo by Luca Dichio.

Returning to Ourselves: Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird—A Retrospective of Art and Design by Cree Métis Siblings

September 2, 2026 12 a.m. - January 30, 2027 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Returning to Ourselves presents over forty years of transformative work by Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird.

Exhibition

Michael Massie, “pop” art in suspension, 2025, aluminum, wood, copper, string/gut. Image courtesy of Fehely Fine Arts, photo by Renzo Fernandez.

Michael Massie: now and then

September 2, 2026 12 a.m. - January 30, 2027 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Celebrated Inuk artist Michael Massie is internationally recognized for his skill as a silversmith and sculptor, as well as for his keen design sensibility.

Exhibition

A human face, with starkly defined nose and lips, emerges alongside expansive phoenix-like wings through drifting smoke and ash. The composition blends dark, heavy textures with warm, glowing tones, evoking a sense of release, transformation, and renewal.

"beginning, breaking & becoming" by Ashlynn Doljac

July 8, 2026 12 a.m. - June 30, 2027 11:59 p.m.

113Research Project Gallery

Exhibition features work by multidisciplinary artist and OCAD U graduate Ashlynn Doljac that demonstrate Doljac's inquiries as an artist and researcher into intergenerational trauma.

Event