## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/) 2. Markdownify 3. Node 4. [Announcing Ellie Nakamura-Corfield as the recipient of the 2026 Vector Festival Career Launchers!](/markdownify/node/4250) February 27, 2026 # Announcing Ellie Nakamura-Corfield as the recipient of the 2026 Vector Festival Career Launchers! ![A number of TVs stacked on top of each other in an exhibition space.](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-11/Vector%20Fest%202025%20up-rezed.jpg.webp?itok=iAfSp8hC) rgb(255,255,255) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce **Ellie Nakamura-Corfield** as the recipient of the **2026 Vector Festival (Festival Assistant)** Career Launchers! ![Headshot of Ellie Nakamura-Corfield](/sites/default/files/2026-02/CL%20Recipients_VectorFestival2026%28square%29_0.png) - **Ellie Nakamura-Corfield** (she/they) is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and community organizer. Her work focuses on themes of labour, hybridity, found family, oral stories, and fables. In her curatorial practice collaboration drives and facilitates the sharing of personal and cultural experiences, and the exchange of stories, creating connections for one and all; creator, audience, and the places they converge. Ellie identifies with their Japanese heritage, queer identity, and working class background but acknowledges and accepts that their identity is always in flux in their work and presents as a unified self, never isolating one aspect of herself. They prioritizes connection and sharing over the final product, and finds pleasure and comfort in repetitive movements and conversations with peers. Ellie has experience as an art technician through Ignite gallery, Onsite gallery, and DIY contract work. They have had numerous experiences with nonprofits such as Vtape, MediaPass Toronto, Steps Creation, and Shoes Off Collective. Ellie has been featured in exhibitions with Gallery 1313, ADA Slaight, and published with Pulse magazine. Ellie has had the pleasure to curate for She Said gallery, Boxcar Social cafe, with global artists in OCAD’s international office, and Arcadia Art gallery. [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/ellie.l.n.c/) ## Other Recent News [### 2026-27 Call for Funding Proposals for Student Groups that Support Creative Entrepreneurship on Campus The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) invites OCAD University student groups with a mandate to support entrepreneurship on campus to apply for funding for student-led initiatives that strengthen and expand the creative entrepreneurship ecosystem at OCAD U. This funding is intended to help student groups create opportunities for entrepreneurship skills development, community building, and revenue-generating activities for students and recent alumni, while reducing barriers to participation for equity-seeking individuals. 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