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OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Aashna Pujara as the primary, and Amy Noseworthy as the secondary recipient of the Open Studio 2025 Printmaking Residency Career Launchers!
Primary Recipient:
Aashna Pujara is a South-Asian multidisciplinary artist from Hamilton, Ontario, currently studying at OCAD University in Toronto. Their work consists of printmaking and textiles, and often a harmonious collaboration of the two mediums. In their practice, they are currently exploring the concept of home, and metaphors that relate to and beyond the actual structure. Through material research, working with elements from the earth, and active investigation of their memories of living in two different countries, they aim to use natural imagery and textures to convey their thoughts. The work is often process driven, physical materials and intuition lead to experimentation and testing to give their work new forms.
Instagram: @aashnapujara / @shnarrative
Secondary Recipient:
Amy Noseworthy (she/they) is an illustrator, cartoonist, teacher, and researcher whose work explores the intersection of queerness, neurodivergence, autobiography, and radical repair through graphic narrative and the use of analog materials. They explore the mediums of illustration and cartooning in service of communication and community engagement, and are committed to making art for social change, and to artmaking and storytelling as vehicles for personal growth, healing, and fulfillment.
Learn more about our Career Launchers at: https://careerlaunchers.format.com