Events

Orange Shirt Pin Sale
September 23, 2025 - September 26, 2025
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
Orange shirt pins beaded by OCAD U students, staff, faculty, and alumni will be for sale to raise funds for the Survivors' Secretariat, as part of National Day for Truth & Reconciliation.  
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
Orange Shirt Day pins resting on an Orange Shirt Day toque
2025 Summer Institute Group Exhibition
September 24, 2025 - October 5, 2025
Ada Slaight Student Gallery
A Group Exhibition shows faculty research and practice from the 2025 Summer Institute.
Thesis Exhibition
  • Public
7 faculty artists' work with exhibition info
Creating your Archive: A Presentation and Workshop with Raegan Swanson
September 24, 2025
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Onsite Gallery (RHD)
Join us for Creating your Archive, a special presentation and workshop led by Raegan Swanson, Executive Director of The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ+ Archives.
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
A woman with long blond hair wearing a black and white blouse
Faculty of Art - Critique Club
September 26, 2025
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
A Faculty of Art student-oriented regular critique meeting. 
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  • Public
  • Undergraduate Student
Critique Club participants in prep
Sustainable Makers Market
September 27, 2025 - September 28, 2025
12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Off Campus
Presented by OCAD University at the Water/Fall Festival.
Event
  • Public
Sustainable Market
OCAD University Senate Meeting
September 29, 2025
3:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
OCAD University Senate Meeting
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  • Public
OCAD University's Sharp Centre for Design, with a graphic black and white facade suspended over primary colour support legs
STUDENT WORKSHOP LED BY HUDA SMITSHUIJZEN ABIFARÈS
September 29, 2025
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
A student workshop and class. 
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Undergraduate Student
A picture of 100 McCaul Street building, looking up.
DesignMeets is Back!
September 29, 2025
6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
115 McCaul
Design can save us from ourselves! Revisiting the ideas of visionary Marshall McLuhan; what they mean and how we can use them as proactive agents of cultural change. September 29, 6:30 –10:00 pm An inspiring DesignMeets event where we’ll dig into the concept of how design can save us from ourselves in a world increasingly shaped by technology. This event, co-hosted with the vibrant DesignMeets organization in Toronto explores the core idea that designers, as “antennae…
Talk
  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Undergraduate Student
MSU
Art & Design Graduate School Fair - Expert Panels
October 1, 2025
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Rosalie Sharp Pavillion (MCD)
Have questions about grad school? Join us on October 1st for our Expert Panel series to hear directly from university representatives and learn more about graduate school admission process and building a strong application!
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  • Alumni
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Undergraduate Student
White background with teal staircase graphics and Art & Design Grad School Fair Logo.
2025 Art & Design Graduate School Fair
October 2, 2025
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
The Great Hall
Are you considering graduate-level studies? Join us on October 2nd for the annual Art & Design Graduate School Fair at OCAD University to meet with representatives from top art & design universities, including OCAD University, to learn more about MFA, MDes, MA, and PhD programs throughout Canada or internationally.
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  • Alumni
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Undergraduate Student
Black background with teal staircase graphics and Art & Design Grad School Fair Logo.
Celebration of Life: Remembering April Hickox
October 3, 2025
3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
Members of the OCAD University community are invited to attend a Celebration of Life to remember April Hickox, a beloved faculty member who passed away on Aug. 15, 2025. 
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
April Hickox
I Searched Many Worlds: In Conversation with Rosalie Favell
October 4, 2025
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Onsite Gallery (RHD)
Join us for an in-depth conversation between artist Rosalie Favell, art historian Michelle McGeough, and Ryan Rice, Executive Director and Curator, Indigenous Art at Onsite Gallery.
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
A woman wearing long robes in red and purple with large head dress