Opportunity to Display Your Art

Open call for artwork to be displayed in the Great Hall during the 2017 Manning Innovation Symposium, Submission Deadline: November 10 at 11:59pm

Call for Submissions: ZINE POWER, the OCAD U Zine Library 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition

The OCAD U Zine Library is celebrating our 10-year anniversary on November 14th and we are planning an exhibition that celebrates the amazing power of zines! We are looking for zines, original pages, cover art, sketches, and all things that go into the making of a zine.

Call for Submissions: ZINE POWER, the OCAD U Zine Library 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition

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Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 11:45am to Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 11:45pm

The OCAD U Zine Library is celebrating our 10-year anniversary on November 14th and we are planning an exhibition that celebrates the amazing power of zines! We are looking for zines, original pages, cover art, sketches, and all things that go into the making of a zine.

The exhibition will run from November 6 – December 3 at the Learning Zone, home of the OCAD U Zine Library. We will be celebrating the exhibition and the anniversary at a reception on November 14th, from 5-8pm.

Please email ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com with 2-3 images of your work by Sunday, October 22, 2017. We are particularly interested in zinesters whose work is featured in our collection.

The OCAD U Zine Library was launched on November 14, 2007 by former OCAD U student and artist Alicia Nauta. Since Alicia’s graduation, OCAD U Library staff have continued to maintain and grow the collection. Over 2000 zines in our collection have been catalogued and are available to search and browse on our online catalogue, launched in the Spring of 2017. 

The exhibition is open to the entire OCAD U community as well as to local zinesters. All materials for the exhibition will need to be dropped off and picked up in person, as we will not be able to return any materials by mail.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Zine Library Learning Zone Gallery 113 McCaul Street, Level 1 Also accessible from 122 St. Patrick Street
Website: 
http://ocad.libguides.com/zinelibrary
Email: 
ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x2529
Cost: 
Free
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Call for Vendors: OCAD U Poster Fair

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Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 11:00am to Friday, October 20, 2017 - 9:00pm

The OCAD U Zine Library presents the 2nd OCAD U Poster Fair on October 26th, 11am-6pm. We are currently looking for student vendors to sell screenprinted, risographed, letterpress, handmade or digitally printed posters of their original art and design. 

We will be accepting applications from current OCAD U students until October 12th (please contact us through your student email!). Registration will be open to alumni and local artists & designers after that date. Tables are free. 

To apply as a vendor, please email ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com with your name, contact information and 2-3 images of the work you intend to sell at the event.

Venue & Address: 
100 McCaul Street, Lobby Toronto, ON
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/281928562310058
Email: 
ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com
Cost: 
Free
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Ignite Gallery: Call for Submissions deadline reminder - June 30

Ignite Gallery (formally known as Student Gallery) is an exhibition venue funded by OCAD University located in the heart of Kensington Market at 165 Augusta Avenue. The gallery is accepting submissions from OCAD U students and recent grads for the 2017/2018 academic year. Apply by June 30, 2017.

Call for Submissions for the Images Research Forum

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 10:00am

IMAGES festival has just launched the Call for Submissions for the Images Research Forum that will take place during our 30th edition running from April 21-27. We are inviting undergraduate and graduate students (and those graduated in the last two years) to submit. 

The Images Research Forum is a great opportunity for students to engage in conversations that support critical thinking and dialogue in contemporary moving images culture. There is no

registration fee and those selected will have an opportunity to present a 15 - 20 minute presentation at the festival and receive a festival pass. 

Please see attached for more details on how to submit, the deadline is February 15, 2017.

For more information:  Dorica Manuel, Programming Assistant
The Images Festival
309-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 Canada
+1(416) 971 8405 telephone

30th Edition!!
20-27 April 2017
http://www.imagesfestival.com

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Venue & Address: 
The Images Festival 309-401 Richmond Street West Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Website: 
http://www.imagesfestival.com
Phone: 
(416) 971 8405

Call for Student Workshop Leaders: Creative Art & Design Workshops

Monday, January 30, 2017 - 9:00am to Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 11:00pm

If you KNOW something, TEACH something!

The OCAD U Student body is filled with people with amazing skills and knowledge! We’re looking for current OCAD U students interested in sharing their skills by leading a creative art or design workshop for fellow students.

Apply to facilitate a workshop on: 

  • A studio technique, method or approach 
  • A piece of software that you find particularly useful  
  • Another skill essential to your art or design practice

Selected facilitators will earn an honorarium of $100, as well as a budget for materials (up to $40). Workshops should be around 2 hours long and include a hands-on component, so that attendees can get a chance to experience and practice new skills. Workshops will be held in the Learning Zone at 113 McCaul Street in February and March, and will be open to all students at OCAD U. 

 

Application process: 

Please submit a completed copy of the workshop proposal to Marta at mchudolinska@ocadu.ca by February 12, 2017. Download the Proposal template for Learning Zone Workshops file attachement at the bottom of this page. 

 

This workshop series is supported by funding from the First Generation program, administered by the OCAD U Writing & Learning Centre.

Venue & Address: 
Learning Zone 113 McCaul Street, Level 1
Email: 
mchudolinska@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ext. 2529
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Call for Entries. Black History Month Exhibition

Sunday, January 8, 2017 - 5:00am

Call for Entries. Black History Month Exhibition.

This exhibition will be held at OCAD University during the month of February to create space for the celebration of the multifarious meanings of being Black in Canada at OCAD University in 2017.  The submission criteria is inclusive to all art forms. We’re looking to showcase a diverse body of work from Black students at OCADU and in Toronto. 

Suggested Themes: Intersectional Identity, Black Speculative Criticism, Blackness in Canada, Education and Employment, Black Designers/Artists Lens’, Afrocentrism, Technology, Blackness in Spaces, Digital Futures, Queerness

 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Up to 3 hi-res JPEGs, first and last name in file extension
  • For new work provide 2-3 references with a 250 word proposal as PDF

All submissions to be sent to: bit.ly/BLXCK

DEADLINE: January 8, 2017

Accepted applicants will be notified: January 13, 2017

Final work will need to be in by January 20, 2017

Email ocadu.bsa@gmail.com

Facebook: Black Creator’s Month

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University
Email: 
ocadu.bsa@gmail.com
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Applications are open now for Murmur Land Studios 2017 events

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 5:00am

Murmur Land Studios is an experimental school initiative offering event-based pedagogy in art, philosophy, movement, ecology and community for the post-anthropocene era. Our attempt is to curate spaces of creative inquiry which attract diverse makers, thinkers and doers together around thematic concerns relevant to the challenging times which lay before us. We are interested in exploring the varied human and more-than-human relations that weave and co-compose new possibilities for joy and survival.

Sean Smith is one of the three founding members of the Murmur Land Studios curatorial collective launching this program.  Sean teaches both Wearable Art and Site and Intervention in the First-Year Program in the Faculty of Art. He brings his art teaching experience at OCADU and PhD in Media Philosophy to his role as faculty of the MLS field schools.

Applications are open now for our 2017 events: "The City in Reverse: Diagramming Intelligent Systems" (July - Sherbrooke, NS) and "Wander Lines: Mythodological Escapism" (August - Saysutshun/Newcastle Island, BC). Deadline is December 15.

More information is available at: www.murmurlandstudios.net.

 

Venue & Address: 
Sherbrooke, NS & Saysutshun/Newcastle Island, BC
Website: 
http://www.murmurlandstudios.net.

Call for Submissions: Scarborough Arts 31st Annual Juried Exhibition & Big Book Art

Monday, December 5, 2016 - 11:00pm

Call for Submissions to OCAD students: Scarborough Arts 31st Annual Juried Exhibition & Big Book Art.

31st Annual Juried Exhibition & BIG ART BOOK. This year's theme is Spectacular Celebrations and for the first-time ever, this call is open to visual and literary artists across Canada. The theme asks artists to question, reflect, or engage critically with the spectacle of celebration. The jury is comprised of professional curators and artists, and will look for works that: highlight moments of personal celebration or local community commemoration, reflect on a national celebration related to your own country of origin, or engage with the diverse forms of expressions elicited by spectacle and celebration.

Successful submissions will get published in the BIG ART BOOK (published online and in print) and will be exhibited at the Annual Juried Exhibition at the Papermill Gallery in Toronto. Outstanding submissions selected as Jurors' Choice award winners and will receive cash prizes of up to $2,000.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 5, 2016. More information about the Annual Juried Exhibition and BIG ART BOOK is available on our website. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with big@scarborougharts.com.

 

Venue & Address: 
Scarborough Arts 1859 Kingston Road Scarborough, ON M1N 1T3
Website: 
http://www.scarborougharts.com
Email: 
big@scarborougharts.com
Phone: 
416-698-7322, (RACHEL FENDER, Operations & Events Coordinator)
Call for Submissions to OCAD students: Scarborough Arts 31st Annual Juried Exhibition & Big Book Art.

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