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Info Session | Long Winter Career Launcher

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Long Winter, Toronto’s all-ages, pay-what-you-can seasonal series of underground and DIY music, visual art, installation, reading, food, and dance (and more) have partnered with the Integrated Media and Digital Painting & Expanded Animation program, and the CEAD to announce the Long Winter Career Launcher. The exciting opportunity to create new work and participate in a dynamic public event is open to upper year students or recent graduates of the Integrated Media, DPXA, and Digital Futures programs. OCAD U students and recent alumni are invited to apply for this paid opportunity by submitting a project proposal for a new, or newly updated, digital video artwork.

More information on the Career Launcher can be found here.

On January 15, an on-campus info-session/submission workshop will be offered by CEAD Staff and Tommy Truong, DPXA alumni and past Long Winter presenting artist. Interested applicants are encouraged to attend this optional session to receive guidance and assistance with their applications.

Venue & Address: 
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, 3rd Floor, 115 McCaul Street, OCAD University
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1454819908017347/

Call for Applications - Long Winter: Digital Video Art Commission

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Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 3:00pm to Sunday, January 19, 2020 - 12:00am

OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION

Long Winter, Toronto’s all-ages, pay-what-you-can seasonal series of underground and DIY music, visual art, installation, reading, food, and dance (and more) have partnered with the Integrated Media and Digital Painting & Expanded Animation program, and the Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers to announce the Long Winter Career Launcher. The exciting opportunity to create new work and participate in a dynamic public event is open to upper year students or recent graduates of the Integrated Media, DPXA, and Digital Futures programs.

OCAD U students and recent alumni are invited to apply for this paid opportunity by submitting a project proposal for a new, or newly updated, digital video artwork. The Long Winter team will provide a lively professional venue and large public audience of 600 - 800 for this commissioned work. The selected work will be featured as a projection in one of two upcoming Long Winter events; held at Workman Arts (Dufferin and Dundas) on Feb. 21 and/or Mar. 21, 2020.

Long Winter’s programming team, along with OCAD U Faculty, will select a winning proposal and The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers will provide a $2,000 production grant/artist fee towards the realization of this outstanding opportunity.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Must be a current student or recent graduate (2018 or 2019) of the OCAD U Integrated Media, DPXA, Digital Futures programs.
  • A priority will be given to applicants with a screen-based practice with a focus on dynamic, moving images, and/or animation.

LOOKING FOR SUPPORT OR INSPIRATION?

  • Interested applicants are encouraged to attend the January 11, 2020 Long Winter event to best inform their proposal.
  • On January 15, 2020 at 2:30pm, an on-campus info-session/submission workshop will be offered by CEAD Staff and Tommy Truong, DPXA alumni and past Long Winter presenting artist. Interested applicants are encouraged to attend to receive guidance and assistance with their applications. This session will be held on Level 3, 115 McCaul St. ​​​​​​​Event Listing
  • If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact Zviko Mhakayakora, at careerdevelopment@ocadu.ca with the subject line “Long Winter Career Launcher

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

  • Full contact information (Name, phone, and email)
  • Current CV listing relevant creative experience
  • A link to your online portfolio. Please provide direct links to relevant past work. Please provide links for recorded portfolio material on a host page (Vimeo, YouTube etc.). Please do not include video files in your application; only links.
  • A project proposal and brief artist statement that contextualizes your overall practice and communicates your interest in the opportunity. Please include a very clear expression of your proposed project.
  • Technical requirements

Please see Typeform application portal for full submission requirements.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

  • Apply via Typeform here

DEADLINE

  • Sunday, January 19, 2020 at midnight (EST)
Venue & Address: 
Workman Arts. 651 Dufferin St, Toronto
Website: 
https://careerlaunchers.format.com/6900953-2020-digital-video-art-commission
Email: 
zmhakayakora@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416 977 6000 Ext. 3707

Michael Madjus | Creative Professional-in-Residence

Michael Madjus I | Creative Professional-in-Residence
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 10:00am to Sunday, April 19, 2020 - 5:00pm

BIO

Michael Madjus has over 10 years of experience in design, marketing, and social media. With a degree in Industrial Design (OCAD University), and having worked with George Brown College, IMM Living, the Children’s Own Museum, and the CN Tower, he helps businesses increase their presence online and IRL in creative ways.

Currently, Michael is working to help advance design culture in Canada as Head of Marketing for DesignTO, Canada's largest cultural celebration of design. Through the Festival, Michael and the DesignTO team turn the City of Toronto into a hub for creativity, making a platform for over 600 artists and designers every January.

designto.org

 

On campus Winter 2020: Fridays 10am – 5pm (starting January 31, 2020)

 

ABOUT THE CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

The OCAD U Creative Professionals-In-Residence program is a mentorship initiative created to support the career success of current OCAD U students and recent alumni. The program sees invited professional guests, from a variety of art and design-related disciplines, present on a regularly scheduled basis over the course of the academic semester, in the new Rosalie Sharp Pavilion for Experiential Learning at 115 McCaul Street.

We invite students to set up a casual chat or studio visit with our residents to talk about their projects, goals and questions. Visiting creative professionals are alumni and collaborators of OCAD University, invited to provide mentorship to current OCAD U students and recent alumni. This winter’s residents are Liz Ikiriko and Michael Madjus

 

BOOK AN APPOINTMENT

Current students and grads can use the OCAD U Talent Network to book appointments with our Creative Professionals-in-Residence. To book an appointment, please follow these four steps:

  • Log in at www.ocadu.ca/talentnetwork
  • Complete your personal and academic profile - you will not be able to book an appointment otherwise
  • Under the "Events & Advising" tab select "Workshops & Advising" and RSVP for a date/timeslot with your resident of choice that fits your schedule. The timeslot you select will no longer be available to others once you choose it.
  • Come to 115 McCaul St, 3rd Floor at the time of your appointment
Venue & Address: 
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, 3rd Floor, 115 McCaul Street, OCAD University

Liz Ikiriko | Creative Professional-in-Residence

Liz Ikiriko I | Creative Professional-in-Residence
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 10:00am

BIO

Liz Ikiriko is an artist, independent curator and photo editor. Her knowledge as a prairie-born researcher, writer, photographer, teacher and mother inform her practice which is focused on contemporary and historic African and diasporic narratives. She is devoted to the creation of experiential, embodied experiences that utilize accessible platforms to share moments of vulnerability and care for all of us on the margins. Her independent curatorial projects include: The Break, The Wake, The Hold, The Breath (Circuit Gallery at Prefix ICA, 2019), An Archive, But Not An Atlas (Critical Distance Centre for Curators, 2019), and upcoming ___a lineage of transgression___(Artspace Peterborough, 2020). Her writing has been published in Public Journal, MICE Magazine, Akimbo and The Ethnic Aisle. She holds an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University (2019).

www.lizikiriko.com

On campus Winter 2020: Wednesdays 10am – 5pm (starting January 22, 2020)

 

ABOUT THE CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

The OCAD U Creative Professionals-In-Residence program is a mentorship initiative created to support the career success of current OCAD U students and recent alumni. The program sees invited professional guests, from a variety of art and design-related disciplines, present on a regularly scheduled basis over the course of the academic semester, in the new Rosalie Sharp Pavilion for Experiential Learning at 115 McCaul Street.

We invite students to set up a casual chat or studio visit with our residents to talk about their projects, goals and questions. Visiting creative professionals are alumni and collaborators of OCAD University, invited to provide mentorship to current OCAD U students and recent alumni. This winter’s residents are Liz Ikiriko and Michael Madjus

 

BOOK AN APPOINTMENT

Current students and grads can use the OCAD U Talent Network to book appointments with our Creative Professionals-in-Residence. To book an appointment, please follow these four steps:

  • Log in at www.ocadu.ca/talentnetwork
  • Complete your personal and academic profile - you will not be able to book an appointment otherwise
  • Under the "Events & Advising" tab select "Workshops & Advising" and RSVP for a date/timeslot with your resident of choice that fits your schedule. The timeslot you select will no longer be available to others once you choose it.
  • Come to 115 McCaul St, 3rd Floor at the time of your appointment
Venue & Address: 
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, 3rd Floor, 115 McCaul Street, OCAD University

Freshbooks Lunch & Learn: Invoicing and Accounting for Creatives

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Friday, January 17, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Freshbooks Lunch & Learn: Invoicing and Accounting for Creatives
Friday, January 17, 2019
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, Level 3, 115 McCaul St.
 

The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers would like to invite you to attend Freshbooks Lunch & Learn: Invoicing and Accounting for Creatives. As part of the OCAD U Commitment, recent OCAD U Alumni (2019) received free access to FreshBooks, an accounting software that makes running your small business easy, fast and secure. Come and learn more about this tool so that you can spend less time on accounting and more time doing the work you love.

Venue & Address: 
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers Level 3, 115 McCaul St, OCAD University

Good w/ Food | Creative Women* Entrepreneurs in Design

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Good w/ Food | Creative Women* Entrepreneurs in Design
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, Level 3, 115 McCaul St.

The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is inviting all students who identify as creative women* entrepreneurs in design to join us for a dinner as part of our Good w/ Food dinner series, which brings together OCAD students, alumni, and broader professional communities over food. The event will encourage participants to engage in conversation and photo documentation throughout the evening to share knowledge and learn from one another. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by replying to Alexandra Hong, ahong@ocadu.ca by Mon. Jan. 13, 2019 and let us know if there are any dietary restrictions or any access needs.

*Our use of the term “women” is inclusive, including cis women, trans women, Two Spirit, genderqueer, gender fluid, and non-binary folks.

Venue & Address: 
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, Level 3, 115 McCaul St.
Email: 
ahong@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
N/A

OCAD Design Students Collaborate on DesignTO's 10 Year Anniversary Look

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Thursday, January 2, 2020 - 12:00am

This year, DesignTO partnered with OCAD University’s Design4 program to create look and feel of the festival’s 10th Anniversary. Working closely with DesignTO and visual communications agency aftermodern.lab, this year’s refreshed look and feel builds on the existing DesignTO aesthetic, but with a fresh point of view. Design4 introduces principles of experiential learning into the realm of paid professional opportunities for Faculty of Design Undergraduate students in their third of fourth year of study, or students at the Master’s level. Three students, Edwina Mui, Minju Roh, and Tanveer Sobnack were selected to participate in this project.  

With a general understanding of the DesignTO identity, the design process began with research, pulling inspiration from the existing DesignTO logo, the city of Toronto, and the work of other artists. After completing their research, the team began brainstorming and mood boarding design ideas and mapping out the purpose of the design.

Learn more about this collaboration at DesignTO’s blog.

DesignTO is Canada’s largest annual celebration of design with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 17–26, 2020.

 

SRSC Student Award for Canadian Colour Research

Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 9:30am to Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 4:00pm

Please see the poster for full contest details. 

Website: 
colourresearch.org
CRSC Student Award Info
Keywords: 

Craft Futures

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 6:00pm to Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 6:00pm

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Craft Futures will connect a group of artists from the Textile Museum of Canada’s Wild exhibition with OCAD University students and recent graduates to participate in one-on-one conversations and on-campus studio visits, offering an platform for direct engagement, relationship building, mentorship and focused conversation.

This two-day event will present opportunities for Carrie Allison, Omar Badrin and Emily Jan to share their practices, highlighting their unique approaches as critically engaged craft practitioners and investing in the next generation of the craft-based artists. A panel discussion moderated by Wild curator Farah Yusuf at the Textile Museum of Canada auditorium (55 Centre Ave.) kicks off the series on January 22. Each artist will have an opportunity to share their work, focusing on their respective uses of craft practices in beadwork, crochet, and felting to challenge thinking about culture, identity, and the environment. In the afternoon of the second day, the artists will be available for one-on-one conversations at the CEAD. In the evening, all three artists will present a free public talk at the OCAD U Rosalie Sharp Pavilion (115 McCaul St.), each sharing their journey as an emerging craft practitioner and how their practice developed during and after art school. They will consider topics such as studio residencies, grants and awards, advanced education, apprenticeships, collaboration, exhibition opportunities and other aspects of their professional practice.

This program is generously supported by the Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts.

Day 1
January 22, 2020
6:00 – 7:30 PM | Panel discusson 
Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Ave
$20; members $15, $10 students
Register: www.textilemuseum.ca/programs/programs/craft-futures

Day 2
January 23, 2020
2:30 – 4:30 PM | One-on-one with artists | Registration required*
5:00 – 6:00 PM | Free Public talk | Open to all
OCAD University Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD), Level 3, 115 McCaul St.
Free
*Registration will open in January 2020 on the OCAD U Talent Network (under "Events & Advising", "Workshops & Advising") . Spots are reserved for current OCAD U students and recent grads (up to 5 years out).

 

ARTISTS

Carrie Allison is an Indigenous mixed-race visual artist born and raised in unceded and unsurrendered Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, BC). Using beadwork, Allison reclaims and reconnects with her maternal Cree and Metis ancestry. Her work recreates and honours elements of her environment and culture, creating spaces to consider intergenerational cultural loss and acts of resilience. Residencies include Eyelevel's Y'Level in collaboration with the Museum of Natural History and NSCAD Community Residency. Allison was also the recipient of the 2018 Centre for Art Tapes Media Arts Scholarship and a 2017 SSH RC Graduate Scholarship.

www.carrie-allison.com/

Omar Badrin is an interdisciplinary artist who explores his identity through crocheting sculptural portraits with fishing twine and flagging tape. Badrin was born in Malaysia, but grew up in Newfoundland where he was a visual minority. The techniques and materials he uses to explore cultural identity refer to traditional crafts of Newfoundland. Badrin has received numerous grants from the Toronto, Ontario, and Canada Arts Councils and was the Medal and President Graduate Award Winner in the OCAD U Interdisciplinary Masters in Art Media and Design program (2015).

www.omarbadrin.com/

Emily Jan uses wool, reed, cloth, silicone and resin to craft hyper-realistic installations inhabited by handmade and found flora and fauna. The craftsmanship and detail in Jan's textile and sculptural installations helps tb inspire audiences to consider their relationship to nature in this age of mass extinctions and climate change. Jan is a 2017 Fiber Art Now Excellence in Fibers Awardee and a 2016 Fiberarts International Triennial People's Choice Award winner, and was an invited artist at the Artscape Gibraltar Point Residency.

www.emilyjan.com

 

ACCESS INFO

115 McCaul St is located at the corner of Dundas St and McCaul St on the southeast side. All levels of the building can be accessed via elevator or stairs. The building is wheelchair accessible. There are electronic height adjustable tables on level 3. There are gendered washrooms on level 3 and gender-neutral private washrooms on levels 1 & 2.

 

Venue & Address: 
Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Ave OCAD U Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, Level 3, 115 McCaul St

Call For Emerging Artist Facilitators | 2020 Chinatown Lantern Installation

Call For Emerging Artist Facilitators 2020 Chinatown Lantern Installation
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 2:00pm

Call For Emerging Artist Facilitators | 2020 Chinatown Lantern Installation
Deadline: Friday, January 3, 2019 at 5pm

Are you currently an OCADU student? Do you have an interest in community engagement and artist facilitation? Does your artistic practice involve mixed media, interdisciplinary sculpture, or site-specific installation?

In partnership with the Chinatown BIA and OCAD University, The STEPS Initiative is seeking emerging artists interested in gaining hands-on facilitation skills and supporting the production of a large-scale community lantern installation, part of Chinatown’s 2020 Chinese New Year celebration.

The selected artist(s) will:

  • Attend a project training session on Thursday, January 9 from 5-7pm.
  • Work closely with the Lead Artist and STEPS team to actively support the facilitation of three (3) intergenerational and family-friendly workshops at which community participants will create lanterns to be incorporated into a lantern installation.
  • Greet participants, creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for co-creation.
  • Lead set-up and clean-up activities at each workshop venue.
  • Assist Lead Artist and STEPS on production and installation activities, as needed.
  • Be available January 4 through February 10, 2020 (including January 11, 18 and 25) to fully-participate in this opportunity.
  • Support outreach for this project, sharing information through individual networks.
  • There are two (2) Emerging Artist Facilitator positions available. Each will receive an honourarium of $500 for their role in this collaborative project at the conclusion of the project.
  • To qualify for this opportunity, all applicants must be current students OCAD University.

Application Instructions:

Interested artists must provide the following no later than Friday, January 3, 2020 at 5pm.

  • Artistic Statement outlining interest in the project, public art, community engagement, and facilitation experience. Please also include any connection that you may have to the Chinatown community in this statement (PDF max 500 words).
  • Artistic CV outlining education, exhibition, related work experience (PDF max 2 pages)
  • 3 Artistic Support Images (max 1024px x 768px) of past work that you feel are most relevant to the opportunity described in this call (JPG format).
  • Please send all applications by email to info@stepsinitiative.com, with subject heading, Last Name, First Name - Emerging Artist Facilitator Application.

 

STEPS will be hosting an info session for this opportunity on Wednesday, December 18th from 2pm-3pm at the OCADU Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers, 115 McCaul Street.

If you are unable to attend the session and have questions related to this call, please reach out to renee@stepsinitiaitive.com prior to Thursday, December 19th and we will be happy to field your inquiries.

We thank all applicants, but only those shortlisted for this opportunity will be contacted.

 

 

 

 

 

Email: 
renee@stepsinitiaitive.com

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