IAMD Thesis Fundraiser

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 1:00pm to 9:00pm

IAMD Thesis Student fundraiser for their upcoming 2014 thesis exhibiitions

Second-year IAMD students are fundraising for their thesis shows, through the sale of artist multiples, baked goods, and more. Check out silkscreen and risograph prints, silkscreened bandanas, t-shirts, savory scones, and more!

Additional sale dates on March 3 and 6, 2014.

Venue & Address: 
Lobby 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/art-media-design-masters.htm
Email: 
mt12dd@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

IAMD Thesis Fundraiser

Monday, March 3, 2014 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 12:00am

IAMD Thesis Student fundraiser for their thesis exhibitions

Second-year IAMD students are fundraising for their thesis shows, through the sale of artist multiples, baked goods, and more.

Check out silkscreen and risograph prints, silkscreened bandanas, t-shirts, savory scones, and more!

Venue & Address: 
Lobby 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/art-media-design-masters.htm
Email: 
mt12dd@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free

Dreaming of Bear and Crow

Dreaming of Bear and Crow
Monday, March 3, 2014 - 5:00am to Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 4:00am

2014 IAMD Thesis Exhibition by Patrick Francis DeCoste

Reception Friday March 7, 7 - 9 pm

Please join the Interdisciplinary Master’s of Art, Media and Design Program and the Graduate Studies Department in celebrating the IAMD Thesis Exhibition of MFA Candidate Patrick Francis DeCoste.

Throughout spring and summer 2014 graduating candidates from OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design (IAMD) program will present their thesis work in galleries across Toronto. These exhibitions explore a wide variety of interdisciplinary subject matter and media including, drawing & painting, video, performance, ceramics, printmaking, digital technology, sculpture and installation.

Five hundred years ago, a young Mi’kmaw woman dreamed of the coming white man to her shores in Nova Scotia. Through the dream, the artist explores his emerging Métis heritage, with a series of acrylic paintings on vintage taxidermy animal skins. The polar bear, muskox, spirit bear, wolverine, and other studio objects reveal the artist re-telling of this classic first- contact story.

Exhibition Hours: 12:00 - 5:00 PM daily

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Student Gallery 205 Richmond St West Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/art-media-design-masters.htm
Email: 
arowe@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416 977-6000 ext 4366
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

New Neomodernisms: Subjective Strategies in Design Practice

Image of 4 white cylinders
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 5:00am to Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 5:00am

Opening Reception: Friday February 7, 6:30-10:30pm

Closing Reception: Tuesday February 11, 6:30-10:30pm

An Exhibition of Works by Raenel Leppky [IAMD MDes Candidate]

Although experimental, and resultant, a design practice developed through testing and trying has become a reliable, yet unpredictable, methodology to discover new designs. Driven by a subjective inquiry into materials, and through qualitative research, this work arises from a practice of methods, and of making, that leaves room for variation and development.
Centered on designs for the home, 'New Neomodernisms' is a collection of objects and furnishings, crafted using a series of hand-made and machine-assisted processes. This work explores the textures of interior spaces through a selection of natural materials, including ceramics, wood, glass, steel, and natural fibers.
Gallery hours:
Feb 7, 6:30-10:30
Feb. 8 -10, 11:00am-4pm
Feb. 11, 6:30-10:30pm

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Student Gallery 205 Richmond St West Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/art-media-design-masters.htm
Email: 
arowe@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416 977-6000 ext 4366
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

IAMD Thesis Fundraiser

Friday, January 17, 2014 - 4:00pm to 10:00pm

IAMD Thesis Student fundraiser for their thesis exhibitions

Second-year IAMD students are fundraising for their thesis shows, through the sale of artist multiples, baked goods, and more.
Our first sale is this Friday January 17th.
Check out silkscreen and risograph prints, silkscreened bandanas, t-shirts, savory scones, and more!
Future sales February 6 & 7

Venue & Address: 
Lobby 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://mt12dd@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free

Patient Files- exhibition by IAMD alum Andrew Zealley

Image of sticks with the ends painted black
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 6:00am to Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 5:00am

Opening reception January 16, 8 - 11 PM

Exhibition of work by IAMD 2013 alumni Andrew Zealley

exhibition and mobile clinic | january 16 through 26 | wednesday through sunday | noon to 5 pm | opening on full moon January 16 from 8 to 11 pm

Venue & Address: 
Greenbelt Gallery, 77 Florence St., Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.andrewzealley.com/
Cost: 
Free

Assessing the Experiment

Assessing the Experiment
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 4:00am to Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 4:00am

Gallery Hours: June 3 - June 4 from 10:00 am - 2:30 pm,

June 5 Gallery closed,
June 6 - June 8 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm,
Reception: June 2, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

2014 IAMD Thesis Exhibition by Anna Chudnovtseva

Please join the Interdisciplinary Master’s of Art, Media and Design Program and the Graduate Studies Department in celebrating the IAMD Thesis Exhibition of MFA Candidate
Anna Chudnovtseva.

Throughout spring and summer 2014 graduating candidates from OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design (IAMD) program will present their thesis work in galleries across Toronto. These exhibitions explore a wide variety of interdisciplinary subject matter and media including, drawing & painting, video, performance, ceramics, printmaking, digital technology, sculpture and installation.

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Student Gallery 205 Richmond St West Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/art-media-design-masters.htm
Email: 
arowe@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416 977-6000 ext 4366
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

Unarchive

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 5:00am to Sunday, March 30, 2014 - 4:00am

Exhibition of drawing work curated byIAMD Graduate Heather Nicol and including work by OCAD U faculty Ian Carr-Harris
Ian Carr-Harris and Yvonne Lammerich, Dave Dyment,
Lee Henderson, Nina Levitt and Jessica Vallentin
+ including selections from the Givins/Shaw School archival collection, and artworks by children.
Curated by IAMD MFA Graduate Heather Nicol

The echoes of children’s voices have long since faded from the halls and classrooms of 180 Shaw Street. This elegant school building has been repurposed, transforming its identity into the innovative Artscape Youngplace. As the passage of time and human interventions threaten to erase the past, collected and saved relics gain importance as portals to memory, nostalgic yearnings, and the teaching of history. Whether cracking open a box of old photographs, looking through a dusty filing cabinet of letters and documents, or double-clicking a Zip file of compressed digital information, the pleasures and provocations of encountering archival content is a catalytic moment of reorder and reappraisal.
Occupying three floors of spacious hallway, this exhibition features new works by artists who have been granted access to the rich Givins/Shaw School archival collection comprised of records and data, photographs of classes and teams, trophies and plaques, scrap books, press clippings, snapshots and more, unpacked from locked closets and an over-stuffed vitrine. This remarkable treasure trove has inspired and provoked creative responses in sculpture, installation, assemblage, text and photo based works. The exhibition also features historical and pedagogic displays, and works by students at Givins/Shaw Jr. Public School.

Venue & Address: 
Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw Street Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://torontoartscape.org/
Email: 
<p><a href="mailto:liz@torontoartscape.on.ca">liz@torontoartscape.on.ca</a></p>
Phone: 
<p>416-392-1038 x 25</p>
Cost: 
Free

The Ship of Fools Project

The Ship of Fools Project
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

2014 IAMD Thesis Exhibition by Melanie Janisse

Please join the Interdisciplinary Master’s of Art, Media and Design Program and the Graduate Studies Department in celebrating the IAMD Thesis Exhibition of MFA candidate, Melanie Janisse.

Throughout spring and summer 2014 graduating candidates from OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design (IAMD) program will present their thesis work in galleries across Toronto. These exhibitions explore a wide variety of interdisciplinary subject matter and media including, drawing & painting, video, performance, ceramics, printmaking, digital technology, sculpture and installation.

Password at Gate: Ship of Fools

Venue & Address: 
National Yacht Club 1 Stadium Road Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
Email: 
arowe@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ext 4366
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

HEATHER NICOL’S CORDIAL EXHIBITION EXPLORES NOSTALGIA AND HOME

Heather Nicol, Three Butterflies, image provided by Heather Nicol
Heather Nicol at work. Image provided by Heather Nicol
Works from the Cordial exhibition. Image provided by Heather Nicol

“It’s about the fragility of what we think is important, especially when the objects break, or are broken. And in the digital era, there’s still a strong desire for the tactile.” Heather Nicol

Heather Nicol's MFA thesis exhibition, Cordial, held at the OCAD University Student Gallery during Grad Ex reflected on themes of social histories, familiar objects and domestic traditions.

A culmination of two years of study in the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design (IAMD), Cordial rethinks familiar objects and their social relationship to people. A collection of glass stemware filled with colourful liquids toasts togetherness, collaboration and family. Wallpaper samples on plywood panels adorned with unique artifacts and heirlooms — everything from butterflies and old lace to china cups and picture frames — celebrate nostalgia and traditions, while at the same time positioning the objects on display as feminist reclaimations.

During her formal thesis defense on May 2, Nicol described her established career as an artist and curator, the 22 years she spent in New York City, and the shift in both her life and artistic practice that led her back to university to study again and approach her work in a new way. 

“The last ten years of my life have been intensely domestic,” Nicol said. “I moved back to Canada, I’ve been caregiving to children and other people in my life, and discovering the dozens and dozens of invisible gestures that create a home. It’s brought me closer to materials than before.”

Nicol, who experienced the Mad Men style domesticity of the 60s as a child, and later the women’s movement in the 70s as a teenager, observed there’s a sense of ambivalence and fragility in domestic objects. In the slow, labour intensive and passionate process of creating the works in Cordial, she realized this ambivalence remains, even though our gender roles have changed, as has our connection to the material as we move further into the digital realm.

“We want to create a sense of home, and we use objects for their stabilizing effect,” Nicol said. “If you think of the biography of a teacup though, it may be part of a set initially, but over time it’s separated as things get lost or broken. There’s a lifecycle of things and uncertainties involved, and I wanted to play with that.”

Nicol is a President’s Scholar at OCAD U and is well-known in the Toronto arts community for her sculpture and installation using tactile materials like fabric, fur, beads, glass and paper together with theatrical devices including sound and light. In addition to her grad studies at OCAD U, she also holds BFA in Visual Art from the School of Visual Arts and an MA in Arts Education from New York University.

Her goal with her work, including Cordial, is to have a conversation with people from different generations and backgrounds. Her work examines the patterns in our lives, and the social relationship of objects to people.

Learn more

View Cordial at the OCAD U Student Gallery 
52 McCaul Street, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. through May 6

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