Michelle Forsyth to participate in a Panel Discussion: Creating with Parkinson’s

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Saturday, April 9, 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Michelle Forsyth will be speaking along with her neurologist, Dr. Alfonso Fosano (Toronto Western Hospital), and TBA about how Parkindon's impacts creativity.

Michelle Forsyth recently underwent deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s disease. She will discuss Parkinson’s and sensuality, specifically focusing on her recent work. Forsyth teaches painting at OCAD University.

Alfonso Fasano will discuss Parkinson’s disease as a window into the neurobiology of creativity. Dr. Alfonso Fasano, MD, PhD is Associate Professor, University of Toronto, as well as the Director of the surgical program for movement disorders Movement Disorders Centre at Toronto Western Hospital

In Partnership with the Parkinson Society of Southwestern Ontario

Venue & Address: 
THE WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY
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Certified: Exhibition in Continuing Studies at OCADU

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Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 10:30pm to Friday, March 11, 2016 - 10:00pm

An exhibition featuring artists who have completed a Continuing Studies certificate at OCAD University.

The Office of Continuing Studies offers six certificates that provide formal recognition of completed qualifying courses. Students must complete five courses within three years to qualify for the certificates to qualify for the Digital Media Skills Certificate, Art and Design Studio Skills Certificate, Photography Studio Skills Certificate, Web Design and Development Skills Certificate, Theory and Criticism in Art and Design Certificate, or the Certificate in Business Skills for Creative Professionals.

Works in the exhibition include Paintings, Drawings, Photography, Digital Design, and Video.

Open Mon- Fri, 9am-5pm

Reception: Thursday, February 4th, 5:30 - 7pm

Venue & Address: 
Office of Continuing Studies @ OCAD University 285 Dundas Street West
Website: 
http://ocadu.ca/continuingstudies
Email: 
continuingstudies@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416 977 6000 x 2321
Cost: 
Free

RYAN GANDER: Auto-Abstraction And Happenstance In Art Making

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Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 11:00pm to Friday, February 26, 2016 - 1:00am

NOMADIC RESIDENT STUDENT PROJECT EXHIBITION
Opening Reception: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016, 6 – 8 P.M.
**Artist in attendance
ADA SLAIGHT GALLERY
OCAD UNIVERSITY, 100 MCCAUL STREET – 2nd floor

During the residency, Ryan will be working on a collaborative project with students exploring the idea of enforcing a methodology to art making ‘Auto-Abstraction And Happenstance In Art Making’ is about finding systems and devices that exist in the everyday world that create art through happenstance.

About Ryan Gander – Ryan Gander’s complex and unfettered conceptual practice is stimulated by queries, investigations or what-ifs, rather than strict rules or limits. For example, what if a child’s den of sheets were remade in memorialising marble (Tell My Mother not to Worry (ii), 2012)? What if all the pieces in a chess set were remade in Zebra Wood, so that neither side was entirely black nor white (Bauhaus Revisited, 2003)? Gander is a cultural magpie in the widest sense, polymathically taking popular notions apart only to rebuild them in new ways – perhaps by refilming the same ten-second clip 50 times over, as in Man on a Bridge (A study of David Lange), 2008. Language and storytelling play an overarching role in his work, not least in his series of Loose Association lectures or in his attempt to slip a nonsensical, palindromic new word, ‘mitim’, into the English language. Born in Chester in 1976, Ryan lives and works in London. Ryan Gander is represented by Lisson Gallery, London.

http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/ryan-gander/

About Nomadic Residents – International Residencies at OCAD University
The Nomadic Residents program was launched in 2006. Residents include Rirkrit Tiravanija (2006) Ann Hamilton (2007), ORLAN (2008), Hal Foster (2009), Adel Abdessemed (2010), Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh (2012), Candice Breitz (2013) and Pedro Reyes (2014). The series continues with the generous support of the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.

Nomadic Residents aims to inspire and influence the OCAD University community and the public by featuring artists and thinkers from around the world whose work questions issues such as travel, mobility, displacement, dislocation, and homelessness, as well as the speed or instability of modern life. In bringing these innovative and diverse individuals to take up temporary residence at OCAD U, Nomadic Residents joins here to there, the local to the global and the provisional and the permanent.

For more information please contact:

Derek Liddington
Coordinator, Impact Exchange
Centre For Emerging Artists and Designers 
Sessional Faculty
Faculty of Art
416.977.6000 x3844
dliddington@ocadu.ca  

 

Christine Crosbie
Media Relations Officer, OCAD University

416-977-6000 Ext. 4849 Cell 647-473-7778
ccrosbie@ocadu.ca

 

 

Venue & Address: 
ADA SLAIGHT GALLERY OCAD UNIVERSITY, 100 MCCAUL STREET – 2nd floor

ONSITE/INSIGHT/INCITE: Reinventing Public Galleries to Affect Change

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Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Onsite Gallery is pleased to present a panel discussion and workshop: ONSITE/INSIGHT/INCITE: Reinventing Public Galleries to Affect Change.

To thrive, people need to see themselves reflected in the culture that surrounds them. There are many, many powerful works of art, design and media that don’t get to shine. Why are public art institutions not valuing and exhibiting creators that reflect their location’s demographic diversity? If public galleries reflect their populations how would their cities and towns change?

Speakers:
Andrea Fatona, Elisha Lim, Irene Loughlin

Moderator:
Lisa Deanne Smith

This panel discussion and workshop, along with many other inspiring events, is part of the OCAD U Student Union's ART + DESIGN SOCIAL JUSTICE EXCHANGE. Click here for full information on the event and to register your attendance: https://www.facebook.com/events/211602899177784/

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University 100 McCaul Street Room 554
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/events/1550184795305414/
Email: 
lcolumbus@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000, Ext. 456
Cost: 
FREE
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FOLAS Reading Series Presents: Carolyn Smart with Special Guest Bänoo Zan

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 1:00am to 3:00am

On Tuesday January 19 at 8pm, please join us as we welcome Carolyn Smart, who will kick off our series with poetry from her recent collection "Careen" (Brick), a brilliant telling of the story of Bonnie and Clyde from each character's own perspective.

About Carolyn:
Carolyn Smart has written seven collections of poetry including "Careen," "Hooked," and "The Way to Come Home." She is the founder of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, poetry editor for McGill-Queen’s Press, and since 1989 has taught Creative Writing at Queen's University.

About "Careen":
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are the stuff of legend – why tell their story again? Chances are you don’t know the nuances – their love story and that of their accomplices Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche; their aspirations, conflicts and prayerful natures; and ultimately the sources of their tragedy. At its core, Careen is a long poem spoken by the characters, though the voices are companioned by newspaper articles often ironically at odds with the inside story. Smart lets the principal actors relate their own tale—a book of voices speaking out of the desperate Dirty Thirties.

With Special Guest, writer, translator, teacher, editor and poetry organizer, Bänoo Zan.

About Bänoo:
Bänoo landed in Canada in 2010. She has been writing poetry since the age of ten and has published more than 120 poems, translations, biographies, and articles in print and online publications around the globe. Her book, "The Song of Phoenix: Life and Works of Sylvia Plath," was reprinted in Iran in 2010. Two collections of her poems are to be released in 2016 by Guernica Editions and Piquant Press. She is the founder, an organizer and host of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), the most diverse poetry reading and open mic series in Toronto. Since November 2012, the series has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together artists from different ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, poetic styles, voices and visions.

Also featuring a surprise guest appearance from the spoken word hip hop dimension.

Questions can be directed to Michelle Miller at michellemiller@faculty.ocadu.ca

All welcome! Accessible venue!

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University, 100 McCaul St, Toronto. Room 187
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/events/885008644928600/
Cost: 
Free

Tables, Chairs & Other Unrelated Objects

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Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 12:00am to 3:00am

Exhibition: January 13-31, 2016
Reception: Friday January 22, 2016 (7-10pm)

For those of us who make furniture it is not always the object alone, that we pursue. As students within the furniture program at OCAD University, we are encouraged to explore and develop our thinking around the role of furniture -- as a medium for personal expression, as a reflection of social and cultural norms, and as an influence upon human behaviour. This exhibition presents a brief glimpse into to that discussion.

Curated by Alisa Maria Wronski and Claire Hamilton

The exhibition is proudly sponsored by Keilhauer and the Artworkers Retirement Society

We’re thrilled to be presenting this exhibition as a part of Toronto Design Offsite:
http://todesignoffsite.com/event/tables-chairs-other-unrelated-objects-5-2/

Venue & Address: 
52 McCaul Student Gallery
Website: 
http://todesignoffsite.com/event/tables-chairs-other-unrelated-objects-5-2/
Email: 
mmavis@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000-262
Cost: 
Free
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Black Future Month art exhibition returns to OCAD University

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Friday, January 8, 2016 - 5:00am

We are excited to inform you that the Black Future Month art exhibition will be returning to OCAD University for 2016 as part of the Black History Month Program at OCADU.

The 4th Annual BLACK FUTURE MONTH 3016 Art Exhibition will be spread across campus between the Ada Slaight Gallery Space (Transit Space) in 100 McCaul, the Open Gallery Space in 49 McCaul St. and the Graduate Gallery at 205 Richmond st. The Exhibit will consist of OCAD U students, alumni, staff and Faculty along with select artists from the Black Community.

EXHIBIT INFO:
The 4th Annual BLACK FUTURE MONTH 3016 Art Exhibition is a professional curated platform that was created in 2012 by OCADU alumna Danilo McCallum. Now in its 4th edition of the exhibit, it is dedicated to showing work of artists who identify as being of African decent to explore the infinite expressions of Afrofuturism, Black speculative fiction, Afro-Surrealism and other expansive themes like Black identity, culture and existence in the future, real or imagined.

Submission Deadline: January 8th, 2016

Submission guidelines are the following:
• Contact Info and area of study
• Brief reason of interest (300 words or less)
• Brief Artist statement or Short proposal (150 words or less) including specification on work dimensions and any installation specification
• Digital Images – Jpeg Format less than 5mb, Audio – Mp3, Video – Still image + online link
All mediums will be accepted
But space is limited.

Send Submissions to Blackfuture3015@gmail.com
Installation begins February 1st and exhibit will run to March.
Selected artists will be notified within a weeks of the application

For more information visit: www.blackfuturemonth.com

Website: 
http://www.blackfuturemonth.com
Email: 
Blackfuture3015@gmail.com
Phone: 
We are excited to inform you that the Black Future Month art exhibition will be returning to OCAD University for 2016 a part of the Black History Month Program at OCADU.
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Permission is a Design Material

Allan Chochinov
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Allan Chochinov
Partner, Core77
Chair, SVA MFA Products of Design
Allan Chochinov is the Chair of the multi-disciplinary MFA in Products of Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Prior to this work, Allan’s practice in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, working on projects for clients from Johnson & Johnson to Federal Express. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and speaks, moderates, and teaches around the world at venues from the Aspen Design Conference to the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio.

Permission Is A Design Material.
Historically, the “materials of design” have been refracted through the narrow lenses of form, function, and, well, materiality. But what are the contemporary materials of design, or more urgently, what are contemporary ways of looking at those materials? From complexity and information as design materials, to permission, participation, and subversion as design materials, this talk will present a rich palette of new design paint—resonant with power and urgency—giving designers a fresh set of tools with which to see and address today’s complex design challenges.

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond Street West Room 510
Cost: 
Free - Space is Limited
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40, i nuovi 20 - forties are the new twenties

Monday, November 23, 2015 - 2:00pm to Monday, November 30, 2015 - 2:00am

40, i nuovi 20 - forties are the new twenties  is an exhibition that celebrates the milestone 40th year of OCAD University's Florence Off-campus Studies Program. Students from the 40th year of this one-of-a-kind studio-based experience will showcase their works, 40 pieces from 20 artists and designers, alongside a curated archival display celebrating the incredibly rich history of the program.

Monday, November 23 to Sunday, November 29

OCAD University Great Hall

This exhibition is generously supported by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Great Hall, 2nd Floor 100 McCaul Street Toronto, ON
Email: 
jsuddick@ocadu.ca
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31st Annual Book Arts Fair

Saturday, December 5, 2015 - 5:00am

31st Annual Book Arts Fair

The Printmakers of OCAD University invite you to visit our 31st Annual Book Arts Fair to be held in the Great Gall at 100 McCaul St, on Saturday, December 5, 2015!
Visitors can peruse and purchase hand-printed and bound books, prints, artist multiples, handmade paper and cards, buttons, totes, letterpress posters and much more!
Fifty to sixty book artists, printmakers, very small publishers, ‘zine’makers, OCAD U students, professional artists, letterpress printers,
papermaking and printmaking suppliers, and cooperative print shops will all be on hand offering unique gifts, collector's items and other treasures.
The OCAD U Book Arts Fair is a long-running annual venue for showcasing book arts, a passionate, underground form of visual arts that has been growing in popularity.
Proceeds from mounting the fair and donations at the door support student book artists and printmakers in OCAD U’s Printmaking program.

Venue & Address: 
The Great Hall at 100 McCaul St.
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