AT THE WORLD IS OCAD UNIVERSITY, CHANGING WE TAKE IMAGINATION OCAD UNIVERSITY SERIOUSLY Located in downtown Toronto, we’re Canada’s oldest and largest university for art, design and media. OCAD UNIVERSITY As a student here, you benefit from hands-on studio learning. You have access to state-of-the-art shops and BE ADAPTABLE production facilities for both traditional and digital creation. BE RESILIENT You also take rich courses in humanities, business and BE CREATIVE science. The combination is empowering. Through it, you begin to see, make, think and do things differently. You gain incredible insight and skill — everything you need to take on the world. Samuel Kwan building a chair in the wood shop in 2017. 2 Photo by Oscar Fletcher 3 MAP 8-9 MINORS 33 FACTS & FIGURES 10-11 STUDENT SERVICES 36-37 OUR PROGRAMS 12-32 CAMPUS LIFE 38-39 Advertising 14 FEES AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES 40 Creative Writing 15 HOUSING 41 OCAD UNIVERSITY Criticism & Curatorial Practice 16 ADMISSIONS PROCESS 44-51 Cross-Disciplinary Art 17-18 Digital Futures 19 EVENTS 52 Digital Painting & Expanded Animation 21 CAREER DEVELOPMENT 54-55 Drawing & Painting 20 GRADUATE PROGRAMS 56-57 Environmental Design 22 OCAD UNIVERSITY Graphic Design 23 ALUMNI PROFILES 58-61 Illustration 24 CONTACT INFO 62-63 Indigenous Visual Culture 25 Industrial Design 26 Integrated Media 27 Material Art & Design 28 Photography 29 Printmaking 30 Sculpture/Installation 31 Visual and Critical Studies 32 4 5 OCAD UNIVERSITY WE DEVELOP OCAD UNIVERSITY CREATIVITY AND CREATIVITY IS IN DEMAND 6 7 QUEEN’S QUAY EAST OUR LOCATION OCAD U Campus OCAD University is located Student Residence in Toronto, home to more than 40,000 working Cultural Attraction designers as well as the third Art & Design largest concentration of FRONT STREET WEST Supplies/Resources visual arts and entertainment professionals in North America. Gallery Toronto is heralded as one of the most multicultural OCAD UNIVERSITY cities in the world, and we’re right in the middle of it. STREET N A We’re also at the centre of the C N creative corridor. Anchoring DU our multi-building urban OCAD UNIVERSITY campus is the iconic Sharp QUEEN STREET WEST Centre for Design, open since 2004 and now one of RICHMOND STREET WEST YONGE STREET KING STREET WEST Toronto’s most recognizable UNIVERSITY AVENUE DUNDAS STREET COLLEGE STREET landmarks. Here, and together McCAUL STREET with our local, national, Indigenous and international partners, we give you everything you need for SPADINA AVENUE creative growth. BLOOR STREET WEST 8 BATHURST AVENUE 9 SHAW STREET FACTS & FIGURES 143 17:1 91% Dozens years of educating student-to-faculty ratio of classes with fewer than of ways we’re here for you: the creative leaders of 30 students OCAD UNIVERSITY tomorrow • Academic Advising • Career Development • Student Accessibility Services • Experiential Learning opportunities • Financial Planning • Student Wellness Centre OCAD UNIVERSITY 18 4,500 18 • Indigenous Student Services undergraduate students fabrication studios and • International Student Services programs shop facilities • Student-run clubs and organizations • Student mentoring • Writing & Learning Centre • Visiting artists, speakers and 60+ 7 100+ exhibitions exchange partners graduate programs tools you can borrow 10 worldwide 11 OUR PROGRAMS OCAD UNIVERSITY OCAD UNIVERSITY Orbit (2016), Joël Guzman 12 OCAD U, B.F.A. 2014. 13 ADVERTISING Degree earned: CREATIVE WRITING Degree earned: Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Working closely with acclaimed advertising Be part of a dynamic hands-on, studio-based practitioners and researchers, you will explore the monumental impact that approach to the study and practice of writing as artistic creation. Unlike in other advertising as an industry and design discipline has on society and culture as you creative writing programs, you can hone your craft in writing while also exploring prepare to take a creative leadership role in its future. Learn how to make multiple art and design disciplines. Study living literary culture, literary art practices transformative contributions to local and global communities, with established and and production, and develop your craft of spoken, written and visual texts as well as emerging brands. Create advertising and communication solutions for a variety experimental language forms. of social, cultural and market-based problems, while gaining highly developed making and critical thinking skills that can be applied in art direction, copywriting, WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: communication design, and strategic planning. • Publishing • Journalism OCAD UNIVERSITY WHERE YOU CAN GO • Writing FROM HERE: • Public relations • Advertising agencies • Community development • Marketing companies • Literary performance • Design firms • Established and emerging brands • Entertainment and game producers OCAD UNIVERSITY • Media and broadcasting companies • Strategic planning agencies • Graduate studies in design, media, business and related disciplines 14 15 Photo by Martin Iskander; set-up by Ali Foorooghi, Vegan-ish is vegan enough, 2019. Catherine Black, 2018. CRITICISM & Degree earned: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY Degree earned: CURATORIAL PRACTICE Bachelor of Fine Arts ART: LIFE STUDIES Bachelor of Fine Arts Engage with professional practices in today’s Through cross-disciplinary approaches in a collaborative learning environment, museums, galleries and emerging cultural platforms in explore ideas of life, physical existence and materiality. Life Studies draws upon Canada’s only studio-based undergraduate program diverse perspectives and practice-based approaches from art, the sciences in criticism and curatorial practice. Explore the and the humanities. Informed by contemporary perspectives of ecology, technology possibilities for collaboration on artist-run initiatives and sustainability, build an ideas-based studio practice in any medium through with curators, writers and exhibition designers. Delve engagement with the living, the body and decolonial thought. You'll be able to take into current practices in contemporary art and curate diverse and enriching courses through a range of electives and minors. your own projects and exhibitions using creative OCAD UNIVERSITY critical approaches. WHERE YOU CAN GO WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: FROM HERE: • Curating art and writing art criticism • Artistic practice • Exhibition creation and production • Natural sciences and • Arts administration and advocacy related research • Art consulting (public and private collections, • Art education, curation, OCAD UNIVERSITY auction houses, corporate collecting) and administration • Graduate programs in art history, museum • Graduate studies studies and cultural studies Photo by Natalie Waldburger; Biodesign Presentation at the 16 Adrienne Hall, Net for Forgetting, untied lucky knots, wood, tangerines, 2016. MOMA NY, 2017. 17 CROSS-DISCIPLINARY Degree earned: DIGITAL FUTURES Degree earned: Bachelor of Fine Arts Bachelor of Design or ART: PUBLICATIONS Create the technologies that shape the Bachelor of Fine Arts way we live, work and play. Use a human- Explore the vast field of contemporary centric approach to the development publications, including DIY, alternative, of games, wearable technology, mobile academic and art-based markets, as apps, VR, interactive installations and well as mainstream book and magazine augmented reality to explore how they can production. Gain critical entrepreneurial, address contemporary issues and future design and editorial skills. This possibilities. Work directly with the specialization will introduce you to industries and communities that these individual and collaborative production technologies are impacting and test-drive OCAD UNIVERSITY processes, both print and digital. in real-world situations. You will have the opportunity to explore your own interests WHERE YOU CAN GO in these fields by taking a diverse range FROM HERE: of art, design and liberal arts courses. • Artistic practice • Online, print and alternative publishing • Graphic arts WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: OCAD UNIVERSITY • Game design • Creative and critical writing • UI/UX • VR/AR development • Creative technologies • Communications and data visualization • Internet of things Photo by Digital Futures. Project: Video Installation in Celebration Square, Mississauga 18 created in Atelier IV 19 Laura Rojas, Bananaland, 2018. Students: Mahnoor Shahid, Erika Davis Degree earned: DIGITAL PAINTING & DRAWING & PAINTING Degree earned: Bachelor of Fine Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts EXPANDED ANIMATION Learn how to become a dynamic artist through studying (SPECIALIZATION) *This specialization is available theory, art history and social issues. Take courses in landscape, through the Drawing & Painting or figurative and abstract painting. Learn to speak, write and present Integrated Media programs. your artwork for an exhibition. Be encouraged to experiment with Experiment with digital art and animation. digital, installation, and experimental approaches. Strengthen your technical abilities in digital imaging, stop-motion, video compositing, media installation, 3D modelling and animation. With this specialization, you’ll Strengthen skills in colour, value and texture. Depict WHERE YOU CAN GO develop your practice as an independent the figure through anatomy lessons and observational FROM HERE: OCAD UNIVERSITY artist and animator, and learn skills you can skills. Learn the power of composition and surface in • Artistic practice use in a variety of creative industries.