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Our people bring to life, challenge, and enrich the growing community of OCAD U’s School of Graduate Studies!

The networks you find here support the next generation of artists, designers and industry leaders. Join a global alumni community of curators, art critics, scholars, educators, artists, designers and leaders in business, health-care, government and design.

Learn more about the faculty, students and alumni who make the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) a place to explore, enrich and expand your career and practice.

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Our Alumni

Our alumni are leading artists, designers and creative thinkers in their fields.

Genevieve Wallen

Independent Curator & Writer

Criticism and Curatorial Practice (MFA), 2015.

Tommy Ting

Technical Production Manager at Framestore

Digital Futures (MA, MFA, MDes), 2019.

Alison Mulvale

Service Design Coordinator for The Housing Services Team at CMHA Toronto

Design for Health (MDes), 2018.

David Salazar

Sculptor

Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (MA, MFA & MDes), 2017.

Jaicyea Smith

Inclusive Designer, Community Animator, Performer, Artist

Inclusive Design (MDes), 2020.

Alexandra McLaren

Peer Facilitator at OCAD U Student Wellness Centre

Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories (MA), 2014.

Zan Chandler

Foresight Practitioner and Design Researcher and Instructor, Strategic Foresight and Innovation Masters program, OCAD U

Strategic Foresight and Innovation (MDes), 2012.

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Our Students

Here are some of the ways students bring their ideas and research to life in our 7 programs.

Colourful flags with text hung in OCAD U's main entrance

Hear from Justine Power about the CCP program.

Digital Futures student giving camera a thumbs up

Hear from DF students as they answer: "What is Digital Futures?"

Hear from Jill Price about the IAMD program.

Hear from Rachna Kumar about the SFI program.

Faculty

Our faculty are locally invested and internationally known community of artists, designers, business leaders, scholars, writers, historians, and curators.

Dr. Suzanne Morrisette

Graduate Program Director, Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories & Criticism and Curatorial Practice

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences & Graduate Studies

Dr. Suzanne Morrissette (she/her) is an artist, curator, and scholar whose interests include: family and community knowledge, the telling of in-between histories, and practices of making that support and sustain life.

Dr. Michelle Wyndham West