The Ontario College of Art & Design’s Professional Gallery, housed beside the landmark campus building designed by British architect Will Alsop, is a gem for art college students meandering the halls between classes. The gallery, while also open to the public, gives students access to contemporary works by nationally and internationally significant artists and designers, including two OCAD alumni who showed here last year: the “poet of plastic,” designer Karim Rashid and New York-based Rirkrit Tiravanija, who built a cinder block wall that barricaded the front entrance of the gallery. Opening Oct 4 is Design for the Other 90%, a travelling exhibition organized by the National Design Museum in New York that features product designs born of economic and social need, and includes such innovative ideas as a large-load-capacity bicycle and charcoal made from sugarcane. The exhibition runs until January 25, 2009.

OCAD Professional Gallery

100 McCaul St (Map It)
416 977 6000
Tue-Fri 1-7

Neighbourhood:

West End

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Galleries

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