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Events for designers & creatives

This calendar lists in-person and online design and arts events for graphic designers, illustrators, and visual creatives. We built this to help strengthen our community and reduce gatekeeping and barriers to connection. All events are based in Toronto.

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Invisible Friends: AI Motion Design Day for Artists & Builders At Toronto Tech Week

JER Creative Lab

Goodbye To The People I Used To Be

Life Drawing: Drawing the Costumed Model

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Unleash Your Inner Artist: A Butterfly Drawing Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Featured Events

Radiate

YorkU DESN’s Class of 2026

Join us for Radiate, York University's DESN 2026 Grad Show. To us, Radiate is a space where we let our humanity shine, celebrating not only our vast design work but also the creative sparks that radiate from within us.

DrawingTO: Unleash your creativity - Zine Making Edition

In this session, we will go through inspiring exercises to spark your creativity in order to make a Zine, which is a small hand-made art book. All supplies are provided, and no prior art experience is needed.

Happening Today & Ongoing Exhibitions

Inner Structures — Outer Rhythms

Inner Structures — Outer Rhythms

Aga Khan Museum

Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms offers a glimpse into the dynamic graphic design scene of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), showcasing how innovative Arabic and Persian typography contribute to global visual culture.

Amazing! Fantastic! Astounding! Science Fiction and the Pulp Magazines

Amazing! Fantastic! Astounding! Science Fiction and the Pulp Magazines

Toronto Public Library

The pulps were fiction magazines that dominated North America from the 1890s to the 1950s. For over half a century, they were the most affordable source of mass entertainment. And they were also the main source of science fiction. Explore the rise and fall of the pulps. Discover decades-old pulps, original pulp art, books and more.

Loops, Swoops & Curlicues: A Legacy of Handwritten History

Loops, Swoops & Curlicues: A Legacy of Handwritten History

Toronto Public Library

The value of cursive writing has become a matter of debate as rapid technological changes make the need to put pen to paper increasingly rare. This exhibition showcases a variety of formats that researchers make use of such as personal letters, diaries, and notebooks as well as public documents, business records and hand-drawn maps.

Upcoming Events

Nastaliq Calligraphy

Nastaliq Calligraphy

Orkid Gallery Collection

Nastaliq calligraphy, a treasured legacy of Persian culture, is a perfect blend of elegance, harmony, and fluidity. This course will guide you step by step, from the basics to advanced techniques, helping you refine your skills and create stunning calligraphic pieces.

Reduction Linocut

Reduction Linocut

Flycatcher Press

For intermediate and beginners to linocut or relief carving. In this 6-hour course you will develop your skills in designing, carving and printing relief prints. We will work on a two-colour linocut reduction print.

Product Evenings TO: Delivering Value When Tools Are Limited

Product Evenings TO: Delivering Value When Tools Are Limited

Join us for a conversation with Katie Meyer, Lead Designer at Scotiabank, as she shares how designers can drive meaningful impact inside large organizations, even when access to new AI tools is limited. Katie will explore how constraints can sharpen strategy, elevate craft, and unlock smarter decision making across teams.

Modern Watercolour Blooms

Modern Watercolour Blooms

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Loose, expressive brushwork, wet-into-wet transitions, and modern florals, come alive in this watercolour demo. It is well suited to painters who want to loosen their style while still maintaining structure and clarity in their florals.

F*** the Algorithm: authentic creation + marketing workshop

F*** the Algorithm: authentic creation + marketing workshop

For founders, creators, facilitators: share your voice and authentic self, build real community and promote your epic creations - without being owned by the algorithm. For the ones who don't want to be glued to social media or high screentime... but do want to share their gifts more.

Tenugui Towels with Cherry Blossoms: Design Excellence in Daily Life

Tenugui Towels with Cherry Blossoms: Design Excellence in Daily Life

The Japan Foundation

In celebration of spring 2026, with Cherry Blossoms as a main theme, along with related Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, this colourful exhibition demonstrates the endless creativity in Tenugui. Individual towels were used for a remarkable number of purposes not only for wiping and cleaning, but also for wrapping and wearing, and even as advertising tools.

Toronto Linocut Printing Workshop | Hands-On Printmaking Workshop

Toronto Linocut Printing Workshop | Hands-On Printmaking Workshop

Sign up for Lino Printing and connect with fellow creatives for an evening of Printmaking! This beginner-friendly workshop will walk you through the process of carving your own stamp block and hand printing with a single-colour process.

Vibrant Tomato: Acrylic Painting

Vibrant Tomato: Acrylic Painting

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Explore acrylic painting with a step-by-step project, presented by professional artist, Tori Smyth. Our topic this session? A vibrant tomato!

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Letterpress Club is designed to remove barriers that prevent people from accessing the Vandercook press. Through this club, we will explore all the fun ways to play with letterpress and relief on this beautiful press while building an inclusive community.

Beyond the Basics Succulent Centrepiece Workshop

Beyond the Basics Succulent Centrepiece Workshop

Canadian Succulents

This hands-on workshop features the design and assembly of a succulent centrepiece arrangement in a large, modern ceramic planter. Dive deeper into styling principles, including colour harmony, texture combinations, and structural balance.

Turning paper into fabric

Turning paper into fabric

The Japanese Paper Place

Learn the secrets of Konnyaku in this full-day workshop where we’ll transform beautiful Japanese washi paper into fabric-like material and make a simple tsunobukuro style bag. We’ll also fill it with two hand-stitched journals!

DrawingTO: Unleash your creativity - Zine Making Edition

DrawingTO: Unleash your creativity - Zine Making Edition

In this session, we will go through inspiring exercises to spark your creativity in order to make a Zine, which is a small hand-made art book. All supplies are provided, and no prior art experience is needed.

Printmaking!

Printmaking!

Hot Pizza Studio

We’ll explore relief printmaking using rubber and lino blocks to create prints on textiles and paper. Through guided demonstrations, students learn tool handling, registration, and reduction. Participants will leave with decorative (and even functional!) pieces while gaining the skills and confidence to continue printmaking independently.

Silkscreen Workshop!

Silkscreen Workshop!

Learn the basics of silkscreen printing in a laid-back, fun atmosphere. These workshops are perfect for people who don't necessarily want to know every technical detail about screen printing, but have always wanted to print and make something in one class – and have tons of fun doing it. Wine, cheese and French music included!

Sketching from Scratch

Sketching from Scratch

This is an informal workshop — a chance to learn, hone or practice a new drawing technique each month. We'll have some music playing and a few snacks for the break. Each session, we'll focus on one drawing technique by reviewing some history, examples, and hands-on worksheets and still-life practice.

Storage Book Workshop

Storage Book Workshop

Big River Bindery

The storage book is a structure that uses an accordion folded Tyvek spine and pages folded at the fore edge. Hedi Kyle invented this to store ephemera and small items but it works well as a way to display printed material.

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

We’ll have a full lineup with over 80 new vendors this April! Visit them at your favourite pop-up’s favourite pop-up! Come explore Toronto’s hottest vintage and handmade small businesses! 🛍️

Nastaliq Calligraphy

Nastaliq Calligraphy

Orkid Gallery Collection

Nastaliq calligraphy, a treasured legacy of Persian culture, is a perfect blend of elegance, harmony, and fluidity. This course will guide you step by step, from the basics to advanced techniques, helping you refine your skills and create stunning calligraphic pieces.

Wood Type Wonders!

Wood Type Wonders!

Flycatcher Press

Learn about the different ways to layer and ink wood type in this creative workshop meant for those who like to play with type! Using wood type from our collection and printing on our vintage sign press and vandercook press, you'll typeset and print a souvenir poster with your phrase and take home a few copies to share.

Art Battle Toronto

Art Battle Toronto

Art Battle International

Art in motion. You choose the winner at Longboat Hall, inside The Great Hall venue! Creativity knows no bounds! Watch as masterful artists craft stunning masterpieces in just 20 minutes per round.

Pooches & Pastels

Pooches & Pastels

Toronto Dog Moms + CandyPress

Ever dreamed of turning your dog into a one-of-a-kind work of art? Now is your chance. Toronto Dog Moms is teaming up with Katika from Candy Press for a fun and creative night where you will draw your very own custom dog portrait using vibrant oil pastels.

TFIG: Thank F*ck It's Glue! Roncy Collage Circle

TFIG: Thank F*ck It's Glue! Roncy Collage Circle

c-suite creative

Overworked and uninspired? Join us for the creative escape you’ve been missing and your new favourite Friday night social. Zero experience needed. Zero judgment allowed. We've got all the supplies—you just bring yourself and whatever chaotic or zen energy you're working with that day. Let's make something weird and wonderful together.

Radiate

Radiate

YorkU DESN’s Class of 2026

Join us for Radiate, York University's DESN 2026 Grad Show. To us, Radiate is a space where we let our humanity shine, celebrating not only our vast design work but also the creative sparks that radiate from within us.

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

We’ll have a full lineup with over 80 new vendors this April! Visit them at your favourite pop-up’s favourite pop-up! Come explore Toronto’s hottest vintage and handmade small businesses! 🛍️

Toronto Stationary Show

Toronto Stationary Show

Toronto Stationary Show

The Toronto Stationery Show unites the community of stationery enthusiasts in the city and around the world. We are artists & businesses who are passionate about snail mail and paper related goods. Discover new and local creatives at our events!

Block Printing on Fabric: A Tote Bag Workshop

Block Printing on Fabric: A Tote Bag Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Learn the fundamentals of block printing on fabric. Carve your own linoleum block, learn how to properly set up a printing area, and print your design onto a fabric tote bag with guided instruction! All materials provided.

Linocut & Letterpress Posters

Linocut & Letterpress Posters

Flycatcher Press

Mix pattern or imagery in linocut and vintage type and see what amazing design can be generated from these two relief processes. In this day-long course you'll learn about the history of wood and metal typesetting in letterpress printing and how to design and print a successful letterpress poster with both type and carved linoleum.

Collage Party with Ehiko Odeh, Opaloma, & Gelinas Dental Studio

Collage Party with Ehiko Odeh, Opaloma, & Gelinas Dental Studio

Issues Magazine Shop

Made for a night out, this event features a "fireside chat", a collage making workshop, snacks, drinks and good vibes. Pull up a seat at our art table. Sip on a glass on wine, while our artist host tells you about the magic of collage — and how they weave it into their practice. Get messy as you cut and paste your way to your way to your own masterpiece.

FITC

FITC

This year, FITC Toronto explores the theme of rebirth. In a world moving too fast and overwhelmed by AI and shiny new tools, we want to pause, reflect, and bring back the concepts that inspired us as artists.

Life Drawing: Drawing the Costumed Model

Life Drawing: Drawing the Costumed Model

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

*New An informal costumed life drawing session, the last Tuesday each month at Gwartzman's! Join fellow creatives, practice techniques, experiment and relax. Each month will feature different models and outfits.

Open Studio

Open Studio

A judgment-free space to doodle, colour, write & just breathe. Come create, connect, and rest — alongside like-minded folks. A portion of proceeds supports the Parkdale Food Bank. 🎨✨

Open Studio

Open Studio

A judgment-free space to doodle, colour, write & just breathe. Come create, connect, and rest — alongside like-minded folks. A portion of proceeds supports the Parkdale Food Bank. 🎨✨

Unleash Your Inner Artist: A Butterfly Drawing Workshop

Unleash Your Inner Artist: A Butterfly Drawing Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Join Toronto artist, Alan Li, for an immersive 3-hour graphite & ink drawing workshop. Discover the intricate beauty of butterfly specimens as you learn to capture their delicate details with precision and creativity.

RGD's In-House Design Conference

RGD's In-House Design Conference

The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD)

Whether you're an in-house design department of 1 or part of a creative team spanning multiple offices, RGD's In-House Design Conference allows you to expand your knowledge, hone your skills and develop your career as an in-house creative.

Goodbye To The People I Used To Be

Goodbye To The People I Used To Be

A 4-hour immersive art experience of visualization, mirror work, and self-portraiture. Release who you've been. Make space for who's coming. Guided by Rage Flowers. Presented by Re-Work.

Book Binding Basics

Book Binding Basics

Flycatcher Press

Not sure where to start with book binding? This class will introduce you to the basic tools and materials you need for a few simple adhesive and sewn notebooks, and give you the skills and confidence to start on your bookbinding journey. Warning: it's addictive!

Relief Printmaking (5 Weeks)

Relief Printmaking (5 Weeks)

The inPrint Collective

Join us at the inPrint Studio to learn the art of relief printmaking. During this 5 week class you will learn how to carve a linoleum block and print on our studio press. Students will first learn the basics and create a 1-layer print, then be challenged to create a 2-layer reduction print.

Past Events

'Cause maybe they'll happen again, y'know?

Design Evenings TO: The Evolution of the Designer in an Agentic Era

Figma Makeathon

Drawing the Costumed Model

Toronto Comic Jam

Chinese Calligraphy Workshop 毛笔字体验活动

Foil Embossing with Lahore Heritage Club x Sukoon Space

Beginner Linocut printmaking workshop

Type Grad Show

Drawn to Life: Physical Animation Workshop

Paperjam 2026

Lino Printing: Reductive Printmaking Workshop – Multi-Colour Prints

Craftic Meetup & Swap at Mischief Makers

A global view for local relevance

CTRL+SHIFT Vol. 10

Zine Club

EyeDot studio Critique Night.

Ligatures Talk Series #5

Open Studio

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