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We manifest your vision through design.

Send the Right Message

We worked with a youth design team to develop a website and campaign that encourages straight and cisgender high school youth to challenge everyday instances of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.

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We build capacity through collaborative skill-sharing.

Un(Knotted): Co-creating safer spaces at OCAD U

Through workshops, an interactive show and zine, community engagement, and a book for Sexual Assault: The Roadshow we collectively explored the nuances of sexual violence on campus.

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We inspire possibilities through accessible resources.

Do It Yourself Our Creative Resistance Zine Library

Our free and downloadable how-to series is designed to make our skill sets accessible to the communities with whom we work.

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What's happening at
The Public Studio

In the gallery

Par Nair’s installation dear amma explores themes of yearning, longing, loss, and melancholia felt by diaspora. Through a display of objects that belonged to her mother, the artist explores experiences of confusion, “double life”, and transformation often felt in migrant journeys. Through these objects that are both intimate and nomadic such as hand cut stamps and embroidered sarees, the artist invites us to consider the effects of assimilation and fragmentation that migrant experiences hold.

In the studio

We are excited to be collaborating with the Parkdale Women's Leadership Group and the Community Safety Committee for Mutual Aid Parkdale on a series of workshops that will translate their safety workshops into open-access zines for community use.

In the blog

The Public is looking for an experienced consultant to support a shift in our studio operations. We are a small team that works in unique and responsive ways to meet the needs of our clients and our own needs as workers. As we continue to grow, we are looking for someone who can evaluate our workflow—surveying our day-to-day, design processes, production management and project management—and recommend processes of operation that support our complex organizational and interpersonal needs.

In the community

Our communities are thriving and organizing for a better city and world. Check out these upcoming events we are so excited to be supporting!

Who is The Public?

We are a group of activists and creatives invested in making a more beautiful and just world. We work collaboratively to deliver work that is creatively, emotionally, and intellectually uplifting, that challenges oppressive ideas, and that empowers people to pursue real change.

Who is The Public?

We are a group of activists and creatives invested in making a more beautiful and just world. We work collaboratively to deliver work that is creatively, emotionally, and intellectually uplifting, that challenges oppressive ideas, and that empowers people to pursue real change.
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The Public Studio
58 Lansdowne Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 2V9

people@thepublicstudio.ca

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