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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

One of our community’s most vitally important organizations, Parkdale Legal, is facing eviction, as the landlord and developer market the site to creative professionals. As a community arts practice here in Parkdale, we call on our fellow artists and designers to examine our role in this displacement, and to critically reflect on processes of gentrification through intersectional, abolitionist and decolonial lenses.

In the studio

We’re having a special sale on our People’s History Posters! Right now you can get all of our posters at 30% off for $20 each or a bundle of three posters for $50 (before tax and shipping). Each People’s History Poster is silk-screened by hand and beautifully commemorates a social justice movement and issue.

In the blog

In this issue, we speak with Zviko Mhakayakora, OCAD graduate and former student of Sheila’s, who interned at the studio in 2016. Since then, whether as the Special Projects Coordinator for the new Design4 initiative at OCAD University, or coordinating Sheila’s wedding day, we’ve seen her continue to share her talents and wisdom in ever growing ways.

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

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