The Canadian Society of Decorative Arts/Cercle canadien des arts décoratifs (CSDA/CCAD) hosts in-person and online programs year-round, including lectures, panel discussions, symposia, maker demonstrations, and special tours.

Ornamentum Lecture Series
Since 2022, the CSDA/CCAD has invited a contributor to Ornamentum magazine to present an online lecture. Recordings of past lectures are available at csda-ccad.org/Learn.

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Previous Lectures: 

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Biting Towards Our Future with Diane Blunt, an artist, birch-bark biter, and member of the Kawartha Nishnawbe Nation
April 25, 2024

Where do the Children Play? with Alex Smith, the founder and editor of the award-winning blog, Playgroundology
October 26, 2023

Craftivism Since 2001 with Mary Callahan (MC) Baumstark, a craftivism scholar, art administrator, and artist in Lewistown, Montana
April 13th, 2023

Retailing Radio: How the T. Eaton Company Sold the Idea of Radio in 1920s-1930s Canada with Dr. Michael Windover, Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History and Assistant Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University
October 20, 2022

Cultural Vessels - When 1960s Mi’kmaq Design and Stories Met Traditional English Bone China with Emma Hassencahl-Perly a Wolastoqey artist, curator and educator from Negotiuk (Tobique First Nation) and John Leroux, manager of collections and exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
March 24, 2022