Why be bored in school? Go to a Skateboard School! This Toronto District School Board alternative school design program helps students earn high school credits and graduate by creating their own brand and running a skateboard business / professional design studio. OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY (OSF) "ON THE GRIND": TDSB's ART & ENTREPRENEURSHIP O.G.s since 2006!

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Yo...NYC is a GO!


Dear OSF Community & Friends: We are approx. $1500 short for students to afford this so donate to our Go Fund Me page or help us out however you can! Reminders to Students: the second installment of cheques to EVOLVE Tours and new forms are due by the end of this week, with the remainder due by May 14. Reminder to students needing passports to get photos done this week...

Plaque presented to OSF Leaders for our design & fundraising work with #‎MOVEMBER


OSF design leaders Skype into Anomaly NYC to get briefed on our upcoming wall installation there


Lauren & students teach Screenprinting to our friends from the Triangle Program


Ready to press these nature-themed laser-cut patterns onto boards for a skateboard sculpture we are making with Ted Hunter


Saturday, April 25, 2015

OSF x Spacing Magazine 2.0 installation on display as part of TDSBCreates at Artscape Youngplace


Love Skateboards & Street Art? Then you might want to go to high school at Oasis Skateboard Factory this September! Info Sessions every Wednesday at 9am (applications due May 27)


Artist talk by Keesic Douglas at OSF: Using photography to challenge Aboriginal stereotypes


Appropriately wrapping the store sign we made for Stock in Trade in butcher paper!


The things we do to not let the rain storm stop us from painting our skateboards!


20-min Logo ReDesign Challenge helps students practice pitches in OSF class today


You'll love going to this skateboard & street art high school design program! Applications for September Registration at OSF are due by May 27 (Info Sessions held every Wednesday at 9AM)


OSF Student Designed Band Tee for clients BONE DONOR #‎altMFG


Layers of love on our spray paint surface at Scadding Court


OSF is a proud member of altMFG: Design/Manufacture/Distribute. Guild members of altMFG are public alternative school programs populated by student makers. We support youth to be the makers of their own culture and support them to design, produce and retail their products in public and professional contexts. #altMFG


Our YorkU Intern Sam teaches a class on the History of the Skateboard Wheel before prototyping our own


Summer Employment for Young Entrepreneurs: Y.E.S. sharing their resources at OSF today


Hand-painted details going into some boards for our OSF x Bamboo Skateboards collab...


Alexa & Patrick share their stories about painting murals in Nunavit


Nice to be handed such a stylish menu at Gladstone Hotel brunch, proud knowing our OSF students printed it! #‎altMFG


Looking all professorial during a class on mold-making as we start to prototype some skateboard wheel innovations dreamed up by our students


OSF skateboard entrepreneurs being interviewed for a piece by Yahoo Canada


Studio Snapshot: OSF x Bamboo Skateboards in process...


Even though the weather was frightful this rainy Monday, the studio was a busy hive of activity working on our project with Bamboo Skateboards


OCADU: T.O. Architectural Icons Series for Spacing Magazine


In thanks to CJ's, a gift of an OSF 3D version of their logo!


Students present their PSAs and Posters from their collab with LOVE