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Event

28 May 2025

Convocation 2025

Convocation will take place at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, next to the AUArts Campus.

Exhibitions

29 Apr 2025 - 8 Jun 2025

Skip and Jump

Discover the incredible new exhibit by AUArts' talented MFA students.

3 May 2025 - 1 Jun 2025

Women-Bird-Moonlight

We are thrilled about the opening of Ashleigh Bartlett’s inaugural exhibition Women-Bird-Moonlight at TrépanierBaer.

Events

31 May 2025

LOOK25 Gala: Noir Nouveau

Calgary’s most anticipated annual celebration of contemporary art brings the community together to support the ongoing work of Contemporary Calgary.

25 Jun 2025 - 27 Jun 2025

Prairie Art Network Institute 2025

Prairie Art Network is a network for Prairie-based arts and cultural professionals, visual arts educators, artists and students.

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Average faculty to student ratio

21

Average student class size

11

Governor General Award winning faculty and alumni

Illingworth Kerr Gallery

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MFA Thesis Exhibition 2025

Apr 3 - 12, 2025

About AUArts

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For almost 100 years, AUArts has played an important role in our country’s visual culture. We are a university dedicated to art, craft and design – the only one in Alberta and in the Prairies, and one of four in Canada.

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Being creative often means taking a different path than most. That’s why AUArts offers more subject areas than most design schools, small classes, and the flexibility to create a curriculum as unique as you are.

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Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) is situated on the ancestral land of the Siksikaitsitapi – Blackfoot Confederacy which includes the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani Nations and the shared territories of the Tsuut’ina Nation as well as the Iyarhe Nakoda-Stoney which includes Bearspaw, Chiniki, Good Stoney Nations and also the home of the Métis Nation of District 5 and 6. The City of Calgary has long been called Moh’kins’tsis by the Siksikaitsitapi, Guts’ists’i by the Tsuut’ina, and Wîchîspa by the Nakoda.

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