Events & News

Exhibitions

15 Sep 2025 - 1 Nov 2025

Mapping Crosscurrents

Mapping Crosscurrents show presents the work of the second year MFA in Craft Media students as they conclude their three semesters of artistic exploration in a diverse range of disciplines, techniques and processes.

4 Sep 2025 - 11 Oct 2025

Influential

INFLUENTIAL features work by HKG Gallery Artists who have been taught, mentored or inspired by the work and life of Katie Ohe.

Events

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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

Chris Cran, 'From Puberty to Poverty', 2001. Illingworth Kerr Gallery Collection.

Faces and Places

Sep 19 - Nov 22, 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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