Events & News

Portfolio Review Day

Event

29 Nov 2025

Portfolio Review Day 2025

Portfolio Review Day is a great opportunity for future AUArts students to get some helpful tips on how to make your portfolio more impactful.

Exhibitions

18 Sep 2025 - 16 Dec 2025

The People and the Lodge

Celebrate the voices and visions of contemporary Indigenous artists from across First Nations.

3 Oct 2025 - 6 Dec 2025

Ecologies

Eveline Kolijn marries science with art; generating through printmaking, video and installation, a fantastical vision of our natural world.

Events

15 Nov 2025 - 16 Nov 2025

Hand Made Here 2025

Come to Hand Made Here for an enjoyable shopping experience!

18 Nov 2025

Disability Arts Event

The Disability Arts Event, organized and hosted by Mount Royal students, will showcase art by AUArts MFA students Jordan Mitchell and Jesi Yager.

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Average faculty to student ratio

$400k+

Student financial awards distributed annually

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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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Learn with us

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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Land acknowledgement

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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Donors make a difference! Your contributions inspire students as they pursue a career in a creative economy. Choose to support AUArts in a way that’s meaningful to you.

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