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Marion Nicoll, Sundogs, 1976. Clay print on paper. Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, purchased with funds from the Soper Endowment. Photography by Charles Cousins, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Exhibition

17 Jan 2025 - 8 Mar 2025

AUArts Gallery Crawl

AUArts Gallery Crawl is a campus-wide semi-annual event to encourage community building, art production, gallery curation and more.

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Exhibitions

15 Jan 2025 - 28 Apr 2025

Serenity Passage

A CHINOOK BLAST INSTALLATION

25 Jan 2025 - 12 Apr 2025

Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving

Explore Alberta Craft’s national exhibition, Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving, highlighting the work of twenty-one Craft artists across Canada.

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Events

26 Feb 2025

Visiting Speaker: Dr. Dori Tunstall

AUArts hosts distinguished design anthropologist and celebrated author Dr. Dori Tunstall for a public lecture that will address two aspects of decolonizing design.

27 Feb 2025

A Conversation With Artist Rocio Graham and Therapist Joanne Reynolds

Our stories of radical love and human connection have the power to transform.

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News

13 Feb 2025

Next chief executive announced to lead 100-year-old Alberta art, craft and design university

18 Dec 2024

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 2024 Indigenous Artists Award Winners

8 Nov 2024

AUArts Alum Creates 2025 Calgary Stampede Poster

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Greg Payce, SSSSSSS, 2000. Ceramic. Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, gift of the Artist. Photography by Charles Cousins, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Alberta.

About AUArts

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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