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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 Mar 2025 - 17 May 2025

Spaces Between

Join the Alberta Craft Calgary Gallery in celebrating their newest SPOTLIGHT exhibition Charis Birchall Spaces Between.

12 Apr 2025 - 20 Jun 2025

Real to Me

What do we truly share? What belongs to us, and what remains just out of reach, in our relationships—whether with people, places, or memories?

Events

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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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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