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Exhibition

15 Jan 2025 - 28 Apr 2025

Serenity Passage

A CHINOOK BLAST INSTALLATION

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Event

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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Exhibitions

5 Apr 2025 - 26 Apr 2025

Thin Edge of a Wedge

The paintings in Thin Edge of a Wedge conceptualize abstraction as a stage and realism as a character.

22 Mar 2025 - 26 Apr 2025

ALBUM: Ron Moppett @ 80

Help us celebrate Ron Moppett and his amazing career spanning over 55 years.

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Events

8 May 2025

CanAsian Arts On the Move is a national showcase and celebration of Asian artists from different disciplines, through a live simulcast event, streaming from Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton.

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.

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News

11 Apr 2025

A farewell message from Dr. Daniel Doz

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

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Illingworth Kerr Gallery

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2025

Apr 3 - 12, 2025

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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