About AUArts
100 years of creative excellence.
AUArts is a leading centre for education and research, and a catalyst for creative inquiry and cultural development. We engage the world and create possibilities.
As one of Canada’s four innovative universities dedicated to art, craft and design, we’re proud to play an important role in our country’s visual culture. AUArts graduates have gained significant national and international reputations as artists, designers and creative leaders.
Our talented community of emerging creatives learns from the best – experts who are among the country’s most acclaimed practicing artists and academics, across a diverse range of degree programs and disciplines. Formerly Alberta College Art + Design (ACAD), AUArts is a place where students can continue their education, earn an undergraduate degree or achieve their MFA.
AUArts is located in Calgary, Alberta. Close to stunning mountain parks and full of arts and culture, Calgary is a safe, sunny city with a small-town heart. As Calgary’s economy becomes increasingly diverse, the potential for finding meaningful employment and a market for work is high – for both students and graduates.
Publications
Read about AUArts' contribution to the community, learn about our vision for the future, view our annual reports and see what's going on in our academic calendars.
PublicationsFaculty and staff
AUArts' faculty members are some of the most talented artists, designers and critical thinkers in Canada. Several are Governor General’s Award winners, and all of them are gifted practitioners of their respective crafts.
Faculty and staffGovernance
Alberta University of the Arts follows a bicameral or shared governance structure as defined by the Alberta Post-secondary Learning Act.
GovernanceWhat's happening at AUArts.
AUArts 2025 Open House
Explore everything Alberta University of the Arts has to offer through in-person booths, presentations, guided studio tours and more.
AUArts Open House
Our people.
Dara Humniski
Dara works primarily in drawing, but also printmaking, photography and sculpture.
Tech Dara Humniski
Ian Fitzgerald
Ian communicates directly and purposefully with students; this is the most rewarding aspect of his career.
Ian Fitzgerald
Juliana Rempel
Growing up in Southern Alberta, the influence of the Prairie Landscape is strong within Juliana’s work.
Juliana Rempel
Ashleigh Bartlett
Ashleigh Bartlett is a visual artist interested in theatricality, abstraction, feminism and the history of painting.
Ashleigh BartlettAlberta 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.
