Donate to AUArts
Your donation today will help ensure a vital and vibrant art, craft and design community. Here are ways you can give.
Your unrestricted gift provides AUArts with the most flexibility to direct funds to where they are needed.
Right now, our greatest need is for scholarships, bursaries and awards for students struggling financially as the world emerges from a global pandemic. Your gift will support our General Scholarship Fund, encouraging students to pursue their academic goals at AUArts.
AUArts is not accepting gifts-in-kind at this time.
Leave a creative legacy
Supporting the future of AUArts through a bequest in your will or another type of planned gift will make a meaningful statement about your passion for the creative arts.
There are many options for leaving a creative legacy to benefit the future of AUArts, and several provide tax benefits for you to enjoy now.
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Leave a gift in your will
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Donate a life insurance policy
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Name AUArts as a beneficiary of an RRSP or RRIF
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Give through an annuity
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Arrange a charitable remainder trust
AUArts encourages you to consult with your professional advisors on the most appropriate type of legacy gift to meet your individual financial and tax situation.
Honour someone with a tribute gift
Sometimes finding a unique gift for a special person can be a challenge. With a tribute gift, you can celebrate a friend, colleague or loved one by supporting the arts in their name.
Donate publicly traded shares
A gift of publicly traded shares is a unique way to support AUArts and offers a meaningful tax benefit for you.
The process is simple. You can transfer securities electronically from your account to AUArts’ account. Contact us for more information or download a publicly traded gift of securities transfer form.
You’ll receive an official tax receipt for the full market value of your investments as calculated on the date they are received by AUArts.
Support scholarships, bursaries and awards
The AUArts Scholarships & Awards Program supports emerging artists and designers as they develop their talents at AUArts.
Support scholarships, bursaries and awardsSupport Illingworth Kerr Gallery
Alberta University of the Arts' Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG) is a world-class exhibition space and flexible platform for critical enquiry and theoretical debate with a focus on visual culture.
Support Illingworth Kerr GalleryBecome a corporate sponsor or community partner
Business and the arts are natural partners, contributing to a future where business prospers and creativity thrives.
Become a corporate sponsor or community partnerAUArts Boost-A-Student Fund
For our 1,200 students, their future is art, craft and design, and some are in desperate need of a boost of support.
AUArts Boost-A-Student FundShow + Sale Training Fund
Help students learn e-commerce skills including how to photo-document and digitally upload their artworks and create their unique artist statements.
Show + Sale Training Fund