Events & News

Exhibitions

18 Sep 2025 - 16 Dec 2025

The People and the Lodge

Celebrate the voices and visions of contemporary Indigenous artists from across First Nations.

25 Oct 2025 - 11 Nov 2025

Threads of Nature

Prather merges painting and embroidery to create tactile, multidimensional works—blending realistic acrylic layers with delicate hand-stitched details.

Events

7 Nov 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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Average faculty to student ratio

$400k+

Student financial awards distributed annually

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Governor General Award winning faculty and alumni

Illingworth Kerr Gallery

Chris Cran, 'From Puberty to Poverty', 2001. Illingworth Kerr Gallery Collection.

Faces and Places

Sep 19 - Nov 22, 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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Learn with us

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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Donors make a difference! Your contributions inspire students as they pursue a career in a creative economy. Choose to support AUArts in a way that’s meaningful to you.

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