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Exhibitions

1 Nov 2025 - 31 Mar 2026

Solutions for the City

Open your mind to one-of-a-kind, experimental, studio-based projects and artist exhibitions in the Lightbox Studio.

Events

21 Mar 2026

Clay: How Hard Can It Be?

Connect with ceramic artists and potters, and expand your understanding and appreciation of clay.

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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

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MFA Thesis Exhibition 2026

Apr 10 - 18, 2026

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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