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.
Portfolio Review Day 2025
Portfolio Review Day is a great opportunity for future AUArts students to get some helpful tips on how to make your portfolio more impactful.
Portfolio Review Day
Our people.
Dr. Sarah Alford
Currently my research and practice stem from my studies in nineteenth-century natural philosophy and the ways in which botanists coped with the rapid influx of plants into Britain by promoting and inventing a new and unstable pre-Darwinian taxonomy, the Natural System, through the wide-spread dissemination of botanical illustration.
Dr. Sarah Alford
Peter Redecopp
Peter Redecopp is a multi-disciplinary artist that primarily works with computational media and digital fabrication technologies.
Tech Peter Redecopp
Xahra Hafeez
Xahra is a firm believer of the transformative power of design as a catalyst of positive change in the world.
Xahra Hafeez
Alana Bartol
Alana Bartol comes from a long line of water witches.
Alana BartolAlberta 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.
