The Role
Our artists live with disabilities of varying forms but come to the studio because they want to be artists. To help our artists meet this goal, our Studio Faculty will lead their media-specific departments while making extra efforts to encourage, inspire, and motivate them to conceptualize new ideas, create with new mediums, develop and deliver specialized training programs, and exhibit their works when opportunities arise.
Alberta artists Ana Zanella and Veronica Funk present their own very distinct versions of
memories: abstract grids depicting patterns and organic motifs found in daily life, and portraits inspired by miniature vintage photographs – bringing together old and new through bodies of work that are interconnected by the past but presented in a way that represents the present. The show runs from August 5 - 30th.
Ana Zanella is a painter and mixed media artist living in Calgary who is interested in
Date and Time:
July 22, 2025, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Venue Name and Address:
The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse - 9351 118 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5G 0N3
Link to Event:
https://www.thecarrot.ca/events-at-the-carrot/2025/07/twisting-into-summer-flower-workshop
Event Cost:
$5 per person | Limited Spots
Date and Time:
July 19, 2025, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue Name and Address:
94 Street and 118 Avenue, Edmonton, AB
Link to Event:
https://www.thecarrot.ca/chalk-it-up-2025
Event Cost:
Free
You’re officially invited to the event your soul didn’t know it needed.
Join us for an inspiring evening of poetry, paint, and powerful stories at RETRO in downtown Camrose as we celebrate local creativity in full bloom.
🖋️ Carmen Lea — launching her raw and radiant poetry memoir
Unshattered: A Journey in Poems from Wreckage to Radiance
💜 Come get your copy signed and meet the author!
This year's upcoming events include...
Open to artists working in all visual arts mediums, this program is faculty-led while providing space, time, and support towards the development of an agreed-upon studio project.
As well as having the opportunity to research, experiment, and create, participants are part of a community of emerging artists committed to developing and expanding their practice. They will participate in faculty-led conversations around the contexts that artists establish for the production and presentation of their work.
Those mountains of shadows and valleys of light is an exhibition featuring works by Anna Binta Diallo, on view at Mitchell Art Gallery from May 27 - August 8, 2025.
Exhibition Opening Reception: June 20, 7–9 PM
Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.
This exhibition has been supported by:
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, The City of Calgary, EMMEDIA, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary Boxing Club, Rogelio Boxing, Carvel Creative
