Visual arts & new media

Drop-in Sketching: Bones

Have you ever wished you could use a museum’s collections for sketching inspiration? Now’s your chance! The Royal Alberta Museum will be showcasing rarely seen museum objects to create a still-life setup for you to practice your drawing skills.    

This month to connect with the opening of their new exhibition, Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery, they are filling the studio with skeletons from a variety of creatures from their collections! 

Drop-in Sketching: Pink Paradise / All Things Pink

Have you ever wished you could use a museum’s collections for sketching inspiration? Now’s your chance! The Royal Alberta Museum will be showcasing rarely seen museum objects to create a still-life setup for you to practice your drawing skills.    

This month all the objects coming out of their collections will be pink and red! From a scarlet ibis to bubblegum pink vintage fashion, it will be a feast for the eyes. 

Drop-in Sketching is included with your RAM Admission.

Learn more: https://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/node/802

Grieve in Greenery

The Alberta Society of Artists is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Grieve in Greenery” featuring the work of Alberta artist Gillian Coulton. About her work, Gillian writes: “The tangled connections between memory, place, and personal history are often difficult to describe, my practice attempts to embody the connection between memory and place. I am an artist and white settler, originally from rural Alberta, and my work explores my connections to the places around the rural landscapes where I grew up with a sense of isolation, uneasy nostalgia and personal discovery.

Rocks and Fields

The Alberta Society of Artists is pleased to present “Rocks and Fields”, a solo exhibition by Karen McCallum. "Transformation invites viewers to pause and reconnect with the power of an ever-changing land.

Vibro-Playground Fundraiser Party!

The Invisible Practice invites you to celebrate Deaf-centric creativity!

We cap off our Light+Vibrotactile exhibition with VIBRO-PLAYGROUND - an evening to connect and celebrate in community. With your ticket, the public L+V installation becomes your private playground! Get hands on, experiment a little, and discover what’s possible when Deaf-centric creativity kicks down the guardrails!

Light+Vibrotactile Public Exhibition

The Invisible Practice invites you to a playground for the senses!

The Invisible Practice proudly presents Light+Vibrotactile, a series of playfully interactive installations that will surprise and intrigue. The exhibition is free and open to the public starting January 17 until January 31, 2026.

Light+Vibrotactile, or L+V for short, is a technical exploration where we challenge ourselves to consider:

“How can the most poetic expressions of the world be conveyed through sight and touch, rather than sound?”

SHADOWLANDS Exhibition

SHADOWLANDS: an Exhibition by Cindy Bouwers
January 9 – May 30, 2025
Ambrose University, Calgary

Ambrose University is pleased to present Shadowlands, an exhibition by painter Cindy Bouwers, on view from January 9 to May 30, 2025, at Ambrose University, 150 Ambrose Circle SW, Calgary. An Opening Reception will be held on January 17 from 4:00–7:00 pm, and the public is warmly invited to attend.

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