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Saturated: AUArts and Contextual Summer Residency Exhibition 2026
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DEADLINE: September 4, 2026 - 5:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: August 15 - September 4, 2026
Open Reception: Friday, August 14, 2026 from 6 to 8pm
Location: Alberta University of the Arts, Gallery 371 and Lower Main Mall (open to the public)
Calgary, AB
Hours: Monday - Friday: 8am-8pm, Saturday: 8am - 5pm, Sunday: closed
Saturated is a group exhibition presented in partnership with the Contextural Fibre Arts Society, whose summer residency takes place alongside the AUArts Summer Residency. As the culminating exhibition for both residency programs, Saturated brings together artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, fostering community, collaboration, and creative exchange across a wide range of practices. The 2026 AUArts Summer Residency offers artists the opportunity to immerse themselves in their creative practice through sustained access to the university's studios and facilities. Over the course of ten weeks, artists pursue independent projects united by a shared commitment to experimentation, exploration, and making. The title Saturated reflects this state of creative immersion, where ideas, materials, and processes accumulate, overlap, and evolve through sustained engagement. Featuring works in canvas, clay, paper, fabric, video, and other media, the exhibition presents a range of practices from experimental investigations and works in progress to fully realized pieces. Together, the works reveal the outcomes of intensive studio practice while highlighting the relationships that emerge through shared creative experiences. Saturated invites viewers to experience the density of ideas, colour, texture, and process cultivated throughout the summer, celebrating the curiosity, persistence, and spirit of discovery that define the residency experience.
For more information, visit www.auarts.ca/exhibition/saturated-auarts-summer-residency-exhibition-2026