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The Art of Santiago Ribeiro
Date: Oct 3, 2018
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Deadline: Nov 17, 2018 - 11:00 pm
Alexis Marie Chute receives 2018 Alumni Horizon Award
Date: Sep 14, 2018
Community invited to celebrate as artist and author receives UAlberta Alumni Award on September 24.
Pumphouse Theatre: Announcing The Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery
Date: Jun 22, 2018
The Pumphouse Theatre is happy to announce the renaming of our Lobby Art Gallery to be the Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery.
Resilience - 50 Indigenous Women Artists on Billboards Coast to Coast
Date: May 4, 2018
On June 1, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) launched Resilience, a national exhibition of artworks by fifty (50) Indigenous women artists.
AFA Public Art Commission Awarded to Portage College
Date: Apr 24, 2018
This funding will be used to commission three pieces of work from Indigenous artists for MOAPPA's Celebrating New Dawn project.
UPDATE! Alberta represented in 2018 Sobey Art Award nominations
Date: Apr 24, 2018
Current Alberta resident Jordan Bennett made the shortlist! Alberta born artists Hannah Doerksen and Elif Saydam were nominated for long list.
Work of the Week: 3 artworks in memoriam
Date: Feb 22, 2018
We lost three artists represented in the AFA collection in February 2018. This week we feature artworks by all three artists in their memory.
Adrian Stimson awarded 2018 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts
Date: Feb 21, 2018
Adrian Stimson, a multidisciplinary artist based in Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation, Alberta, is a recipient of the 2018 GGArts Awards.
"Canadian musicians" in Denmark
Date: Dec 10, 2017
Sculptor from Calgary creates a public art piece for a beautiful town of Skovby in Denmark.
Redpoll Centre Public Art Commission
Date: Nov 23, 2017
Arts Council Wood Buffalo in partnership with the Alberta Foundations for the Arts has unveiled a new commission by local artist Lucie Bause.