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Here & Now - Simone Saunders
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Simone Saunders' artwork, The Messenger, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Spotlight on Arts Audiences - Wave 2 Results
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Second set of results of a long-term study on understanding Alberta arts audiences. Watch a presentation of the report.
Work of the Week selection inspired by Pink Shirt Day
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Pink Shirt Day is a significant day that raises awareness about bullying.
Work of the Week: Resting in Awareness by Gordon Harper
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The AFA will be closed for Family Day.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame
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Our Work of the Week features selected images loaned to for this touring exhibition travelling from Alberta to Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Happy Holidays from the AFA
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The AFA offices will be closed for the holidays from December 25, 2023 until January 2, 2024.
Watch: The Art of Hide Tanning - an AFA Commemorative Art Project
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See the video of The Art of Hide Tanning: commissioned Indigenous artworks featuring the traditional hide tanning process taught at Portage College.
DataLog : Art Encoded - An Emerging Curator Exhibition
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DataLog : Art Encoded fully embraces and uses the resources of the digital realm to exhibit selected artworks from the AFA Collection
Public art walking tours of Capital Boulevard on Culture Days
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AFA partnered with The Works International Visual Arts Society to offer free guided walking tours of public art during Alberta Culture Days 2017.